Body by Thermage Seattle
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Until now, Thermage has only been used successfully for treating facial and neck laxity. Body Thermage has produced phenomenal results for many patients.
Seattle Washington
 

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If you are suffering from loose body skin due to weight loss, having children, or aging, your options for reversing these unattractive areas are pretty limited. Surgical answers to these issues are liposuction and body contouring, depending on the severity of each individual case.

What if you're not ready for full blown surgery and don't have the time to recover or the funds to finance that kind of work?

Body Thermage has been very successful as an alternative to surgery for tightening aging skin with no incisions, no scars, and no downtime in the vast majority of cases.

For years, Thermage has been used for non-surgical brow lifts and the non-surgical tightening of facial wrinkles on the forehead, around the eye, the mid and lower face, and the neck. New applications of Thermage to the body led to FDA approval for such use, allowing for the tightening of loose body skin, arms, legs, abdomen and buttocks. The procedure itself is administered in office, lasting from minutes to just over an hour depending on the area treated. About an hour before the procedure, a topical numbing agent is applied some oral medication is administered to assist with anxiety and make the procedure more comfortable.

The radio frequency (RF) energy uniformly heats the dermis while cooling and protecting the epidermis. The top layers of your skin are protected with a cooling spray while radio frequency energy heats the collagen in the lower layers.

This heating action causes deep structures of your skin to tighten immediately. Over time, new collagen grows to further tighten your skin and produce a more youthful appearance. Recently published studies, conducted by Thermage, show that measurable tightening improvements appear gradually over 2 to 6 months after a single treatment session. However, many patients report seeing an earlier response.

Who is the optimal candidate for this procedure?

An ideal candidate for Thermage a woman or man with loose, bagging skin, who wishes to tighten up those areas. These people may have lost a lot of weight, with resulting sagging skin, and they may wish to avoid surgery.

Body by Thermage offers an excellent non-surgical technique to tighten loose, sagging skin in areas of the neck, abdomen, love handles, back skin, thighs, and upper arms. Results are good across a wide range of ages, and the Thermage is color blind - meaning that it is wholly suitable for all skin types.

Body by Thermage has been used successfully as a non invasive tummy tuck for women who have excess skin following pregnancy or weight loss and who do not want to undergo abdominoplasty, or tummy tuck surgery.

Body Thermage in Seattle Washington

Victor R. Michalak, MD

Over the years, Dr. Michalak has performed thousands of cosmetic surgery procedures. The expressions of happiness on the faces of our patients, as well as their spoken words of thanks and their written letters of gratitude, are all testaments to how delighted they are with their results.

He performs only those cosmetic surgery procedures which he knows are safe, and with which he is thoroughly familiar. Using the latest, state-of-the-art techniques and equipment, he is able to achieve optimal aesthetic results while vastly reducing the potential for any undesirable side effects.

Dr. Michalak regularly attends numerous prestigious Cosmetic Surgery medical meetings each year, to continually expand his depth of knowledge and update his skills in cosmetic surgery and dermatologic surgery.

He was the first physician to introduce Cosmetic Laser Skin Resurfacing to the Northwest. He brings to this treatment 16 years of experience in laser resurfacing surgery.

Dr. Michalak was among the first doctors in the country to perform Tumescent Liposuction, having been personally trained by the physician who invented this technique, also a Dermatologist. Further, he was the first in our area to offer Botox treatments for facial wrinkles and frown lines.

Consistent with his high standards for excellence, Dr. Michalak provides his patients with fully-equipped and staffed, modern and comfortable, outpatient surgery suites, that are accredited and nationally certified.

Widely recognized as an expert in the complexities of the skin and related surgery, Dr. Michalak has frequently been interviewed by the media, appearing on the news programs of KING-TV and KOMO TV, "Evening Magazine" in Seattle and Portland, and in the Journal American; as well as in nationally-syndicated news reports televised around the country.

You can feel confident knowing that Dr. Michalak and his staff are the consummate professionals for whom attaining the best possible cosmetic results for you is the highest priority.

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