Melasma, fine lines, wrinkles, and skin laxity are no match for Exion.
In Jacksonville, NC, this treatment enhances your skin’s overall hydration and health from within, giving you lasting improvements in its tone, texture, strength, and elasticity.
When you come to Bloom Aesthetics by Coastal Carolina Internal Medicine P.A., we customize this treatment for you based on your unique skin type and concerns.
Exion not only exceeds our patients’ expectations by delivering them with younger-looking and healthier skin, but it also exceeds our team’s expectations as well!
Table of Contents
- What is Exion Face?
- What Skin Conditions Can Exion Improve?
- Number of Sessions Needed
- Result Duration
- Paired Treatments
What Is Exion Face?
Exion Face is a skin rejuvenation device that combines radiofrequency (RF) energy with targeted ultrasound to tighten skin without the use of needles. Together, these technologies stimulate fibroblasts within the middle layer of your skin (the dermis) to boost your body’s production of hyaluronic acid, collagen, and elastin—3 skin-saving components that decline with age. Let’s explore what they are and why they are important to your skin’s health.
Hyaluronic Acid
Hyaluronic acid (HA) is a naturally occurring humectant in your body that can retain over 1,000 times its weight in water. Exion in Jacksonville can improve your body’s hyaluronic acid production by 224%, giving your skin a plumper and more refreshed appearance and combatting dryness.
Collagen
Collagen acts as your skin’s scaffolding, providing it with structure, strength, and support. It’s also vital to wound healing as it helps your body replace damaged, dead skin cells with new, healthy ones. So not only does it support your skin’s underlying framework, it keeps your skin looking healthy and even.
Elastin
Elastin gives your skin the flexibility to stretch and “snap back” while retaining its shape. When your body is rich in elastin, you can smile, frown, or squint, and as soon as you relax your face, the skin settles back into its original position. As elastin declines, it takes several seconds for your skin to resettle. Because Exion stimulates elastin production, it gives you a firmer appearance and helps reduce skin laxity.
What Skin Conditions Can Exion Improve?
Exion improves your skin’s overall health. For that reason, you don’t necessarily need to have a specific concern to enjoy the benefits of this skin rejuvenating treatment. With that being said, many patients inquire about Exion in Jacksonville, NC, for the following concerns.
Melasma
Melasma is a skin condition and form of hyperpigmentation that appears as brown or blue-gray freckle-like spots or patches on your skin. It occurs due to an overproduction of skin cells called melanocytes, which store and produce melanin (skin’s pigment).
Women most commonly experience this chronic skin condition, especially during pregnancy. This observation leads us to believe that increased levels of hormones like estrogen and progesterone may contribute to melanocyte production. Melasma can also occur after exposure to radiation, whether from light or heat.
How Exion Helps
Melasma is a chronic condition, meaning it lasts longer than 3 months and can even stick around for a lifetime. Exion reduces melasma by breaking down excess melanin and stimulating collagen production to promote the appearance of clear, even-toned skin.
Because we are also a medical center, we can support women struggling with hormonal fluctuations. Though we are not gynecologists, our certified physicians can perform various women’s health services like Pap smears, annual physical exams, and menopause support. We can even provide menstrual pain relief and contraceptive management as well.
Age Spots (Brown Spots)
Age spots and melasma may seem similar—and in many ways, they are! After all, they are both forms of hyperpigmentation that appear on your skin in flat patches. However, age spots (also known as brown spots, solar lentigines, sunspots, and liver spots) develop from prolonged, excess exposure to harmful UV radiation from the sun.
How Exion Helps
Exion in Jacksonville can reduce brown spots by breaking up the excess pigment, similar to how it works against melasma. However, Exion is especially helpful against sun-damaged skin because, in addition to causing brown spots, the UV radiation weakens and breaks down the skin’s existing collagen and elastin fibers. Because Exion increases the natural production of those very same proteins, it gives your skin the tools it needs to maintain its shape and structure.
Fine Lines and Wrinkles
Wrinkles and fine lines appear as your body starts losing collagen and elastin, weakening your skin’s underlying structures and making you more susceptible to the effects of gravity and the hands of time.
You can soften and even prevent wrinkles with injectables like Botox, which limit facial muscle movements to keep your skin relaxed and smooth. However, Botox alone can’t prevent collagen loss, which is where Exion offers additional improvements.
How Exion Helps
Exion boosts your collagen and elastin production, reinforcing your skin’s foundation to make it stronger and able to withstand gravity and the passage of time. For optimal results, you can pair Exion in Jacksonville, NC, with injectables like Botox to target both sources of skin aging.
Sagging Skin
As your skin loses collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid, it loses its ability to stay taut and plump. This results in skin laxity. Not only does your skin sag, but it also loses volume and appears thinner and more crepey than before. The same effects can occur following dramatic weight loss or sun damage.
How Exion Helps
Exion helps keep your skin firm, lifted, and plump. While the renewed collagen provides your skin with the strength and structure it needs to stay supported, more elastin gives it the ability to retain its shape after each facial movement. Hyaluronic acid helps it retain moisture and stay naturally hydrated and youthful.
Number of Sessions Needed
The loss of collagen, hyaluronic acid, and elastin was a gradual process. Therefore, restoring them doesn’t happen overnight.
Most patients benefit from 4 to 6 sessions for optimal results. During your consultation, we can determine how many sessions you will need based on your skin’s condition and your unique concerns.
Pre- and Post-Care Instructions for Exion
For best results, please follow these instructions to accelerate healing and enhance your Exion experience.
Pre-Care Instructions
Before each session for Exion, please avoid any NSAIDs like Ibuprofen, fish oil, or ginseng for at least 1 week.
We also recommend avoiding sun exposure and harsh skincare products like retinol for 2 weeks before your appointments.
Post-Care Instructions
While this treatment boasts minimal downtime, you should refrain from wearing makeup for at least 3 days after each session. Your skin will be sensitive, so we also recommend staying out of direct sunlight and wearing SPF (this is a practice you should continue regardless of whether you’re receiving treatment with Exion).
Support your skin from the inside out by staying hydrated and drinking plenty of water to flush out any toxins and encourage efficient renewal.
Results Duration
Results from Exion can last up to a year, giving you long-lasting improvements in your skin’s tone, texture, and overall health. For best results, you can visit us each year for maintenance sessions of Exion in Jacksonville.
Paired Treatments
While Exion alone can improve concerns like melasma, fine lines, and wrinkles, it can provide even better results when strategically paired with other treatments. We recommend the following.
RF Microneedling
Exion is a multi-platform device with several handpieces available, each designed to achieve different goals through varying modalities. With Exion RF microneedling, we can still administer the stimulating thermal energy of radiofrequency, but instead pair it with the rejuvenating power of microneedling.
This treatment involves using a specialized handpiece equipped with dozens of tiny, fine needles to create micro-wounds in your skin and kick start your body’s natural healing abilities.
RF microneedling with Exion reaches 4mm deep, and the RF energy goes another 4mm further to target collagen and elastin in the dermis, leading to both surface-level and underlying improvements.
We recommend RF microneedling for acne scars as well as pigmentation issues like melasma.
Emface
Skin laxity isn’t just about collagen and elastin; bone structure and muscle tone also change with age, diminishing volume in the face. You can maintain muscle mass and bone strength in your body through regular exercise, but what about your face?
With Emface we combine RF energy with high-intensity facial electrical stimulation (HIFES) to work those muscles and give you a nonsurgical facelift.
RF energy boosts collagen and elastin production to keep your skin firm and supported while HIFES induces thousands of facial muscle contractions to tighten and tone your facial features. With added muscle volume, your skin naturally lifts to a more youthful position.
Hydrafacial
The Hydrafacial uses a 3-step process to enhance your skin tone and texture. It pairs well with virtually any of our aesthetics treatments, not just Exion.
In Jacksonville, your skin will look plumper, clearer, and smoother after just 1 facial session. The process goes as follows:
- Cleanse – Using mild ingredients, we gently cleanse and exfoliate your skin to uncover a new, healthy layer.
- Extract – Using patented Vortex-Fusion technology, we lightly suction out buildup deep within your pores.
- Hydrate – We soothe and saturate your skin with personalized and targeted serums designed to help you reach your aesthetic goals.
Let Exion Exceed Your Expectations
When you look in the mirror, we want you to see a familiar face—yours—only free of uneven pigmentation, skin laxity, and fine lines. With Exion in Jacksonville, NC, we help you achieve a youthful, radiant glow. To get started, try our treatment planner tool or request a consultation.
