How it feels, what it costs, and whether it's truly worth it.
WHAT IT IS
Ultherapy uses therapeutic ultrasound to inflict thermal injury up to 4.5 millimeters deep in the skin of the face, neck, and décolleté to stimulate collagen production, which tapers off as you get older. If your skin is sagging, this "resets the clock without surgery; it's the Holy Grail," says William Kestin, MD, the New York City doctor who performed this procedure on me. Increased collagen causes the skin to tighten, plump, and lift itself back to elasticity levels from some era in your past. Time to full effect? Three to six months, Kestin says. "You'll wake up one morning and, Wow!"
While the "Hollywood people" do it yearly, he says, the rest of us less financially blessed mortals can get away with waiting 18 months to two years between treatments.
