Plasma treatments
Plasma is the heart of the clinic, and it isn't one treatment: cold, hot and fractional work in entirely different ways. All three are here, which is why the choice can follow what your skin needs instead of fitting the problem to whichever device is in the room.
Three technologies, three purposes
Cold plasma is not thermal. It works at the level of the skin barrier — calming, supporting recovery, suitable even for reactive skin — which is why it is sometimes a preparation or reinforcement stage inside a longer process rather than the treatment itself.
Hot plasma works point by point: it creates precise points that contract loose skin. This is the method chosen when there is localised laxity you can point at — an eyelid, the jawline, the neck — rather than an unevenness spread across the whole face.
Fractional plasma works on skin texture at depth, and is meant for the situations where the surface is the problem: uneven texture, scars, marks left behind once the activity has settled.
Not only the face
Plasma is used at the clinic on the face, the neck and the décolletage, and on the body as well — including an abdominal lift by the plasma method, work on scars on the body and the face, and stretch-mark correction.
The eye and eyelid area is among the most delicate and most requested there is, and it is precisely there that precision matters more than intensity. An eyelid lift and a neck-and-face lift are two separate goals, built differently even when the chosen technology is the same.
How the process looks
We start with the analysis: first we talk about what is bothering you and what you have already tried, and then I photograph and analyse the skin with the Sonaxx analysis camera, which shows layers and conditions the eye cannot see. Only then are the technology, the area and the intensity chosen.
Plasma is almost always built as a series rather than a single session, and in many cases in combination with the other methods in the clinic. In treatments that rest on collagen building the change accumulates over weeks and is not fully visible the next day — and what is reasonable to expect, and when, you'll hear at the end of the analysis.
Downtime
It depends on the technology, and you'll have the exact instructions before the session and after it so you can plan your week. Cold plasma requires no meaningful downtime. With hot plasma and fractional plasma there may be redness, mild swelling, or a thin crust that sheds on its own.
If there's an event, a holiday or a period of sun exposure coming up, that is a factor in choosing both the date and the method — and it's worth telling me at the analysis rather than after it.
Who it suits
- There is localised laxity you can point at — eyelids, jawline, neck or abdomen
- Skin texture is uneven, or marks are left from a process that has already settled
- You want a gradual process built over several sessions, not a sudden change
- Treatments that only worked on the surface didn't hold for you
When we talk first, and when I refer you to a doctor
- Pregnancy and breastfeeding, certain medical conditions, certain medications, an active infection in the treatment area and a tendency to scarring or hyperpigmentation all affect suitability — some postpone a treatment and some rule it out entirely. That is checked at the analysis, before anything is scheduled.
- A lesion, mole or change in the skin in the area intended for treatment is examined by a dermatologist before I touch that area.
This page is a general explanation of the treatment, not personal advice. Suitability is established at the skin analysis and the conversation around it — and if this treatment isn't what your skin needs, you'll hear that from me.
Further reading
- Cold, hot and fractional plasma — three technologies, not three intensities
Cold, hot and fractional plasma are not three settings of the same treatment. Each works differently and answers a different goal — here is how the skin analysis decides which one is yours.
- Downtime — what to expect after each kind of treatment, and how to plan the week
Not every treatment involves downtime, and not all downtime looks alike. What happens after ultrasound, after gold, after plasma and after fractional RF — and when to book.
Let's start with an analysis
Tell me what's bothering you and we'll book a skin analysis and a conversation. By the end of it you'll know what's reasonable to expect, over what period, and whether this is the right method for you at all.