AgeJET Plasma Rejuvenation and Tightening is one of the most effective non-ablative treatments for rejuvenating and tightening skin. It simultaneously treats the entire structure of your skin—wrinkles, elasticity, scars, pigmentation, and more—with less-to-no social downtime, and far less medical downtime. Uniform impact across the treated area assures there’s never any patches of over-treated or untreated skin. This skin rejuvenation technique dramatically improves the appearance of the skin regardless of age.
AgeJET’s plasma is generated from medical-grade nitrogen gas, the essential component, and uses controlled pulses of energy at precise, customized levels to heat the tissue of the dermis (below skin surface) while an integrated cooling system sooths, hydrates, and restores skin’s layers.
New elastin and collagen begins to form immediately, so you can expect results after just one session. Revitalized fiber cells, accelerated micro-circulation, and removal of damaged collagen, as well as the triggered neocollagenesis and elastogenesis, lead to healthier, firmer, and lustrous skin that looks younger, and actually has the architecture of younger skin. Skin is refined and tighter, and new collagen continues to synthesize for over a year.
AgeJET Plasma Rejuvenation and Tightening is FDA-cleared for general dermatological conditions.
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Book NowDermis Treated, Epidermis Revived
Lasers and other treatments work by ablating or vaporizing the surface of the skin, the epidermis, to trigger healing responses. Other technologies target certain parts of your skin as a means of protecting surrounding tissue from damage, or because they are designed to treat specific skin damage or aging concerns. This can mean patches of untreated skin, significant downtime, chances for infection or complication, and possible side effects such as changes in skin texture, pigmentation, skin whitening, and even scarring. Instead, AgeJET's unique form of plasma energy allows controlled rapid heating over treatment areas of the dermis, stimulating collagen remodeling and restoring skin elasticity—all while leaving the overlying epidermis far more intact.
- There’s practically no downtime for medically-required recovery. Social downtime varies depending upon the treatment energy levels selected, and other factors detailed below.
- Over time, your healthy, upper skin layer provides protection (your own natural, sterile bandage!) as the deeper, treated tissue underneath is entirely remodeled during the physiological process of regeneration.
- No ablated skin means less chance of infection and a safer, less stressful overall experience.
YOUR CUSTOMIZED PLASMA TREATMENT
Larger surface areas may be covered or targeted attention may be applied to smaller areas of concern. For example, areas of sun damage, or skin around the eyes.
While any specific skin concerns are addressed, because your entire skin architecture is enveloped during treatment, you’ll benefit from AgeJET’s myriad of additional anti-aging results as well. For example, as you treat skin tone the plasma stimulates fibroblasts to produce new collagen and elastin, and at the same time causes existing collagen fibers to contract, inducing skin tightening.
The handpiece’s distance from your skin is regulated by two stainless steel prongs which can be adjusted to control the emitted plasma’s energy. These spacers ensure that the device is never too close to cause harm or too far away to be ineffective. In concert, the plasma’s energy level is controlled by your practitioner based upon your goals and treatment plan.
AgeJET treatments, like all treatments at Hayes Valley Med, are customized to each patient’s goals, area to be treated, skin type, skin’s thickness, sensitivity, and tolerance to possible social downtime. Just one treatment, at any energy level, will improve skin.
- Expectations – improvement to appearance of fine lines, wrinkles, or dark circles plus increased skin permeability, which aids topical product effectiveness. Active acne-causing bacteria is mitigated. Your skin will appear refined.
- Medical Downtime – none
- Social Downtime – transient redness, maybe swelling, and feeling of skin tightness may last for 1-3 days. After a few days, you may experience shedding of the skin.
- Treatments Needed – typically three treatments spaced about one month apart.
- Numbing – not needed
Medium Energy Settings
- Expectations – experience noticeable improvement to signs of aging, wrinkles, lines, and age spots.
- Medical Downtime – none to limited
- Social Downtime – redness, maybe swelling, and feeling of skin tightness may last for 2-5 days. After a few days, you may experience shedding and/or darkening of the skin.
- Treatments Needed – typically one to two treatments spaced about one month apart.
- Numbing – likely not needed, although a topical anesthetic may be applied.
High Energy Treatments
- Expectations – results comparable to ablative treatments, but with far less downtime and risk of post-treatment complications. Improvements to your overall skin health and appearance will be significant, and will include contouring and tightening.
- Medical Downtime – none to limited
- Social Downtime – redness, maybe swelling, and feeling of skin tightness may last for 4-10 days. After a few days, you’ll experience shedding and/or darkening of the skin. Around day six, patients feel confident with makeup to participate in Zoom meetings.
- Treatments Needed – typically one treatment.
- Numbing – a topical anesthetic or lidocaine product will be applied prior to treatment.
Interestingly, social downtime for the face is less than other body parts, for example the neck, which may take twice as long for darkening and shedding to resolve.
"The entire staff is lovely, super helpful and makes you feel at ease from the moment you walk in the door." - Amy A.
Book NowBEFORE AND AFTER PHOTOS
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HVME PATIENT Before and after AgeJET, microneedling and stem cell treatment
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HVME PATIENT Before and two months after treatment
HVME PATIENT Before and four weeks after single treatment at medium energy settings.
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CONDITIONS AND AREAS FOR TREATMENT
AgeJET treatments may be performed on the face, upper and lower eye area, chest, neck, hands, and body.
The following concerns can be effectively treated:
- Fine and deep wrinkles and lines
- Sagging, loose skin
- Skin discoloration and hyperpigmentation
- Photodamage and age spots
- Poor skin tone and texture
- Loss of skin elasticity, known as elastosis
- Active acne
- Benign pigmented lesions
- Actinic keratosis and seborrheic keratosis
- Solar elastosis
- Cherry angiomas, xanthomas, xanthelasma, solar lentigo, and benign moles
- Crow’s feet
- Freckles
- Stretch marks
- Scars, including Cesarean, breast implant, and acne
- Inguinal crease
- External vaginal revitalization
"Exceptional work and outstanding customer service. The staff is so warm and friendly. The office is so clean. I’ve been here several times over the past couple of years and I have never left disappointed. I would definitely recommend." - Ashley D.
Book NowAgeJET EYE
Take only 10 minutes out of the day to bring a more youthful and refreshed look to your upper and lower eyelids. AgeJET offers a better choice than other treatment modalities for treating sensitive eyelid tissue and is a non-surgical option for blepharoplasty. Sagging eyebrows, droopy upper eyelids and bags under the eyes can all be treated during one session.
Hayes Valley Med patient, before and four weeks after single AgeJET treatment at medium energy settings. Expected improvement to continue for three to nine months.
AgeJET EYE is safe and effective for all skin types. It is a non-ablative therapy with no incidence of scarring or scabbing.
Other benefits:
- Air-cooling system for increased comfort
- Only a topical anesthetic is needed
- Low downtime with minimal discomfort, similar to a mild sunburn
"Hayes Valley Medical & Esthetics is amazing. From the minute I walked in the door I felt like I was in the most professional office. The practice is ALWAYS introducing the newest and best aesthetics procedures. I recently had the Scarlet treatment on my face and was treated by Kate. She was professional, made me feel so comfortable and the treatment was a breeze. I highly recommend HVME for any and all face and body treatments." - Carol M.
Book NowFrequently Asked Questions
Any skin type may be treated. Darker skin tones may not tolerate higher-energy settings, but will do well with lower settings. The AgeJET procedure dramatically improves the appearance of your skin, regardless of age.
Treatment is contraindicated: patients who are pregnant, patients with keloid scars, with pacemakers (internal or external) and other implanted medical devices, with compromised immune systems, with active skin infections, with skin inflammatory conditions, lesions, diseases, or disorders. Also, patients who have recently undergone a treatment of skin resurfacing or self-tanning products within one week of treatment.
AgeJET is equipped with a sophisticated cooling system capable of cooling, hydrating, and restoring the skin during the same treatment. The cooling system avoids and minimizes risks and unwanted side effects. The treatment is simple and requires no anesthetic, except for deeper interventions, when the practitioner may apply a topical anesthetic cream or lidocaine product.
AgeJET is proven to be an effective skin tightening method as it channels energy to the skin tissue. This energy is converted into heat to penetrate easily and painlessly into the deeper layers of skin and stimulate the natural processes of cell regeneration. The heat stimulates the fibroblasts to produce new collagen and elastin, and at the same time causes existing collagen fibers to contract.
Immediately, you’ll see tighter skin over the treated area. Over several weeks to months, new skin surfaces as the regeneration effects progress.
Result will vary depending upon your treatment regimen and other factors. Clinical studies have shown that the neocollagenesis effect can endure for more than a year after the treatment, so results are long-lasting.
Your treatment plan will be determined during your consultation, based upon your goals, comfortable energy level, areas to be treated, and condition of your skin before treatment. Generally, one to six treatments are recommended.
Prior to treatment, you can boost skin resurfacing results with IPL, and after treatment, your skin will be more permeable, meaning products and other treatments of interest may be more effective. Our experts will have recommendations for you, should you be interested, after analyzing your skin.
While other gases produce plasma, and some such as helium, have been used for medical purposes, the plasma generated by nitrogen has been shown most effective for dermatological purposes.
Fiber cells provide elasticity and resilience. They are composed of elastin and related micorfibrillar proteins which form the structure within your skin.
Within your healthy dermis movement of hormones, gases, waste, and nutrients are optimized by a biological circulation system. Skin’s microcirculation may be altered by aging or sun damage, and can lead to rosacea, redness, and other surface signs.
The synthesis of new collagen and elastin, two components prominent in younger skin and essential for healthy, even, taught skin. As we age, both decline, leading to the signs of aging we hate.
Before, During, and After Treatment
How do I prepare for treatment?
A consultation – always complimentary – is required to discuss the level of energy and number of treatments which best match your goals.
During the two weeks before your appointment, avoid tanning and sun exposure. For seven days before your appointment, do not use exfoliants or topical tretinoins, like retinol, in the treatment area. Rigorously moisturize your skin.
We recommend all of our resurfacing patients use Alastin Skincare’s Procedure Enhancement System starting 14-30 days before your treatment. Pre-treating with this system will clear non-functioning collagen and impurities and prepare your skin for optimal results. Continuing Alastin after treatment will minimize downtime and elevate results. Directions for use.
For your appointment, please do not wear makeup. Men should shave. Moisturize your skin. Remember a case for your contact lenses, or wear your eyeglasses instead. Bring a hat (clean, and one you don’t mind getting petroleum jelly on) and sunglasses to protect your delicate skin on the way home.
Complete information will be provided prior to your treatment.
What happens during treatment?
45 to 60 minutes is generally required to treat the entire face. Treatments may be as short as five to ten minutes for smaller areas. Treatment times may vary, however, depending on the individual application, the thickness of the skin, and patient sensitivity. You’ll receive a topical numbing cream to apply 30 to 40 minutes before your treatment. For higher-energy treatments, an injectable local anesthetic may be used. A gel will be applied to protect your hairline and eyebrows. You may hear odd noises! If this is uncomfortable, we can provide you with earplugs.
Post-treatment care or downtime?
You’ll leave our office with pink or red skin, protected by a layer of petroleum jelly. Depending on the strength of the treatment, and how well your skin is previously conditioned, the downtime will vary. You may see a “bronzing effect” which will disappear within a few days. It is typically for the patient to experience four to ten days of social downtime. Other possible side effects will be covered during your complimentary consultation as these are dependent on the area treated and power level used.
Your skin will be more permeable post-treatment, allowing for increased efficacy of topical skin care which can speed healing while physiological improvements from your treatment proceed. Keep your skin moist with petroleum jelly. You’ll be advised upon when you can begin shaving and exercising. Although there are no open wounds, with higher energies skin may peel significantly for several days after the treatment. With higher treatment energies skin may peel significantly for several days after the treatment.
Patients may return to their normal daily routine immediately after treatment as there’s no medical care needed which may be the case with other rejuvenation therapies. Social downtime is more a preference of the patient, and how comfortable he or she may feel in public with skin that may be darker or shedding.
"I am beyond pleased with the service and results I received at Hayes Valley. The staff is very welcoming and warm, super good energy. The office is clean and inviting. I will be returning here for my services. 11/10!" - Brooke V.
Book NowWHAT'S THE SCIENCE?
The states of matter are commonly known as solid, liquid, and gas. Under certain conditions of increased energy application, there’s a fourth state—plasma matter—where electrons flow freely among the nuclei of the atoms. Natural plasma (lightning and energy in the sun) and man-made (neon lights and fluorescent light bulbs) surrounds us in our daily lives.
AgeJET delivers this plasma thermal energy through controlled pulses that quickly heat the dermal layers to the ideal temperature for stimulating neocollagenesis and elastogenesis, with no surface skin ablation. The practitioner controls the energy via the touchscreen in increments of 0.25 joules. The thermal energy is conducted via water in the tissue to the deep layers of the skin while purging the oxygen from the treatment area to avoid vaporization of the epidermis. This energy does not damage the skin barrier, but does cause the layers underneath to undergo regeneration, treating multiple skin issues simultaneously.
AgeJET energy is not fractionated to cover only part of the skin but instead uniformly treats the entire dermal architecture, leading to broad-ranging improvements throughout dermal layers, therefore rejuvenating the entire skin structure.
"Everyone was warm, professional, personable and thorough. The practitioner took her time to find out what I wanted and didn’t try to over sell me. I am returning! I highly recommend this place!" - Nina K.
Book NowOur Medical Experts
Founder and Director of Nursing, Linda Behla, RN, works to continually bring cutting edge therapies to her practice. Hayes Valley Med may have been an early U.S. adopter, but already the results show AgeJET is likely to become mainstream, along with tried and true treatments such as lasers and CO2 resurfacers.
Linda and her team have received highest-level training on techniques and the applications of AgeJET.
As with all advanced treatments at Hayes Valley Med, Medical Director Yngvar A. Hvistendahl, MD oversees AgeJET plasma therapies.
At 265 Magnolia Avenue, our professional team welcomes you to this light and airy medspa in the heart of historic Larkspur, Marin
Founder and Director of Nursing, Linda Behla, RN and her team of medical experts look forward to taking great care of you soon
We recommend Alastin Skincare Procedure Enhancing System products to take your plasma treatment results further.
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San Francisco, CA 94102
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