triLift™

Are you ready to restore firm, youthful contours to your face without pain and the stress of hiding out while you recover? The facial rejuvenation specialists at the Springfield office of New England Dermatology & Laser Center introduce triLift from Lumenis®. It’s a nonsurgical facelift alternative that helps our Massachusetts patients tone facial muscles, tighten skin, and smooth away wrinkles with a series of relaxing medical spa treatments.

What Is a triLift Treatment?

Three main causes of facial aging are volume loss, sagging skin and tissues, and lack of collagen and elastin. triLift combines the following three advanced technologies to address these concerns:

• Dynamic muscle stimulation (DMst) tones healthy facial muscles that have weakened with age to lift the cheeks, midface, and jawline; restore facial volume; and smooth away facial folds without dermal fillers.  
• TriPollar® RF uses radiofrequency energy to heat the deeper dermal layer of the skin for increased collagen and elastin production, making the skin firmer and tighter.  
• triFX™ RF microneedling creates micro-channels in the skin with fine needles to produce fresh skin cells, collagen, and elastin that diminish wrinkles while making the skin tighter and more supple. This microneedling technology creates little to no discomfort during treatment and produces faster and more dramatic results than traditional microneedling.  

triLift Candidates

Ideal candidates are people with mild to moderate facial aging, typically in their 40s to 50s, who don’t want or need surgery and have any of the following concerns:

• Sagging of the midface, lower eyelids, jawline
• Thinning skin
• Loss of facial volume
• Wrinkles and fine lines
• Folds and creases around the mouth, such as nasolabial folds and marionette lines

Younger patients can benefit from triLift as an easy preventative treatment to delay facial aging.

What To Expect

After cleansing your skin, your esthetician applies glycerin gel to your face. The esthetician then moves the triLift handpiece over the lower face and jawline in a specified pattern to create rapid contractions in the underlying facial muscles and release RF energy into the dermal layer of the skin. You will experience a warm-to-hot sensation and twitching of the facial muscles as they contract and relax. 

The triFX RF microneedling procedure is gentle, relaxing, and requires no numbing cream, unlike other types of microneedling. The esthetician gently stamps the triFX handpiece over the skin as the fine needles create micro-channels and release RF energy into the skin.

Preparing for Your Treatment

Your skin and facial tissues need to be hydrated for optimal treatments and results, so be sure to drink plenty of water starting the day before your treatment until at least the day after.

How Many Treatments Will I Need?

Our triLift treatment protocol consists of 5 weekly appointments:

• Week 1: Dynamic muscle stimulation and TriPollar RF followed by triFX RF microneedling
• Week 2: Dynamic muscle stimulation and TriPollar RF
• Week 3: Dynamic muscle stimulation and TriPollar RF
• Week 4: Dynamic muscle stimulation and TriPollar RF followed by triFX RF microneedling
• Week 5:  Dynamic muscle stimulation and TriPollar RF

We follow up the 5 treatments with a maintenance treatment at 6 months.

Recovery

One of the best parts about triLift treatment is that no downtime is needed, so you can immediately return to your regular daily activities. RF microneedling may make the skin pink and warm, similar to a mild sunburn for 24 to 48 hours. The skin may feel slightly rough for about 5 to 7 days as the micro-channels heal. 

Results

Patients are often impressed with the changes they see after their first med spa appointment. Facial muscles continue to tighten and tone with each treatment, naturally improving your facial contours. Skin smoothing and tightening from RF microneedling begin to show after approximately 10 days and continue for up to 90 days as collagen and elastin increase.