hi i'm dr johnny thanks for joining me
for raji's quick clip
i'm answering the question from one of
our viewers what is a smooth
thread i thought that was a great
question because we're always talking
about barb threads we're talking about
all the different types of threads we
show pictures
but what is a smooth thread and why is
it different than
a coil or a twist or a barb thread what
are the materials
we're going to go through a very quick
clip on this on a raji's quick clip
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so smooth threads you know you don't
often hear them talked about because
when clinics are marketing threads or
people want it
they're thinking facelift and they're
thinking oh i'll do a non-surgical
facelift or
a thread lift instead of getting surgery
and they're two different things the
thread lift is not
surgery doesn't take the place of
surgery if you have
excess skin you might need surgery first
or
surgery and then a few years down the
road to fine tune it then you can use
the threads
or people just want a subtle result
you're going to do a thread lift quote
unquote
so the smooth threads they get kind of
put by the wayside
and unfairly so because there are lasers
for skin glow
people do chemical peels people do skin
care but
skin glow achieved with smooth threads
is amazing now a couple reasons one is
we're providing structure and support
because the smooth thread goes in
and what it means is it's a straight
smooth
thread is in the diagram here it's just
a smooth long thread that we put in
as opposed to the diagram here showing
the little barbs that we're hooking
osteocutaneous ligaments or facial
ligaments on to
provide lift the smooth threads some
people say well i got a nice lift from a
smooth thread
it's the collagen production so like
sculptor if you watch my videos on
sculptor we inject sculptor in the face
has small molecules in it
fertilizer for the face so you build
collagen this is a
thread of collagen builder of a material
so smooth threads give glow because
they're giving you collagen
the smooth threads can build a nice mess
mesh and
especially when we cross them to support
the skin
and of course collagen and stimulated
skin
looks better the collagen you can
produce last months
if not years and they're fairly easy to
put these smooth threads
in what won't they do you're not going
to get this instant
big jacked up lip like you can with a
strong barb
or better yet molded thread but over
time just like sculptor builds collagen
you get a lifting from that now i put
threads in for the oral commissure and
the angle of the mouth and you can watch
my videos here and
getting rid of jowls your homework for
this video is going to be watching my
barb five
uh video and that's on the eye so you
get an idea
what a the brand new technology of barb
threads can do
for say a cat eye that demonstrates so
clearly
the lift that you can get that's not
what smooths are and i do do smooths
around the barbs
or i'll just do smooths to smooth the
skin out
but you're not going to get that big
lift of the lateral edge that the
younger generation want what
are you going to get you're going to get
smooth
areas and a lack of wrinkles
so you don't have to worry about
wrinkles above the eye here where we do
not want to put botox
or or things that stop muscle movement
that droop us
so that's a great use of threads smile
lines wonderful use of threads
oral commas sure you won't get it jacked
up but you're going to get
the collagen building and a lot of
people will say oh the edge of my mouth
looks better
you don't create a lot of volume with
them it's not a gel
filler it's not going to create the
volume of sculpture so if i have to put
in
you know if you're thinking of 100
threads
to create volume you're better off with
plasma sculpt that's going to be
platelet-rich vibrance sculptor to get
your volume
help your skin texture and tone first
you can fine tune with threads
there are areas that are dangerous more
dangerous than others to put filler
where you get occlusion blindness and
those types of things and
threads in many cases do not have that
side effect profile like the fillers do
so there's a safety factor in that so it
sounds complex but
smooth threads go in and they do all
those things the best thing is to find a
great provider they'll look at you
they'll recommend combinations almost
for certain
and most people should treat the whole
face not just sections
where the smooth should go where the
barbs go where the sculpture should go
where the fillers should go
where the botox-like products go in a
mix and match
to get the perfect safety profile and
results
that you want to get so i hope that
helps that smooth threads are
underutilized a lot
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