Define the contours that make your face yours by addressing a softened jawline, under-chin fullness, pockets of fat, or loose skin. At New You Center, we carefully assess what’s causing the change and personalize treatment to your anatomy.
Facial Contouring at a Glance
Sculpt Your Features Without Major Surgery
Facial contouring is a personalized approach to improving the shape, definition, and proportions of your face without automatically turning to traditional surgery. It can address concerns such as under-chin fullness, a less-defined jawline, small fat pockets, or loose tissue by targeting the specific structures responsible for the changes you see.
Advanced Facial Contouring:
At New You Center, we can choose from several technologies depending on whether fat, laxity, tissue position, or a combination is affecting your contours:
- FaceTite: Define the lower face and jawline by using controlled bipolar radiofrequency energy to address localized fat while contracting and remodeling surrounding tissue.
- AGNES Precision RF: Sculpt the jawline, neck, and under-chin area by delivering focused radiofrequency energy through insulated micro-needles to target small fat deposits
- Other Facial Contouring Options: Refine specific concerns with NeckTite, AccuTite, LaserLipo, or MyEllevate suture suspension, selected according to the area being treated and the underlying cause of your contour changes.
Facial Contouring Treats:
- Under-chin fullness
- Small pockets of facial fat
- A softened or poorly defined jawline
- Mild to moderate skin laxity
- Lower-face heaviness
- Loose tissue along the neck
- Blurred facial contours
- Early jowling
- Loss of lower-face definition
- Age-related changes in facial shape
Benefits of Facial Contouring:
- Refines jawline and lower-face definition
- Reduces small, stubborn pockets of fat
- Tightens lax or loose tissue
- Improves under-chin and neck contours
- Minimally invasive treatment options
- Targets multiple causes of contour changes
- An alternative to more extensive surgery
Other Important Facial Contouring Details
Duration
About 45 - 90 Mins
Anesthesia
Local
Downtime
Minimal
Onset of Results
Initial changes within 7 to 14 days
Longevity of Results
About 12 to 60+ months, depending on the treatment used
Optimal Frequency
Often a single treatment (with occasional maintenance)
Is Facial Contouring the Same as a Facelift?
No. These procedures can refine fat, tighten tissue, and improve definition, but they don’t remove and reposition tissue as extensively as facelift surgery. If you have significant laxity or jowling, we’ll be honest about the limitations of nonsurgical or minimally invasive treatments.
Deep Dive Into Facial Contouring
How Does Facial Contouring Work?
Facial contours can soften for various reasons, so each technology addresses a different part of the problem. Here’s what each option actually does beneath your skin:
FaceTite
FaceTite uses radiofrequency-assisted lipolysis (RFAL) to address both localized fat and loose tissue. A slender electrode is placed underneath your skin while another remains on the surface. Radiofrequency energy passes between them. The resulting heat targets fatty tissue while causing collagen-rich connective tissue to contract. Your body then continues remodeling collagen, helping the lower face and jawline gradually look firmer.
AGNES Precision RF
AGNES is especially useful when we need precise work. Tiny insulated micro-needles are positioned at a carefully selected depth, where they deliver radiofrequency energy without heating the tissues above. This allows us to target small pockets of fat around the jawline, neck, and under the chin. The controlled heat also contracts tissue and stimulates collagen, helping refine and tighten the treated area.
NeckTite
NeckTite brings radiofrequency-assisted contouring specifically to the neck and under-chin area, using controlled heat to address localized fat while contracting tissue for a firmer, better-defined neck contour.
AccuTite
AccuTite works much like FaceTite but with a smaller applicator, giving us extra precision when treating delicate or compact facial areas where a larger handpiece simply wouldn’t make sense, such as the eyelids and jowls.
LaserLipo
Instead of radiofrequency energy, LaserLipo uses a fine laser fiber beneath the skin to deliver controlled heat to localized fat, helping reduce unwanted fullness while also producing a tissue-tightening effect.
MyEllevate
MyEllevate doesn’t use heat at all. Instead, a continuous, permanent suture is carefully placed beneath the skin’s surface to support the underlying tissues, helping to create better definition along the jawline and neck.
FAQs
When Will I See My Facial Contouring Results?
You may notice an early change once the initial swelling subsides, while results from RF-based treatments continue to develop as collagen remodels over the following months. With fat reduction, your contours also become clearer as your body processes the treated tissue.
What Is Recovery Like After Facial Contouring?
Recovery varies. Minimally invasive treatments like FaceTite, NeckTite, AccuTite, and LaserLipo can involve swelling, bruising, tenderness, and temporary numbness. AGNES Precision RF may also cause localized swelling. We’ll explain the expected recovery for your specific treatment beforehand.
Advanced Aesthetics, Centered on You.
Schedule Your Consultation for Facial Contouring in Columbus, OH
A sharper jawline or smoother lower face may involve addressing fat, loose skin, tissue support, or a combination of these. With 25+ years in medical aesthetics, Dr. Mary Beth Mudd can help you understand what’s creating your concern and build a treatment plan tailored to your specific anatomy and goals.
Come see us at New You Center in the Polaris area of Columbus, easily accessible from I-71. Schedule your facial contouring consultation today.
