facial threads

❤️ I’m asked all the time about threads.

I was introduced to Thread Lifting in approx 2010.

✅ Contour Threads, as they were known, were subsequently removed from the market, the firm went into liquidation, and NEW ones Arrived – they were HORRIBLE THREADS with HORRIBLE COMPLICATIONS.

✅ They have got better and safer but need to be used in the right situation.

✅ Threads come in many forms: PDO, Barbed, and different materials. I’ve tried them all.

✅ Do I like them – NO, and the studies back up my findings in clinical practice too?

✅ They do not replace a Facelift. NO.

✅ There is a little lifting at one month, but the “little lifting has gone at one year.

✅ They are invasive, and with these procedures, this study showed that 34% of patients had complications.

⏰Complications – that’s a lot

  • Erythema
  • Swelling
  • Thread protrusion
  • Infection
  • Puckering

and most of all, an unsatisfactory outcome in the patient’s eyes.

I agree with these findings.

✅ Threads are TEMPORARY.

✅ Threads are expensive.

✅ Threads don’t last after one year (even with a bit of lifting).

In fact, I think some of my old videos still exist on YouTube.

❤️ So I started the week declining to do an Expert Report on threads, but it made me update my knowledge and do an update on research. So, I’ve shared it with you.

❤️ Maybe you have had a good experience, but for me, as a practitioner “threads never replace that of surgery’, and sometimes, patients don’t want to hear that.

❤️ Sometimes the truth hurts, but I end the consultation knowing I provided the correct advice, and it’s better to have no patient than an unsatisfied one.

❤️ Karen (whom I have worked with for 19 years) agrees too.

We will leave them to someone else, but better still tell the patient to forget them altogether.

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