Thread Lift is one of the most innovative, effective approach that uses either collagen thread or 24k gold thread for lifting the face, help reduce facial saggy skin and wrinkles. The method is both minimally invasive and extreme effective, especially for treating areas around the nasolabial folds.
Dr. Chiem Quoc Thai sharing expert insight on Collagen Thread Lift method
Doctor Chiem Quoc Thai transformation after undergoing collagen thread lift at Viet My Plastic Surgery Hospital.
60 year old client had facelift with double eyelid surgery, lower eyelid surgery and nasolabial fold fat injection.
60 year old customer have clear rejuvenation effect 10 days after thread lift procedure.
What are advantages of Collagen Thread Lift?.
There are several disadvantages associated with the 24k Gold Threads coming from both their materials and product design. The materials namely "Au 99 or 24k Gold" can only stimulate collagen production in a small degree, making it insufficient for treating saggy facial skin and wrinkles, they are also lack the elasticity to stretch and adapt to the facial muscle movements. After that, most of the Gold thread products in the market have small hooks that make it insufficient for the treating saggy skins. Also as some survey indicated, the gold thread can be revealed in medical radiography prevent the process of anatomical structures interpretation for diseases diagnosis.
Therefore, researchers have invented threads made from other material to resolve the mentioned issues, which is Polydioxanone or PDO. There are multiple PDO thread product available but the most advanced and efficient one are from the Croquis Thread line up launched and produced by Samyang Biopharm based in Korea.
Thread Lift process details.
The procedure is performed under local anesthesia and take less than 30 minutes to complete. It caused minimal swelling that subside quickly and the patients can come home and return to normal routine that same day.
Advantages of PDO Thread Lift and Croquis Thread Lift.
- Polydioxanone (PDO for short) is an absorbable materials with great biocompatibility and appropriate degradation time, which make it great for manufacturing many different medical devices, most notably being biodegradable sutures and implants.
- The thread made from PDO often dissolve within 2 years and stimulating collagen production at the same time. The collagen network help enhance the lifting effect further and create a firmer skins, adding volume to the face and reduce wrinkles, help rejuvenate the patient's face.
- In additional to their great biocompatibility, PDO is also having desired elasticity physical attributes, which mean that thread made from them can easily stretch and adapt to facial muscle movement. Most of PDO thread available in the market often having the sufficient barbs size, that help securing their attachment with facial tissues, maximizing the lift effect.
- Despite being a great materials, PDO thread product do vary great in quality with the best current one being Croquis produced by Samyang, which received CE Mark on its debut, and was also approved by food and drugs regulating agency across the globe, most notably the MFDS in Korea and PMDA in Japan.
- This is due to the fact that Samyang is the biggest raw PDO thread and sutures materials supplier with 80% of global market shares. They have accumulated years of state of the art researching for this product. The industrial standard test show that Croquis outperform its competitors in term of tensile and Barbs holding strength as well as durability. Which mean that thread lift treatment using this products often have greater and longer-lasting effect.
Disadvantages of Collagen thread lift.
- Due to having large barbs, the surgeons need to used a needle to insert the thread and fix its tail to the temple fascia, which leave a small scars, which will be hide within the hairline.
- Only 1% allergy rate.
What is 24k gold thread lift's advantages?.
- They achieve the same effect with PDO thread lift but with minimal collagen stimulation effect and less effective lifting effect.
- 24k gold thread is generally compatible with human body.
- 24K gold threading technique does not require making incision on the temporal skin for fixation.
Disadvantages of 24k gold thread lift.
The gold thread lift is losing is popularity due to multiple drawbacks.
- It have minimal collagen stimulating effect, which means that it will lift the muscle up but left behind saggy skins that lack volumes and firmness.
- It does not have sufficient barbs size, which limit the both the effectivity and longevity of the effect.
Is thread lift safe?.
There is no need to worry about safety involvement in this procedures. As a minimally invasive surgery. Thread lift is highly effective, this method leave very small scars that are almost invisible because they were hidden on the hairlines. Patients can return home immediately after the procedures.
* The final result depends on individual's physiology.
