hi guys welcome back to the channel so over the next few weeks we're going to be doing
a series of special videos looking specifically at thread lifting
now i know previously i've said that i'm not a fan of thread lifting and i even said on a video
a couple of years ago that it's not something that i would do anymore i literally despise
doing the treatment simply i hate doing them however times change people change things change
and recently we've been using a new type of thread which has come over from norway
called Nordyx so what's the difference between these threads and the older type of threads
Euan well these threads are made of two separate materials combined one of them is poly-L-lactic
acid and one of them is polycaprolacton both of these materials individually have been used in
theaters for operations as a suture material for a really long time so we know that they're safe
to use within the skin so why has this company decided to combine the two materials together
well the poly-L-lactic acid threads tended to be quite stiff and brittle
and were quite prone to breaking when inserted into the skin which obviously you don't want
also the PDO threads which were also popular don't have very good longevity so in terms of longevity
why are these threads better the studies have shown that this particular material retains a lot
more of its lifting capacity so almost twice that of PDO threads also the degradation of the thread
itself seems to be very very minimal even at 32 weeks so what does that mean for our patients
well if you're using a thread to lift the face called a suspension thread it means you're going
to get a lift for a lot longer than you would have with PDO if you're using the threads for something
like skin improvement if the thread is staying in the tissues for longer as your body breaks
it down slowly it's building its own collagen elastin hyaluronic acid so your skin is going to
look better because you're getting that collagen stimulation for a lot longer time
so in this particular brand there are lots and lots of different types of thread and we've got
lots of different applications for them in this particular video we're going to be looking at mid
and lower face lifting using suspension threads so broadly speaking you're either gonna have a thread
that's loaded onto a cannula or onto a double needle they're pretty different and they're used
for slightly different things we'll use a cannula thread to usually lift the mid face the cheek area
and we'll use a double needle to lift the lower face and try and help with the jowling and we're
going to show you some clips of that in a second we're using a cannula here because it's blunt on
the end as you can see there is an entry point but no exit point with this particular brand there are
lots of different lengths of thread mounted on different sizes of cannula and we select the
length and diameter of the thread according to the area which we're trying to treat the double needle
is very similar to the Silhouette Soft which was also mounted as a thread with two needles
on either end of it so the technique is not too dissimilar than that of using Silhouette Soft
however i have found that when inserting this particular brand's double-ended needle it
travels through the tissue a lot more easily than the Silhouette Soft did and that's because of the
size and shape of the cogs around the thread the thread is actually designed to have these
three-dimensional cogs which wind their way around the thread in the helical pattern and they're
designed to lift and basically suspend the tissues that they're engaged with why is that important
well linking everything back to our aging process our cheek fat tends to shrink and our skin tends
to get a little bit more loose and drop down so we're really just redistributing that tissue
back up where it used to be for the full result from this type of thread it actually takes about
six months and that's because of the collagen stimulation which you'll experience post-treatment
however you can see that there will be quite a good immediate improvement even so one thing
to really bear in mind when you're getting a suspension thread lift is that we over correct
the tissues to begin with because we're expecting them to drop a little bit they shouldn't drop back
to their original position or if we wouldn't do the treatment of course but we may over correct
slightly to begin with to expect that to happen so don't be alarmed if things are a little bit
tighter when you first have the treatment than you might expect one of the things i didn't like about
using silhouette or some of the longer sutures was that often you'd get a flattening of the mid cheek
so instead of it following the curvature of the cheek and creating um more roundness here it could
sometimes make the cheek look a little bit flat so sarah is everybody suitable for a thread lift
i would say no not everyone is suitable for a thread lift if you have a lot of lower face
heaviness and laxity and you're really more of a surgical candidate you're not going to get a
good result from having threads placed you're asking too much of the treatment likewise if
somebody is too young and they don't have that mild to moderate degree of laxity there's not
really much point in placing suspension threads in them i always think of it when i see a patient
they come in and say they look in the bathroom mirror yeah and they hike the face back like
that we're not gonna get that with threads if someone's a bit more realistic and they just want
a few millimeters of lift that's something we can certainly do with threads in the right cases okay
guys so that's it for this week next week we're going to be continuing on with our thread lift
special and we're going to be talking about something which is really hot right now
which is the foxy eye look yeah so we'll see you again next week bye