Revelation of Thermage's Growth

THERMAGE

Open the first of RF beauty

The use of radio frequency in the medical field can be traced back to the 1970s. It was first used for tissue ablation and cutting in dentistry. It was not until 1995 that Dr. Edward W. Knowlton, a plastic surgeon in the United States, creatively introduced radio frequency into the field of medical aesthetics. And founded Thermage company.

·Edward W. Knowlton

In 2002, after Thermage was approved by the FDA, clinical research on radio frequency beauty using Thermage as a tool was fully launched. A large number of theoretical studies on the mechanism of radio frequency, radio frequency tissue biology, and the safety and effectiveness of radio frequency beauty were carried out. The vigorous development of anti-aging beauty has laid a solid theoretical and clinical foundation.

Up to now, Google Scholar has retrieved 1270 articles of Thermage literature, compared with about 313 articles for ultherapy, about 20 articles for fotona4d, and 0 articles for ultrasound guns [1]. This shows the depth and breadth of Thermage's clinical application in scientific research.

Nowadays, RF anti-aging products on the market emerge in endlessly, but following the trend, we can vaguely see Thermage's technical model and basic theoretical support for RF beauty research.

Looking back at the first-generation product Thermacool, which is restricted by the discharge effect of the radio frequency tip, its treatment head is only 1.0cm2, and it takes 5 seconds for each shot to be fired. A full treatment takes four hours. At the same time, it has extremely high energy. The fixed-point heating caused severe pain and once required general anesthesia to complete the entire treatment process, and the cost of one treatment was as high as 70,000 US dollars [2]. Compared with today's Thermage FLX 4.0cm2 beauty head, the 40-minute comfortable experience without anesthetics is a world away.

Despite this, beauty seekers are still attracted by Thermage's amazing effects. In a controlled clinical study of mandibular face and half face, the treated half face reduced the area by 22.6% compared with the untreated half face [3]. In the first year that Thermacool was released, it created nearly $25 million in sales for Thermage. This was in 2002 20 years ago.

American celebrities who are keen on beauty and anti-aging, such as the 60-born supermodel founder Linda Evangelista Linda Evangelista, the 70s Oscar actress Gwyneth Paltrow, Gwyneth Paltrow, the 80-born American socialite Kim Kar Dai Shan is a big fan of Remaggie.

It can be said that the emergence of radio frequency beauty not only broadens the thinking of medical beauty, but also has more feasibility for skin tightening. It also brings unprecedented new forms of beauty to beauty seekers, allowing beauty seekers to see beyond surgical plastic surgery. Another form of anti-aging, the trend of non-invasive anti-aging emerged from that time.

25 years of technological breakthroughs create every surprise

Since then, Thermage has not fallen silent because of such a huge success. On the contrary, it invests more revenue into research and development, and continues to move forward in the direction of faster, more comfortable, safer, more effective, and more satisfying.

In 2004, the Thermomagi treatment head technology achieved a breakthrough for the first time. The thinner capacitor film allows the cooling effect of the coolant to be quickly transferred to the skin to achieve dynamic control of cold and heat, reducing the emission time of 5 seconds to 1 second. That is, the 1.0cm2fast treatment head, so that the full-face Thermage firming is accepted by more beauty seekers.

In 2005, the problem of uneven heat caused by the inherent tip discharge effect of radio frequency was overcome, and the treatment head that expanded the area of the treatment head by 3.0cm2 appeared, which greatly shortened the treatment time of beauty seekers.

At the same time, the superficial and more precise 0.25cm2 eye treatment head has been approved by the FDA for the indication of eyelid wrinkle removal, and so far Thermage is still the only device approved by the FDA for non-invasive treatment of eyelids [4] .

In 2009, a new generation of Thermage product Thermage CPT was approved by the US FDA. It uses patented comfort pulse technology (patent number US8788060) to creatively apply neuroscience to pain control. The invention of comfort pulse technology enables beauty seekers to obtain results without having to endure severe pain. For the beautiful, it is a qualitative improvement in the sense of experience.

In 2013, the all-around treatment head appeared, namely Total Tip3.0, which greatly increased the heating temperature of the tissue and at the same time increased the heating depth from 2.4mm to 4.3mm, which further improved the treatment effect. This is widely praised by domestic seekers. The fourth generation Remaggi and gold treatment head.

In 2017, the fifth-generation Thermage FLX was announced to be launched. It further expanded the head-end area to 4.0cm2 and adopted the intelligent fine-tuning system ACCUREP technology to further improve comfort. In the latest research, Thermage showed better results and satisfaction of beauty seekers.

In the past 25 years, every technological breakthrough and innovation has brought different experiences and surprises to those who seek beauty.

Today's Thermage has better skin tightening and wrinkle removal effects, shorter operating time, more comfortable operating experience, and the price has become more and more acceptable to beauty seekers.