Tixel

TIXEL FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

• What can Tixel treatment achieve?

  Tixel treatment delivers three main outcomes – skin tightening, skin resurfacing, and enhanced drug delivery.

  • Skin tightening improves lines and wrinkles as well as treating sagging skin, dilated pores, and acne scars.
  • Skin resurfacing regenerates the skin by stimulating its natural repair and rejuvenation processes, producing an even tone, reducing pigmentation, and producing a glow. Active acne responds well to skin resurfacing.
  • Tixel creates tiny pores in the skin to allow the penetration of topical skin health medications. Medications might include those that reduce pigmentation, increase collagen production, and relax muscles.

• Does Tixel treatment hurt?

  The contact made with the skin is only momentary, meaning discomfort is minimal when compared to other resurfacing and tightening treatments such as a CO2 laser. Tixel results in significantly less charring and redness.

• Does Tixel treatment have different settings or applications?

  Tixel has a number of settings, which can be divided into two categories – ablative and non-ablative. Tixel Glow is a non-ablative, less intensive treatment with a short recovery period. Non-ablative treatments are suitable for those with less available downtime while the healing process completes.

  Tixel Intense and Tixel Super Intense are ablative treatments which penetrate more deeply into the skin and treat a larger area in a single session.

• How many Tixel treatments should I have?

  This depends on the type of Tixel treatment you’re getting. We will discuss your options during your consultation.

• What areas can Tixel treat?

  • Face
  • Eyelids
  • Neck
  • Décolleté (the upper chest)
  • Backs of the hands

• How should I care for my skin after Tixel treatment?

  For the first two days, a moisturiser should be applied every 3-4 hours and then twice a day until the healing process is complete. Avoid make-up for 2-3 days after an ablative Tixel treatment. It is important not to pick at the treated skin as it heals.