SMOOTHLASE Facial Rejuvenation Cherry Hill

What Is Smoothlase?

Smoothlase is a non-surgical, non-invasive procedure that uses a fractionalized (broken up into a grid pattern) laser to direct the body's own natural healing process to tighten, tone, and lift sagging and wrinkled skin around the mouth, chin, lip, and face areas. It reduces light to medium wrinkling and improves skin tone by bringing back elasticity, giving you a more youthful appearance and glow. After you turn back the clock, maintaining the results through diet, lifestyle, and occasional touch-ups prevents future signs of aging.

The treatment is applied from inside the mouth without disturbing the skin surface. Smoothlase specifically targets the deep structural skin tissues that contain collagen. Unlike dermatological lasers, which penetrate the skin from the outside, Smoothlase tightens and lifts your skin non-invasively from the inside out. Renewed collagen helps maintain the tissue tone, softness, moisture levels, and healthy coloration of your face and lips while also preventing wrinkle formation.

How Does Smoothlase Work?

The laser treatment warms the targeted tissues in a grid pattern that causes:

1. Conversion of irregular, broken-down collagen into its more youthful form of years past. This is called remodeling.
2. Activating fibroblast cells to make brand-new collagen in your face and lips.

A loss of collagen is the main cause of skin aging, wrinkles, scarring, uneven skin tone, dry skin, and poor skin texture. When healthy collagen is present in sufficient amounts, your skin has nutritional support and retains its plumpness, smoothness, and tightness.

How Much Smoothlase Treatment Do You Need?

Treatment is age-based, and in general, one treatment per 10 years of age works well. For example, a 40-year-old would require 4 treatments about 3 weeks apart. Treatments are given 3 weeks apart to allow the new collagen time to develop. Collagen continues to be formed for about one month after the last treatment.

Who Is Smoothlase NOT For?

Smoothlase is not for people expecting the overdone look of several famous actors, models, artists, and influencers. It is also not for those wanting the instantaneous results of injectable dermal fillers. Smoothlase offers a natural, longer-lasting de-aging process for your face, returning it to an earlier period of your life. It is the opposite of dermal fillers and Botox/Dysport/Xeomin. With those injectables, the healthier you are, the faster their effects wear off as part of your natural healing process. With Smoothlase, the healthier you are, the longer it lasts.

The Benefits of Smoothlase

• No downtime-- go about your daily routine immediately after treatment
• No foreign substances
• No radical changes
• Healthy rejuvenation on the inside
• Noticeable, gradual effect on the outside
• Short in-office procedure
• Stimulates collagen that builds over time well past your treatment
• Lifts and tightens skin around the mouth, face, chin, along the jawline, and under the eyes
• A nice alternative to surgery
• No pre-treatment preparation
• No post-treatment requirements or medications

How Does Smoothlase Treatment Feel?

A patient’s comfort will vary depending on their sensitivity and the treatment location. Generally, there may be some feeling of heat toward the lip area since it is loaded with nerves. This is what stimulates collagen growth. Most areas of the face will feel nothing beyond a little warmth, especially as treatment progresses throughout the session. Any tingling, tenderness, or slight swelling is also normal, mild, and temporary in nature.

How to Maintain Your Smoothlase Results

You can help keep your post-treatment results by avoiding the things that damage your skin, i.e. cause collagen breakdown, such as:

• UV Radiation (avoid turning pink or red, no sunburning)
• Tanning
• Dietary Toxins
• Smoking
• Excessive Alcohol (1 or 2 drinks a day is OK to keep your cortisol levels down though!)
• Prescription Drugs Which Dehydrate You
• Poor Diet (Low in antioxidants like Vitamins C, E, A, Biotin, Selenium, Lutein, and Lycopene)

After your course of treatment is completed, Dr. Lee advises a collagen booster every 6 months. How fast your collagen re-ages depends upon your overall health, habits, and lifestyle. Remember, prevention can save you time and money in most aspects of your life. So once you go through your rejuvenation, be sure to maintain it!