Welcome to Harbour Direct Primary Care, your home for both primary care and aesthetics.
Our team uses the latest technology to not only enhance your appearance, but also improve how you feel. Because we know that addressing both is the key to achieving whole-body health and wellness.
That is why our team loves offering Emface near Newport, RI. Emface noninvasive facelift delivers a lifting effect to your features, creating a more youthful profile without the need for needles or surgery. It can also help to improve the quality of your skin and the tone of your facial muscles, delivering long-lasting results.
Here, we’ll share everything you need to know about Emface, including how it works, who is the best candidate, and how long you can expect results to last.
How It Works
Emface works by combining HIFES (high-intensity facial electric stimulation) and radiofrequency. The HIFES energy stimulates muscle contractions—roughly 75,000 in one 20-minute session. This helps strengthen the tone of your facial muscles, lifting your features to reduce sagging skin and wrinkles.
While this happens, Emface also delivers radiofrequency to the skin, heating it to between 104 to 107 degrees Fahrenheit. This stimulates your body’s natural healing response, which increases collagen and elastin production.
Collagen and elastin are two proteins that your body naturally produces, and they are responsible for creating healthy, “stretchy” skin. When your skin heals from an injury, these proteins help heal the wound and restore your tissues.
By heating your skin with radiofrequency thermal energy, Emface essentially “tricks” your body into believing it’s been injured without actually causing surface damage to the skin. This allows you to enjoy the benefits of increased collagen and elastin without experiencing any lengthy downtime or side effects.
Emface Submentum
Another attachment to the Emface treatment allows you to target unwanted fat under the chin. Emface Submentum removes the HIFES energy and instead increases the temperature of the radiofrequency by just a few degrees. This allows the heat to reach deeper into your skin into the subdermal layer of your skin where unwanted fat is found. This triggers thermolipolysis, where heat melts the fat cells under the skin without causing damage to the surrounding tissue.
At around 109 to 113 degrees, fat cells experience apoptosis (cell death), which is a lower temperature than it takes to damage skin, tissue, and muscle cells. This heat causes the membranes of the cells to break, essentially destroying the fat cell, which your lymphatic system will then dispose of. Although this is a different treatment, we use the same device and can easily complete it during the same appointment.
Treatment Details
| Appointment Length | Downtime | Numbing? | Sessions Needed |
| 20 minutes | None | None | 4 to 6 |
The Emface Process
The Emface process is fairly straightforward since it’s noninvasive and requires no downtime. Here is what you can expect when you visit our team for Emface near Newport, RI.
Consultation
Your first appointment with our team will be a consultation with one of our expert providers. They’ll take the time to learn about your specific concerns, goals, and your medical history. Once they have a thorough understanding of your needs, your provider will talk with you about your options for treatment, working to curate a specific care plan that helps you achieve your goals.
Treatment
Each Emface session takes only 20 minutes, and while there is heat, patients describe it as a comfortable, painless heat. Your provider will cleanse your skin and place the Emface applicators. You will feel your facial muscles contracting once the treatment begins, but should otherwise be comfortable during your session.
Results
You will undergo 4 to 6 sessions of Emface, each spaced about 1 week apart. You’ll start seeing initial results just a few weeks after your first appointment of Emface near Newport, RI, but will continue to see improvements with each session, until you see full results 6 to 12 weeks after your last treatment.
Maintenance
While your results with Emface can be long lasting, they will not be permanent. You will need maintenance sessions to extend the duration of your results. We typically recommend getting a maintenance treatment every 3 to 6 months, but a healthy lifestyle, well-rounded skincare routine, and consistent sunscreen usage can help keep your skin looking strong and healthy for longer.
Pre- & Post-Care
At Harbour Direct Primary Care, we want you to get the most from your treatment, so we provide patients with pre-care and post-care instructions that will help improve your results and make them last longer. Here are the instructions your provider will give you for Emface near Newport, RI.
Pre-Care Instructions
- Avoid exposing your skin to direct sunlight. Wear a minimum of SPF 30 sunscreen when going outdoors for 1 week before your appointment.
- Do not receive other heat or laser treatments at least 4 weeks before your Emface appointment.
- Arrive to your appointment with a clean face free of makeup or any other skin products.
- Drink plenty of water on the day of treatment to ensure your body is properly hydrated.
Post-Care Instructions
- Continue wearing a minimum of SPF 30 sunscreen when going outdoors to protect your skin from UV damage.
- Avoid exposing your skin to hot environments like hot tubs, hot showers, or saunas for 3 to 4 days.
- Do not undergo irritating skin treatments or use irritating products for at least 1 week after receiving Emface.
- Continue drinking plenty of water in the days after treatment if you receive Emface. We typically recommend drinking half your body weight in ounces of water each day.
Paired Treatments
What makes Emface popular for many of our patients at Harbour Direct is that it pairs well with many of our other offered services. While your provider will customize the treatments included in your care plan to your individual needs, here is what we typically pair with Emface near Newport, RI.
Botox
Botox is one of the most widely known aesthetic treatments. This injectable uses small, refined doses of botulinum toxin type A to temporarily limit the movement within targeted facial muscles. These muscle movements are what cause dynamic wrinkles, so limiting their movement helps reverse and prevent wrinkles.
When you pair Botox with Emface, you target both dynamic and static wrinkles, creating the ultimate wrinkle treatment while supporting your skin’s health.
Microneedling
Microneedling uses small needles to create micro-wounds within your skin. This stimulates your body’s natural healing response, increasing your production of collagen and elastin without causing much damage to your skin.
Emface pairs well with microneedling because it increases the benefits of your microneedling treatment. Microneedling stimulates collagen and elastin production, but pairing it with Emface multiplies the amount of collage and elastin your body produces, creating healthy, glowing skin.
Clear RF
Clear RF is the latest skin treatment available. It uses small pins and radiofrequency to gently remove dead and damaged skin cells, and stimulates your body’s natural production of collagen and elastin to create a healthier, smoother complexion.
Clear RF pairs well with Emface near Newport, RI, because together, they can double your body’s collagen and elastin production for even better results for your skin.
Emsculpt NEO
We can’t forget treatments that pair with Emface Submentum! Emface Submentum uses heat to melt the specific pocket of fat under your chin. Emsculpt NEO uses similar technology to accomplish the same goal, except it can target stubborn fat all over your body. Additionally, it can help build muscle by using HIFEM (high-intensity focused electromagnetic) energy to stimulate over 20,000 muscle contractions!
When it comes to body sculpting, pairing Emsculpt NEO and Emface Submentum helps target stubborn fat all over.
Frequently Asked Questions
Our team emphasizes education in our care, ensuring our patients have the knowledge and resources to make the best decisions for their health and wellness. Here are some of the most commonly asked questions we hear about Emface near Newport, RI, and our answers!
Can I wear makeup after getting Emface?
While you can apply makeup immediately after your Emface appointment, we typically recommend waiting a few hours after treatment to allow the heat and redness to dissipate from your skin.
Why do I need to drink water for Emface Submentum?
The reason you need to drink water before and after receiving Emface Submentum is because it damages your fat cells, causing them to be naturally removed from your body through the lymphatic system. Your lymphatic system is greatly affected by how much water you drink, so it’s important to stay properly hydrated to see quick and effective results.
Why doesn’t Emface melt fat on my face, only under my chin?
Facial fat helps maintain a youthful, plump complexion. So while Emface Submentum uses increased heat to melt fat and reduce the appearance of a “double chin,” Emface lowers the temperature to keep the fat in your face, but still enhance your body’s production of collagen and elastin.
Face the Day Confidently
With Emface, you can wake up every day feeling confident in how your skin looks and feels. You can either use our complementary aesthetic treatment planner or request an appointment with one of our expert providers to see if you should get Emface near Newport, RI.
