HIFU: An Good Alternative To Facelift

HIFU can be a good alternative for patients who are looking for non-surgical alternatives to facelift. HIFU is a non-invasive treatment, which requires very little to no recovery time. 
hifu technology uses ultrasound energy which penetrates very deeply and uniformly into the skin and underlying connective tissue resulting in a nonsurgical lifting and tightening of the skin. This high intensity Ultrasound creates small thermal coagulation points which sets off a response in which collagen is remodeled and new collagen is grown. This helps with the contour and tightness of the areas treated. 
hifu therapy affect the collagen generation at a fairly deep level so the collagen renewal you get from the procedure has some significant staying power. But you won't stop aging and you can't prevent collagen breakdown. This means eventually you will require another treatment to provide another collagen-inducing event.
The biggest factor in how long your hifu lifting will last is how robustly your body responds to collagen stimulation. Aging never stops. There is a continuous cycle of collagen breakdown and generation. As we age that cycle leans heavier on the breakdown events instead of the generation.
The duration of the effect that hifu procedure has on tightening and lifting is expected to be more than one year based on new collagen growth, not just tightening the connective tissue.The results can last anywhere from 1-3 years before needing to re-treat in order to maintain results. The longevity of the results depends on your body’s ability to produce, maintain and breakdown collagen.
hifu facial treatment can be repeated in 6 to 12 months. Collagen typically takes this long to develop so waiting this long between treatments will allow you to better assess how much improvement you got in order to determine if repeating HIFU is necessary and or/worth the investment. 
There is no downtime with HIFU and no "recovery time" unless you took prescription medications to help with the pain management during the procedure. In that case, you would have limitations on your activities such as driving until the medication had worn off.