What Can Esthetic HIFU Do? How It Differs from Medical HIFU, and Our Recommended Treatments

HIFU treatment is a beauty treatment said to deliver a small-face effect and improvement in sagging and skin quality. With almost no downtime and the benefit of being able to wear makeup right after, it’s a treatment growing in popularity in many places. When considering treatment, you may wonder what differences exist between esthetic HIFU received at an esthetic salon and medical HIFU received at a cosmetic surgery clinic.
This time, we detail the benefits you can expect from HIFU treatment and the differences between esthetic HIFU and medical HIFU. We also introduce our recommended treatments at KADOMORI, so please use this as a reference.

What Benefits Can You Expect from HIFU?

HIFU is a treatment that uses the thermal energy emitted from high-density ultrasound. By radiating this energy into the muscle layer beneath the subcutaneous tissue, beauty benefits like a small-face effect and improved sagging can be expected. Furthermore, since thermal energy acts on the skin tissue, promoting production of collagen — also called a beauty-skin component — can also be expected.
Now let’s explain the benefits of HIFU in more detail below.

Improving Sagging

One cause of sagging is loosening of the SMAS layer (superficial musculoaponeurotic system). The SMAS layer is beneath the skin, and plays a role in supporting the expression muscles, subcutaneous fat, and skin. When this muscle layer loosens due to aging or reduced water content, it can no longer support the upper layers like the expression muscles and subcutaneous fat, affecting appearance as sagging.
HIFU approaches this SMAS layer and tightens the muscle, so effects can be expected for improving sagging. Along with improving sagging, a cleaner facial line and small-face effect can also be expected.

Improved Firmness and Elasticity

HIFU’s thermal energy promotes production of beauty-skin components like collagen and elastin, so improved skin firmness and elasticity can be expected.
Skin firmness and elasticity are said to decline as collagen and elastin production decreases and their retention capacity is lost. Various causes are behind this, including aging and disrupted lifestyle habits. Approaching only from the skin’s surface often can’t sufficiently restore skin firmness and elasticity, but HIFU treatment is an effective treatment method for improving skin from within by approaching the deep layers of the skin.

Tightening Effect

As HIFU treatment improves sagging and skin firmness and elasticity, a tightening effect can also be felt.
Furthermore, HIFU treatment is also effective for targeted fat reduction. Thermal energy destroys fat cells, and as the destroyed fat cells are expelled along with waste, a dieting effect can also be expected.

What Is Esthetic HIFU?

What characteristics does esthetic HIFU, received at an esthetic salon, have? First, let’s explain the three main characteristics of esthetic HIFU.

Short Downtime

Symptoms like redness, warmth, internal bleeding, and puffiness may appear during downtime after HIFU treatment. Downtime varies by individual, with some experiencing symptoms for several days to a week, but esthetic HIFU is characterized by having almost no downtime.

Short Treatment Time

HIFU treatment is said to have a relatively short treatment time. It varies by radiation site, but treatment time is roughly 30 to 60 minutes. It’s also recommended for those who want to receive treatment in spare moments.

Less Skin Damage

Since HIFU treatment fundamentally approaches the deep layers of the skin, it’s characterized by less damage to the skin’s surface. For this reason, there’s no need to worry about redness or wounds, and makeup is possible right after treatment.

What’s the Difference Between Esthetic HIFU and Medical HIFU?

Differences between esthetic HIFU and medical HIFU include treatment frequency and presence of pain, but among these, the major differences are machine output and treatment fees.
Medical HIFU uses high-output equipment that can only be handled by licensed professionals like doctors and nurses. For this reason, thermal energy can be efficiently delivered to the deep layers of the skin, and effects can be expected even with fewer treatment sessions. However, because of the high output, pain can accompany radiation. Also, treatment fees are often relatively high.
Esthetic HIFU, on the other hand, is performed by estheticians without medical qualifications, so output is kept lower than medical HIFU. However, having almost no pain during radiation or downtime can also be considered a benefit. Also, fees are relatively inexpensive, characterized by being easier to consider than medical HIFU.

For Esthetic HIFU, KADOMORI’s “Small-Face Design HIFU” Is Recommended!

At KADOMORI, we offer a menu called “Small-Face Design HIFU,” using our own specially developed HIFU to provide treatment tailored to each individual. Please aim for your ideal small face and beautiful skin with small-face design by professionals of facial correction technique.

Recommended For Those Like This

Small-Face Design HIFU is recommended for those who want to achieve a clean, tightened facial line or full-scale lifting, those who want to improve wrinkles and nasolabial folds, and those who’ve had a painful experience with medical HIFU. It’s also recommended for those who want to improve skin quality from deep within the skin.

Those Who Couldn’t Continue Medical HIFU Because It Hurt

Esthetic HIFU has lower stimulation than medical HIFU, so it’s characterized by less pain. Even medical HIFU, with high per-session treatment effects, becomes difficult to achieve sufficient or expected effects without continued treatment. Pain varies by individual, but esthetic HIFU treatment is recommended for those who couldn’t continue medical HIFU due to strong pain, or those anxious about medical HIFU’s pain.

Those Who Want to Aim for a Tightened Facial Line

Before HIFU treatment, we introduce small-face care tailored to each individual, selecting from cavitation, radio-frequency, or the Synchro Wave.
Combining this with HIFU treatment lets you aim for an even more tightened facial line, guiding HIFU into an even more effective treatment.

Those Who Want to Regulate the Skin’s Foundation

HIFU treatment is a treatment that approaches deep layers of the skin. At KADOMORI, we finely design the face with 1,400 HIFU shots across the whole face. Then, at the end, we also introduce beauty ingredients while calming the skin, so a better skin foundation can be created.

Troubled by Something Esthetic HIFU Might Help? Consult KADOMORI!

HIFU treatment can be expected to deliver improvement effects for skin sagging and wrinkles, plus a small-face effect from a tightening effect. The thermal energy radiated from high-density ultrasound can approach the deep muscle layer of the skin. It can be expected to promote production of beauty-skin components like collagen and elastin from within the skin, while tightening muscle to bring about a cleaner facial line and small-face effect.
Among HIFU treatments, esthetic HIFU and medical HIFU differ in output, fees, and treatment frequency. Medical HIFU, which only those with medical qualifications like doctors and nurses are permitted to perform, is characterized by high per-session treatment effects due to its high output, and low treatment frequency. However, it’s often more expensive than esthetic HIFU, and pain during treatment and downtime after treatment are also more prone to occur. Esthetic HIFU often has more affordable fees, and with almost no pain or downtime, it’s easier to continue.
KADOMORI’s “Small-Face Design HIFU” combines small-face design tailored to each individual with treatments like cavitation before HIFU radiation, further enhancing HIFU’s effects. If you’re troubled by something esthetic HIFU might help, please consult KADOMORI.

If you’re considering an esthetic salon in Daikanyama, see this article as well.

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