Every patient who comes into our office is unique, with individual concerns, goals, and needs for their health and wellness. That is why at Harbour Direct Primary Care, there is no “one-size-fits-all” treatment for enhancing your natural beauty and improving your skin health.
In this blog, we talk about our various options for facial contouring in Jamestown, RI, how each one works, and how to determine which combination of treatments is best for your skin.
What is facial contouring?
Facial contouring refers to treatments that help tighten skin, add volume, and accentuate the natural shape of your face. As you age, your skin makes less and less collagen and elastin. Your body naturally makes these proteins to keep your muscles, skin, and tissue flexible.
You make more of these proteins when you are a child, preventing the development of stretch marks and scars as we grow into adults. But at around 20 years old, your body slowly decreases how much collagen and elastin it produces.
While this is happening, your bones also begin to lose precious calcium and minerals, shrinking and weakening them. This can make the bone structure in your face shrink and reduce the volume of your features, causing your skin to sag, creating wrinkles and fine lines.
With facial contouring in Jamestown, we offer both noninvasive and minimally invasive treatments to help restore volume, tighten sagging skin, and more! Often, our patients combine multiple treatments into a personalized treatment plan that fits their needs.
Our Facial Contouring Treatments
When creating your personalized treatment plan, you will go over all your options. Your provider determines the best options based on your specific needs. Here are the basics when it comes to our facial contouring treatments:
Clear RF
Exion Clear RF is the latest treatment for facial contouring in Jamestown, RI. This device uses 64 ultra-fine pins that reach a depth of 0.2mm to gently ablate the skin. In other words, it removes the dead and damaged skin cells that live in our epidermis (the uppermost layer of your skin).
At the same time, this device emits waves of radiofrequency (RF) energy to warm the skin, stimulating your body’s healing response without causing injury. In response, your body increases collagen and elastin production to heal your skin.
While this treatment is specifically designed for pigmentation, it provides additional benefits because of the improvements it makes to your skin’s overall health, including sagging skin and wrinkles!
| Procedure Time | Sessions Needed | Numbing needed? | Downtime? | Results Duration |
| 10 to 30 minutes | 1 to 6 | Yes | 48 to 72 hours | 6 to 12 months |
Emface Noninvasive Facelift
Emface noninvasive facelift also uses radiofrequency energy, along with high-intensity facial electric stimulation (HIFES) energy. This combination helps to rebuild muscle tone that has been lost to the natural aging process.
The HIFES energy emits small electromagnetic currents to create over 11,000 muscle contractions in your face within a 30-minute session. By contracting rapidly, Emface increases your facial muscles’ overall mass and strength. This results in increased muscle mass, adding volume and lifting your facial features.
While your muscles are receiving HIFES energy, they simultaneously receive heat from RF energy to stimulate collagen and elastin production. This not only improves the quality and appearance of your skin, but also maintains the added volume accomplished with the HIFES energy. It can also reduce the appearance of jowls and sagging skin around the neck!
| Procedure Time | Sessions Needed | Numbing needed? | Downtime? | Results Duration |
| 20 minutes | 4 to 6 | None | None | Up to a year |
Emface Double Chin Reductions
Our clients love Emface because it is a versatile treatment for facial contouring in Jamestown, RI. If you choose to, your provider can place a separate applicator under your chin where stubborn fat lives.
The Emface Submentum applies high-frequency RF energy and HIFES (high-intensity focused electric energy) to your submental (chin) area. The heat generated during this double chin treatment is a few degrees warmer than our skin treatments, but should still be comfortable and not require numbing. The reason is because the device needs to reach the subcutaneous layer of skin where fat lives. Alongside the heat, the HIFES stimulates muscle contractions that also help to melt fat and improve muscle tone.
Emface double chin treatment also uses thermal lipolysis to reduce the amount of fat under your chin. Thermal lipolysis uses the fact that when an area of skin experiences heat, fat cells die at lower temperatures (109° to 112° Fahrenheit) than skin (112°+). So treatments like Emface Submentum leverage this fact against fat cells, which permanently destroys them for a slimmer and more contoured appearance to your jawline and chin.
| Procedure Time | Sessions Needed | Numbing needed? | Downtime? | Results Duration |
| 20 minutes | 4 to 6 | None | None | Up to a year |
Microneedling
Microneedling is a minimally invasive treatment for facial contouring in Jamestown, RI. This treatment uses small needles to create micro-channels within your skin anywhere between 0.25mm to 2.5 mm deep into your epidermis and dermis. This causes your body to start its natural healing process without actually damaging your skin
To heal these micro-injuries, your body naturally increases collagen and elastin production. These proteins help keep your skin flexible, create healthier skin cells, and minimize the appearance of wrinkles, scarring, or hyperpigmentation.
| Procedure Time | Sessions Needed | Numbing needed? | Downtime? | Results Duration |
| 1 hour | Minimum of 3 | Yes | 24 to 48 hours | Up to a year |
The Facial Contouring Process
The process varies among all of our patients since we have highly customized treatment plans, but here are the general steps you can expect when it comes to facial contouring in Jamestown, RI.
Consultation
First, you meet directly with one of our physicians for a 1-on-1 consultation. During this time, they listen to your concerns and your goals for your health and wellness. They ask about your medical history, including medical conditions and medications you take.
All of this information helps them decide which treatments would be most beneficial to you. Once they have an idea of your best options, they talk through each one with you, explaining how they work. Then together, you create a personalized treatment plan.
Treatment
You may only need to undergo 1 treatment for facial contouring in Jamestown, or you may need multiple to accomplish your goals. No matter what you need, we can guarantee that our experienced and dedicated physicians provide all the tools, knowledge, and resources you need to make educated decisions about your care. They make sure you are as comfortable as possible before and during treatments, and prepare you to care for your skin after.
Results
Once you finish with your first session, your physician helps you schedule any remaining sessions in your body contouring series. They also provide post-care instructions that help you improve and maintain your results. Then, once you finish your full treatment series, your physician compares your results to your goals to see if you need additional services.
Care Instructions
Many of our facial contouring treatments use radiofrequency energy to help tighten skin and improve complexion. Since they use the same technology, a lot of them have the same pre-care and post-care instructions. While your physician gives you more detailed instructions, here are the basics you need to improve your results.
Pre-Care Instructions
- Avoid exposing your skin to direct sunlight for at least 1 week. Instead, apply mineral-based sunscreen that has at least 30 SPF whenever going outside and reapply every 2 to 3 hours.
- Drink plenty of water before your treatment to keep your body hydrated and help speed up the healing process.
- Refrain from using tobacco products or drinking alcohol for at least 48 hours before undergoing your facial contouring treatment.
Post-Care Instructions
- Do not undergo other skin or exfoliating treatments for at least 4 to 6 weeks after getting facial contouring.
- Continue wearing a minimum of 30 SPF sunscreen for at least 1 week after getting facial contouring.
- Avoid drinking alcohol or using tobacco products for at least 48 hours.
Feel Confident in Your Complexion
There’s no reason to let wrinkles or other common skin concerns impact your confidence. You can improve your natural beauty using our facial contouring treatments at Harbour Direct.
Start your journey today by either requesting an appointment with one of our expert team members or using our complimentary treatment planning tool to find the best options for your care. No matter what, our physicians make sure you have everything you need to be successful!
