Physician to Physician Discussions > Ulthera , any feedback?
If you are plastic surgeon/dermatologist in Beverly Hills or you earn 1 million dollars per month….then yes you must buy Ulthera. If you aren’t…. you will waste your “nice” money.
I am very upset with this device and with some companies which sell to the doctors extremely expensive devices and the results are extremely poor. It is worthy only for advertisement and marketing of your clinic….nothing else. It has disposables which are also expensive, so you will offer an expensive treatment to your patients and finally nobody will be satisfied. You will not see any lifting effect especially after one treatment. Maybe after two or three treatments some results will be visible, but you should have patients to pay a lot and be patient.
The screen is totally not necessary. The theory that you will see the SMAS and the ultrasound will be focused to the SMAS it seems to be like a candy for children.
If you search for ulthera in pubmed there is only one result from 2008. Maybe there other articles which describe the same method of treatment (focused ultrasound) but they don’t mention the name Ulthera.
In conclusion my opinion is NOT to buy it. It is better to buy a cheap radiofrequency (monopolar and bipolar). It has the same results and you will be more flexible to make offers to you patients.
peter pan
We lease the machine, but are underwhelmed by the result. We had the original company training, and then retraining when we had poor results (no result). The second RN trainer used a lot more lines (more cost) than the company trainer. If you don't have excellent, reproducible photographic skills, your patients will complain that there are no results. This is not a good machine, yet!
d janssen
I totally agree with the comments of d Janssen. it s necessary to use more lines in order to see some effect. I think that we should judge a device according also to the cost. so for so expensive device i think it doesn't worth. the only reason to buy this will be for advertisement of your clinic. however with these money you can improve your clinic's profile with better ways
peter pan
Hi, I am wondering if there is anyone has any experience with this technology?
It seems that it is an once a year treatment similar to thermage.
It sounds too good to be true. Anyone care to share their views?