Corpus ID: 6627202

Noninvasive radio frequency for skin tightening and body contouring.

@article{Weiss2013NoninvasiveRF,
  title={Noninvasive radio frequency for skin tightening and body contouring.},
  author={R. Weiss},
  journal={Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery},
  year={2013},
  volume={32 1},
  pages={
          9-17
        }
}

R. Weiss

Published 2013

Medicine

Seminars in cutaneous medicine and surgery

The medical use of radio frequency (RF) is based on an oscillating electrical current forcing collisions between charged molecules and ions, which are then transformed into heat. RF heating occurs irrespective of chromophore or skin type and is not dependent on selective photothermolysis. RF can be delivered using monopolar, bipolar, and unipolar devices, and each method has theoretical limits of depth penetration. A variant of bipolar delivery is fractional RF delivery. In monopolar… CONTINUE READING

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