Tissue tightening technologies: Fact or fiction

Aesthetic Surgery Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 180-188

  Sadick, Neil ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; MELANIN;

ARTICLE; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; DEVICE THERAPY; HUMAN; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SKIN PENETRATION; SKIN TIGHTNESS;

CATHETER ABLATION; COLLAGEN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COSMETIC TECHNIQUES; FACE; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; LASER THERAPY; NECK; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SKIN AGING;

EID: 41149132111     PISSN: 1090820X     EISSN: 1527330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asj.2007.12.009     Document Type: Article

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