Ultherapy Skin Lifting
Non-surgical skin lifting and tightening with focused ultrasound, treating the brow, jawline, neck, and décolletage at Nashville Skin Company in Green Hills.
What is Ultherapy?
Ultherapy uses focused ultrasound to reach a layer of tissue most treatments never touch. The energy passes through the surface of your skin without damaging it and deposits heat deep underneath, in the same supportive layer a surgeon tightens during a facelift. Your body responds by building new collagen there over the following months, and the skin above it firms and lifts as that happens.
It is the only treatment of its kind that lets us see what we are treating. Real-time ultrasound imaging shows the tissue layers on screen before any energy is delivered, so the depth is chosen for your anatomy rather than assumed. Energy is placed at the deep supportive layer, in the deep dermis, and just under the surface, depending on what your skin needs.
It is not a facelift, and we will not tell you it is. Ultherapy tightens what you already have. At your consultation we will look at your skin and tell you what it can realistically do for you, rather than overselling it and letting you find out later.
We have been doing this since 2016
Nashville Skin Company is physician owned and has been treating clients in the Nashville area since 2013. We brought in Ultherapy in 2016 and have been performing it ever since, which is a decade of running this treatment on real faces. Your treatment will be performed by one of our licensed medical estheticians, each with years of hands-on experience on this exact platform.
That matters more with Ultherapy than with almost anything else we offer. The energy is invisible, it is delivered by hand, and where it is placed and how much of it goes in is a judgment call made in the moment. There is no setting that does the thinking for you. Ten years of watching how skin responds, and following the same clients through repeat treatments year after year, is what turns that judgment into something reliable.
What Ultherapy lifts
The jawline and jowls
The most common reason people come in. Softening along the jaw is usually the first thing anyone notices in photographs of themselves.
The neck and under the chin
Laxity under the chin and down the front of the neck, including the vertical bands that show when you talk.
The brow
A lifted brow opens the eye area and takes tiredness out of your expression without touching the eyelid itself.
The décolletage
Lines across the chest, which is one of the first areas to give age away and one of the last most people think to treat.
What Korea figured out first
If you follow Korean skin care at all, none of this will be new to you. Lifting is treated as its own category in Seoul rather than an afterthought, and focused ultrasound sits right at the top of it. Clinics there have been doing this at volume for years, and it is one of the most requested treatments in the country.
What is worth borrowing is not the technology, because it is the same technology. It is the timing. The approach there is to start early, treat consistently, and hold onto collagen rather than wait until enough of it is gone that surgery is the only thing left that works.
That is why we suggest thinking about your first Ultherapy somewhere between 25 and 35, well before anything looks wrong to you. Collagen is far easier to keep than to rebuild, and the people who start in that window tend to need less from us later, not more.
Areas and pricing
We treat anywhere from one targeted area up to the full face and neck together, and the price follows how much ground we are covering. Full treatment areas run $800 to $3,500. Smaller targeted areas are available as well.
The one worth knowing by name is the chin strap, also called the V lift, at $1,600. It runs from the jowls up into the temples, and it is what most of our Ultherapy clients end up choosing, because it addresses the exact thing people are looking at when they pull their skin back in the mirror.
We map out what makes sense for your face at your consultation and tell you what it costs before you commit to anything.
Ask about our memberships. Members receive 10% to 20% off. Member pricing applies to single treatments and isn’t combined with packages or promotional offers.
What the appointment is like
We start with ultrasound gel and the imaging screen, mapping the treatment area and confirming the depth before anything is delivered. Energy is then applied in lines across the area, and you will feel each one.
The sensation is brief heat and a deep prickling under the skin, strongest over bone along the jaw and brow. It arrives in short bursts rather than continuously, and it stops the moment the line is finished. Most people describe it as uncomfortable rather than painful.
Pro-Nox, included with every Ultherapy
You do not have to just get through it. Pro-Nox comes with your Ultherapy at no extra charge. It is a balanced mix of nitrous oxide and oxygen that you hold and breathe yourself, so you decide how much you use and when, rather than waiting for someone else to decide you have had enough.
It takes the edge off within a couple of breaths and clears just as quickly, which means you drive yourself home afterward with no one to arrange and nothing to sleep off. Plenty of practices charge for this. With Ultherapy, we include it.
Time depends entirely on the area. A targeted area is about thirty minutes. A full face is around two hours. Full face and neck together runs closer to three and a half.
Is Ultherapy right for you?
Mild to moderate laxity responds the most predictably, and that is often the thirties through the fifties. But we go by skin, not by birthday. We have treated clients in their sixties and seventies and gotten real lift out of it.
Moderate to severe laxity is harder to treat, and results vary more from person to person. That does not put it off the table. It means we want to look at your skin and talk it through properly before you decide, so that what you expect and what happens are the same thing.
It is not the right treatment if there is an open wound, an active infection, or severe cystic acne in the area we would be treating, or if you have metallic implants in the treatment area.
Results and timing
Ultherapy does not show up the next day. You are growing collagen, and that takes the time it takes.
- Six to eight weeks: the first visible tightening.
- Two to three months: where most of the change lands.
- Up to six months: collagen continues building for some people.
Results typically hold for a year or more, and most of our clients repeat once a year to stay ahead of what age keeps doing. Individual results vary.
Downtime
There is essentially none. You can go back to work, back to the gym, and wear makeup the same day.
- Flushing for a few hours afterward
- Mild swelling, and tenderness when you press on the area, for a few days up to a couple of weeks
- Occasional tingling or small patches of numbness that resolve on their own
- Rarely, a small bruise. It is uncommon, but it happens, so we would rather you hear it from us first
No restrictions, no products to avoid, nothing to plan around.
Your follow up
We bring you back at three months to photograph your skin in our imaging system and compare it against the day you started, because collagen change is gradual enough that you will not see it in the mirror day to day. We check in again at six months.
Your follow up includes a complimentary BBL Photofacial for the same area we treated. If your Ultherapy was on your neck, your BBL is for your neck. And if you would rather have your BBL on a different area, tell us and we will price that area for you.
That offer is ours, not the manufacturer’s, and it exists because tightening deals with structure while BBL deals with tone, and the two together are what people are actually picturing when they say they want to look refreshed.
Booking
Ultherapy starts with a consultation so we can look at your skin and tell you whether it is the right treatment. Give us a call at (615) 997-3330 and we will get you scheduled.
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