She also explains why it takes about six weeks to see the full effects.
#WHAT IS PDO THREAD LIFT SKIN#
It literally comes in, it creates a little bit of scar tissue because as you're moving, those threads are kind of pushing themselves back and forth and they're creating that little bit of scar tissue, which is what's causing that tightening, that hugging of the face is what you feel like your skin is doing," says Kearns.įOR THE LATEST NEWS UPDATES, DOWNLOAD THE FOX 26 NEWS APP It's not something where you'll see somebody gets a massive amount of swelling, or they have a serious reaction from it. Because the material that's being used is so safe. "My favorite part about it is that I have never had anybody that's had a reaction to it. "I was putting a foreign body into my face because I thought they would hurt, but neither thing really happened," smiles Barbi. At first, Barbi admits she was a little nervous about it. Those threads are made out of the same material as dissolvable sutures. There are people with sagging skin, so we're able to go in and lift," states Katina Kearns, Clinical Director at Renew Body Contouring and Medical Spa.
I have a lot of clients who get real deep lines, the worry lines along the forehead, and we're able to go underneath those lines and get right in between those cracks and crevices and fill in that volume so that those lines are gone.
There are smooth threads that can go in to help clients. "They're actually molded to be in like the form of a barb, so that way when they're inserted, they are able to grab a hold of the tissue and pull the tissue up or down, whichever direction, but most want to go up, obviously. A thread lift involves everything but a typical type of thread. She chose this method, versus going under the knife. She started by getting her face resurfaced then underwent a PDO thread lift, while she was awake.