How Many Thermage Shots

Thermage shot counts

How many Thermage shots do I need?

The short answer

The number follows the area being treated and how many passes each zone needs, and the doctor fixes it after examining your face. At Rewind Plastic Surgery the full-face Thermage FLX plan is published at 600 shots, the eye area has its own plans at 225 and 450 shots on a separate tip, and a 900-shot plan appears inside the clinic's elasticity package. Rewind publishes no recommended count for a single zone, so a jawline-only or neck-only figure is worked out at consultation.

Counts come from Rewind's published treatment list and package descriptions. No count on this page is a promise about the size of a result.

Each shot is a single burst of radiofrequency from the handpiece. The tip that delivers it is sealed, single-use and coded for a fixed number of pulses, so the count on a plan is also the size of the tip that will be opened for you.

Patients often arrive with a number picked up online, usually 300, 600 or 900. The more useful question is what the count will be spent on. The sections below show how coverage, passes and energy share one count, and where extra shots stop adding anything. Background on the device itself sits on the Thermage FLX overview.

Count, coverage, energy

Why more Thermage shots add coverage and passes, and leave energy alone

Three things go into a plan: the area covered, the number of passes laid over it, and the energy of each pulse. The shot count measures the first two.

01Energy

Energy is chosen zone by zone

The energy of each pulse is set against the skin under the tip and the sensation you report during treatment. A bigger plan does nothing to raise it.

02Passes

Passes build the response

Published technique for this device uses lower energy delivered over several passes, working toward a visible end point in the tissue. Extra shots let the operator lay more passes where a zone needs them.

03Coverage

Coverage takes the remainder

Whatever is not spent on passes goes to area. A bigger count can reach the neck as well as the face, or give each zone more passes than a smaller count allows.

04Limit

Where the count stops helping

The published algorithm works toward a clinical end point, after which a zone is left alone. Tissue that has descended does not reposition at any count, and the doctor will say when that is the case.

Pricing by count

What each Thermage shot count costs at Rewind

Each published count carries one figure. Volnewmer lines appear underneath because patients often set its counts beside Thermage's; the two devices count on separate scales, so compare the plans as wholes.

Each line is shown net of value-added tax, and an anaesthetic fee, where one applies, is part of the line already. The 900-shot count is sold only inside the elasticity package, which is quoted at consultation. A jawline-only or neck-only plan has no published figure and is priced once the doctor has seen the area.

After the session

Does a larger Thermage count change the aftercare?

Rewind gives the same written instructions after a Thermage session whatever the count. A larger plan covers more skin, so the same four points simply apply to more of the face.

Burns and blisters, redness that outstays the first days, altered feeling in the skin and, less often, a hollow from fat loss under the treated area are all described for monopolar radiofrequency. A larger count leaves these risks in place, and energy is still set zone by zone. Tell the doctor about filler, threads or other energy treatments in the area.

Questions

Thermage shot counts: questions before booking