Lift and Collagen From a Dissolving Suture
Absorbable threads placed in a specific tissue plane to reposition soft tissue and prompt new collagen along their path.
Two Effects, Arriving on Different Timelines
Polydioxanone is a surgical suture material that has been used safely for decades and is fully absorbed by the body. Placed into the subcutaneous plane, barbed threads catch tissue and hold it in a new position, which produces an immediate mechanical lift.
The second effect is slower and, in our view, the more valuable one. As the thread dissolves over months, the body lays down collagen along its path. That leaves behind structural support that persists after the thread itself is gone.
What threads do not do is remove skin. They reposition what is there. On mild to moderate laxity that is often exactly enough. On significant loose skin it is not, and stacking threads to compensate produces a pulled look rather than a lifted one.
A Good Fit If Any of This Sounds Familiar
If the honest answer is that you need surgery, you will hear it here, and we perform it.
Three Steps, Start to Finish
We Map the Vectors
Direction of pull matters more than the number of threads. This is planned on your face before anything is placed.
Placed Under Local Anesthetic
Entry points are small. Depth and plane are what separate a good result from a visible one.
We Review at Six Weeks
Swelling has settled and the collagen response is underway. That is the first fair point to judge anything.
Depth and Vector, Not Thread Count
A result people compliment and a result people can spot come from the same materials placed differently.
Tight First, Natural Later
Why a Dissolving Suture Builds Structure
Polydioxanone hydrolyses gradually in tissue. That slow breakdown provokes a controlled foreign body response in which fibroblasts migrate to the area and deposit new collagen along the thread track.
Barbed or cogged threads engage tissue mechanically so that tension applied at placement is held. The immediate lift is purely mechanical. The delayed effect is biological and outlasts the thread.
The risks worth knowing about are thread migration, visible puckering, palpability under thin skin, asymmetry and infection at entry points. Placement plane is the single biggest factor in avoiding them, which is why anatomy matters more here than the brand of thread.
What People Ask Us First
No, and be careful with that phrase. A facelift removes and repositions tissue surgically. Threads reposition without removing. For mild laxity that difference does not matter much. For significant laxity it matters entirely.
Sometimes, particularly early on and in thin skin. That usually settles as swelling resolves and tissue integrates around the thread.
Typically many months, and it varies with thread type, how many were used and your own tissue. We will give you a realistic range rather than the most appealing number.
Early on, sometimes. Once tissue has integrated around them, removal is difficult, which is an argument for conservative placement in the first place.
Often yes. Threads address position, biostimulators address volume, and energy addresses the skin envelope. Most good plans use more than one.
Often Considered Alongside This
Find Out Whether Threads Will Get You There.
They are excellent for the right degree of laxity and a poor substitute for surgery beyond it. We will tell you which you have.
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