Sofwave®
Ultrasound Treatment for Early Skin Laxity
Sofwave® uses ultrasound to warm a precise layer of the skin and prompt it to rebuild collagen. It is for early looseness: the softening along the jaw, the brow that sits a lower than it used to, the beginning of laxity under the chin and across the neck.
How it works
The device delivers ultrasound through seven parallel transducers in a synchronised beam. The energy concentrates in the mid-dermis, roughly one and a half to two millimetres below the surface, which is where the collagen-producing layer sits. The skin surface is cooled at the same time, so the epidermis above the treated zone is spared.
The structural scaffold of the skin is mostly type I collagen woven through with elastin, and it sits well below anything a cream can reach. Warming it in a controlled way triggers a repair response, and the repair is the treatment. Each pass treats about 28% of the mid-dermal tissue volume in the area covered.
What to expect
Change is gradual, because what you are waiting on is collagen. Nothing looks different the next day. The biopsy evidence suggests remodelling continues over months rather than weeks, which matches what we see.
Whether it is right for you
Sofwave® starts with an assessment, because the real question is not whether we can do it. It is whether it is the right answer for what you have noticed. Laxity, volume loss and skin quality look similar in a mirror and respond to completely different things.
