“New Skin Technology Offers Patients Results of Facelift Without Invasive Cosmetic Surgery.” Where have I heard that before? Only about everywhere! This is the singly most-repeated line of BS in all of plastic surgery. Ever since I became a plastic surgeon, every year or two some person or company makes this claim. And 100% of the time their claims to date have been summarily disproven.
Interestingly enough, these claims are usually made by non-surgeons.

This new laser skin tightening technology, called Sciton SkinTyte, thermally targets dermal regions in the skin, initiating the body’s natural healing process and prompting the production of collagen. This new technology is very effective for areas of the body where gravity and age have taken a toll and is most commonly used to treat loose, sagging skin on the abdomen, jowls and neck. Read entire article HERE

I can understand their motivation: they can’t do surgery, and so they make ridiculous comments. But the doctor quoted in this story shows beautiful facelift results on his site: http://www.drzubowski.com/photogallery/facelift-2855“. In fact, his results are about as good as I’ve ever seen. If those results can be achieved with a laser, let me know. If not, then we shouldn’t be saying “results of a facelift without invasive cosmetic surgery.”

In his defense – and I don’t know him – let me say that I’ve been misquoted myself in press releases sent out by manufacturers.
So assuming this was the manufacturer, and not the surgeon – where is the data to support such a statement? I couldn’t find a single scientific article in the medical literature, nor could I find any photo on the internet that even remotely approached the kind of results seen with a facelift. If I missed it – apologize. Please send me the links and I will print a retraction.