How is a Korean face-lift performed?
The Korean face-lift consists of inserting multiple tiny threads deeply into your skin. PDO threads are absorbable, and their principal action is stimulating collagen strands to grow at the insertion site. This creates a lifting over 3-6 months. However, because the PDO thread armours the skin, there is an immediate gentle lift, even though it is not primarily a lifting procedure. The threads can be placed across the lower face, midface, neck, and forehead above the brow. The threads are inserted along lower face vectors in specific patterns to achieve a V lift.
What is achieved with a Korean thread lift?
The Korean thread lift uses floating PDO threads to tighten the skin. Anyone can benefit from the treatment, as the collagen-stimulating effect helps prevent the progression of facial ageing. It does not have a volumising impact but can be combined with dermal fillers. You would expect to get a top-up in two years.
How Long Does the PDO Thread Lift Take?
This depends on the number of threads you require. A full-face will typically take 30–45 minutes. But you must come into the clinic a full hour beforehand to apply a numbing cream to ensure the procedure can proceed comfortably. With adequate numbing, the PDO thread lift is virtually pain-free.
PDO Thread Treatment Areas
Though the typical v-lift consists of the lower face, jawline, and midface threads, any facial area can be treated.
- Brow Lift: only subtle; you may wish to consider a thread lift for more dramatic results.
- Midface Lift: Aptos Threadlift likewise can provide more dramatic lifting
- Jawline Lift: best performed with lifting threads to achieve a non-surgical jowl lift, can be combined with jawline filler and Nefertiti Lift
- A neck lift is subtle for more advanced sagging Aptos threads or neck lifts.
- Inner Thigh: for sagging
- Upper inner arm: for sagging and wrinkling.
- Complete non-surgical face-lift combining PDO threads with biostimulator filler injections, lasers, and other injectables.
Korean Thread Lift Recovery
- Bruising and swelling are common (you are getting lots of tiny threads inserted)
- Swelling can last 2–5 days.
- Bruising lasts up to 7 days.
- Your face will be tender the next day and maybe up to a week afterwards.