New Technique Help You Change Your Face Without Surgery

They have just found out a new way to re-shape and soften the cartilage without any incision by utilizing electrical current and 3D-printed molds. This is a huge and amazing development which could help to greatly reduce the recovery time for the procedures and also make the whole thing much less painful.

The research featured in the press release of ACS (American Chemical Society) was also presented at the ACS’ 2019 Spring national on last Tuesday meeting. From this research, we could see how they make the cartilage much more malleable after applying an electrical current to it. Cartilage is the thing that makes up the shape of the nose and many other facial features.

Then they will hold the cartilage in place when it hardens up. This new technique could replace the long and dangerous surgical procedures with a simple procedure to give people nose job.

Following a recent press release, we get to know that the doctors discovered this new surgical procedure by accident. At first, the doctors were using infrared lasers to heat up the cartilage. Then because it was so expensive and also kill off many tissues in the heating process - so they tried electricity. The charge of electric works, but not by directly heating up the cartilage. It heats up the cartilage by keep unbalancing the ions electrically-charged which stiffen the cartilage, loosens it and let it be reshaped.

Leaving aside the applicability on plastic surgery that helps people reshape their noses and facial features, the doctors hope this new technique will be used in restoring stiff joints and repairing the deviated septums. Maybe in the future, they could develop this technique more to even fix eyesight and repair corneas.