Shaping the skin and removing fine lines and wrinkles is undoubtedly the most popular current trend in beauty and aesthetics. Tixel is one of the leading devices utilising thermo-mechanical energy to treat the skin on the face, neck, and hands.
Tixel heats the skin’s surface to create controlled micro-injuries, which trigger new collagen production, offering patients a younger appearance from a safer, more tolerable treatment. This stimulates cell turnover and remodelling of the skin, allowing for improved skin tone and texture.
What is Thermo-Mechanical Energy?
The skin is the largest organ in the human body and is responsible for keeping our internal systems healthy, protecting us from infections, and regulating body temperature. But even though it does so much, it still needs help!
Thermo-mechanical energy is a concept that has been around for thousands of years and is the basis of many heating and cooling solutions. However, it is only recently that medical and health professionals have discovered the vast benefits of TME in treating various dermatological concerns and conditions.
Thermo-mechanical energy technology uses heat and mechanical pressure to treat the skin. Used by various medical professionals, including plastic surgeons, dermatologists, and general practitioners.
How does Thermo-Mechanical Energy treat common skin concerns and conditions?
Thermo-Mechanical Energy improves skin texture and tone, encourages faster cell turnover, reduces inflammation and redness, reduces acne breakouts, and even helps stretch marks, with no, or very minimal discomfort.
Thermo-mechanical energy works by inducing a pure heat into the skin, stimulating fibroblast to start collagen remodelling and also increases the blood flow in the area being treated. The increased blood flow helps accelerate the healing process and reduces any discomfort experienced during treatment. It also helps improve skin texture and elasticity, making skin look healthier overall.
What are the benefits of Thermo-Mechanical Energy treatments over alternatives such as ablative laser?
The benefits of Thermo-Mechanical Energy treatments over alternatives such as ablative laser are that they are less invasive, more comfortable for the patient, less downtime (recovery time) and much less disconformable for the patients.
Thermo-Mechanical Energy treatments can be beneficial to patients who are interested in pursuing minimally invasive procedures. While lasers are popular, procedures are much more complicated and patients require more recovery time.
Thermo-Mechanical Energy is a less invasive method that uses heat and pressure to treat areas of concern. The heat causes the collagen fibres in the skin to contract, which helps to tighten the skin and reduce wrinkles.
What is Tixel?
Tixel is one of the leading devices utilising thermo-mechanical energy to treat the skin on the face, neck, and hands.
Tixel heats the skin’s surface, creating controlled micro-injuries, triggering new collagen production, and giving patients a younger appearance with a safer, more tolerable treatment. In doing this, Tixel stimulates cell turnover and remodelling of the skin, allowing for improved skin tone and texture.
Tixel treatments are minimally invasive and cause less discomfort than traditional laser procedures. Furthermore, they are effective even in situations where other lasers would not be appropriate (for example, on darker skin tones).
How does Tixel work?
This unique device uses a patented titanium plate with tiny, blunt pyramidal pins on it, heated to 400 degrees Celsius. It is momentarily applied to the skin’s surface to deliver thermal energy to the skin.
The technique is non-invasive as the titanium pins do not puncture the skin, but create micron-sized channels in the skin’s tissue. The results are similar to laser resurfacing but without the pain or downtime associated with this procedure. Because this type of treatment doesn’t require anaesthesia or needles, it’s also safer than other types of lasers because there’s no risk of infection from an open wound like with traditional laser procedures.
Settings on Tixel are adjustable in form of the area of the contact with the skin and the duration of contact with the skin. Because of this, it allows the practitioner to tailor treatments to the skin condition being treated, the patient’s skin type, and downtime that is acceptable.
This device is used for various conditions such as acne, rosacea, fine lines and wrinkles, scarring (including surgical scars) and stretch marks (including pitting). Tixel has also been effective at treating hyperpigmentation, reducing pore size through collagen remodelling, and improving overall texture, tone of the skin.
Are there any side effects of Tixel treatment? Tixel is a non-invasive procedure that has few side effects or risks. The skin may feel slightly itchy and warm for a day after the treatment, as if it was exposed to the sun. Mild swelling and redness are common for 1-2 days after treatment, if any at all. Patients can minimise swelling and redness by keeping their skin moisturised and avoiding the sun during healing.
How many treatments will I need?
The number of treatments needed depends on patient circumstances and desired outcomes. More severe skin conditions may require more treatments, and the practitioner discusses this with the patient during the initial consultation.
A course of 3-6 treatments spaced one month apart is recommended. After that, regular maintenance will be required, with a treatment every 8-12 months.
Tixel, the new alternative to skin remodelling
For those of you interested to provide a new way of skin remodelling treatment, or having the treatment, Tixel is definitely number one device to consider.
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