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Renew Your Facial Radiance With Exion Face in Orangevale, CA
There is a real gap between what a facial achieves and what a needling or laser treatment involves. Skin laxity sits in that gap: creams do not reach the tissue responsible, and plenty of people are not ready for downtime, needles, or a recovery period to address it.
Exion Face at SlimCare Solutions in Orangevale, CA works in that space. It combines radiofrequency energy with ultrasound in a treatment that involves no needles and no recovery time, which makes it one of the few options that genuinely fits into a normal week.
What Is Exion Face?
Exion Face is a non-invasive treatment that uses monopolar radiofrequency energy alongside targeted ultrasound to improve skin firmness, texture, and tone. Nothing penetrates the skin. The applicator moves across the surface, and the energy does its work in the layers beneath.
Radiofrequency heats tissue in a controlled way. At the right depth and temperature, that heat prompts the body to produce new collagen and elastin over the weeks and months that follow. The ultrasound component guides and monitors that energy delivery, which is what allows it to be applied consistently across an area rather than unevenly.
The distinction worth understanding is that this is the needle-free option. Exion Fractional RF Microneedling uses the same underlying energy but delivers it through microneedles into the skin, which reaches deeper and produces more change alongside actual downtime. Both are useful; they are aimed at different situations.
Exion Face Before And Afters
How Does Exion Face Work?
Your provider applies gel and moves the applicator across the treatment area in passes. You will feel warmth building, which most patients describe as comfortable rather than uncomfortable, and the sensation stays steady throughout because the device monitors as it goes.
Underneath, that controlled heat is doing two things. It causes immediate contraction of existing collagen, which produces a modest tightening you may notice early, and it triggers the production of new collagen and elastin, which is the change that develops over the following months.
A session takes 30 to 60 minutes depending on the areas treated, and a series is typical rather than a single appointment. Because the effect is cumulative and builds gradually, judging your result after one session will underestimate what a full course achieves.
How Exion Face Compares to the Rest of the Exion Family
SlimCare offers four Exion treatments, and patients are frequently unsure which applies to them. The differences are straightforward once laid out.
- Exion Face: Needle-free RF and ultrasound for facial skin firmness and texture. No downtime. This page.
- Exion Fractional RF Microneedling: Delivers RF through microneedles into the skin, reaching deeper for texture, scarring, and more established laxity. Involves downtime.
- Exion Body: The body applicator, addressing skin laxity and contour below the neck rather than on the face.
- Exion Clear: Targeted at acne, using a different mechanism from the tightening treatments.
If you are deciding between Face and Fractional, the practical question is how much change you need and how much recovery you can accommodate. Face suits early laxity and maintenance with no downtime. Fractional suits more established texture and laxity where you can absorb a few days of recovery.
Benefits of Exion Face in Orangevale, CA
Exion Face addresses skin quality and firmness without needles, downtime, or pigment risk. That combination is what makes it suitable for a particular set of patients rather than everyone.
- Softens Fine Lines and Wrinkles: Stimulates collagen production, which improves the appearance of early lines over the months following treatment.
- Improves Firmness and Elasticity: Addresses early laxity in the face, jawline, and neck through collagen and elastin renewal.
- Refines Texture and Tone: Improves surface quality alongside the bigger structural change.
- No Needles and No Downtime: Nothing penetrates the skin, so you can return to normal activity immediately, including makeup the same day.
- Safe for All Skin Tones: Radiofrequency does not target pigment, which means it carries none of the pigment-change risk that light-based treatments do.
- Comfortable Throughout: Most patients describe the sensation as warmth rather than discomfort, with no numbing required.
Areas Exion Face Treats
Exion Face is used across the face and neck, with settings adjusted for the thickness and sensitivity of each area. Most patients treat the full face and add the neck or décolletage where those show change too.
- Full Face: The most common treatment, working across all areas in a single session.
- Forehead: Addresses early lines and surface texture across the upper face.
- Around the Eyes (Periorbital Area): Treated with adjusted settings, as the skin here is thinner than elsewhere.
- Cheeks: The largest area of the face and where firmness changes are often most visible.
- Midface: Addresses the loss of support that changes facial shape over time.
- Nasolabial Folds: Softens the appearance of the lines running from nose to mouth.
- Marionette Lines: Treats the lines running downward from the corners of the mouth.
- Perioral Area (Around the Mouth): Improves fine texture and firmness around the lips.
- Chin: Addresses laxity and texture across the lower face.
- Jawline: One of the most requested areas, improving definition where the jawline has softened.
- Jowls: Targets early descent of tissue along the lower jaw.
- Submental Area (Under the Chin): Addresses laxity beneath the chin.
- Neck: Treats crepey texture and looseness where surface treatments generally fall short.
- Décolletage: Extends treatment to the chest, which often shows change earlier than the face.
Concerns Exion Face Addresses
The common thread is skin quality and early laxity. Where the change is more advanced, a deeper treatment or a surgical option will serve you better, and you should be told that.
- Fine Lines and Wrinkles: Softens their appearance through collagen renewal rather than by filling or relaxing.
- Skin Laxity and Loss of Firmness: The core indication, where skin has lost the firmness it once had.
- Sagging Facial Skin: Early descent, addressed before it becomes advanced.
- Early Jowling: The beginning of tissue descent along the jaw, where non-invasive treatment is most effective.
- Loss of Jawline Definition: Where the line between face and neck has softened.
- Loss of Midface Support: The flattening and descent that changes facial shape over time.
- Declining Collagen and Elastin Production: The underlying process behind most of the concerns above.
- Crepey Skin Texture: Fine crinkling where skin has thinned and lost elasticity.
- Uneven Skin Texture: Surface irregularity that makes skin feel and look rough.
- Dull or Tired-Looking Skin: Improves how evenly the skin reflects light as quality improves.
- Dehydrated Skin: Supports the skin’s own hydration mechanisms alongside the structural change.
- Loss of Skin Elasticity: Addresses the reduced snap-back that accompanies collagen decline.
- Loose Neck Skin: Early laxity in the neck, where surface treatments have limited effect.
- Early Signs of Aging: Treats change while it is still early, which is where this treatment performs best.
Who Exion Face Is For
Good candidates have early to moderate skin laxity and want improvement without needles, downtime, or a recovery period. It is a particularly good fit for patients who cannot accommodate downtime, and for anyone nervous about more invasive treatment.
It also suits patients maintaining results from a more intensive treatment, and anyone whose skin tone makes light-based options riskier. Because radiofrequency does not target pigment, Exion Face carries none of the pigment-change risk that lasers and IPL do in deeper skin tones.
It is a poorer fit where laxity is advanced. Significant sagging generally needs either a deeper treatment such as Exion Fractional or a surgical solution, and a non-invasive device will not achieve what those do. Being told that clearly is more useful than a course that disappoints.
Treatment is avoided over active infection, open skin, or an active rash in the area, and with certain implanted electronic devices. Your history is reviewed at consultation before treatment is planned.
What to Expect During and After Treatment
Your appointment begins with cleansing and an assessment of the areas being treated. Gel is applied, and the applicator is moved across the skin in passes, with warmth building steadily as the session progresses.
Most patients find it comfortable. The sensation is warmth rather than heat; no numbing is required, and a number of people describe it as relaxing. A full-face session takes 30 to 60 minutes depending on how many areas are included.
Afterward, the skin may look slightly flushed for an hour or so, similar to mild sun exposure. There is no recovery period. You can wear makeup the same day, return to work immediately, and exercise normally. Daily sunscreen is worth maintaining, as it is with any treatment prompting collagen renewal.
How Long Do Exion Face Results Last?
The improvement develops gradually over the months following your course as new collagen forms, so the result at two weeks is not the result you will keep. Most patients see continued change for three to six months after their final session.
Results are not permanent, because the natural decline in collagen continues regardless. Most patients maintain their result with periodic sessions rather than repeating a full course, and your provider will discuss a maintenance schedule based on how your skin responds.
What Exion Face Works Alongside
Exion Face addresses firmness and texture. It has no effect on movement lines, volume loss, or pigment, which is why it usually forms part of a plan rather than the whole of one.
- Exion Fractional RF Microneedling: The deeper option in the same family, for texture, scarring, and more established laxity.
- EMFace: Addresses facial muscle tone and lift rather than skin quality, which is a genuinely different mechanism and frequently paired with this.
- Volulift: Addresses volume, which tightening does not restore.
- CO2Lift: A treatment supporting skin quality and hydration, often used between sessions.
- Aesthetic Services: The full range of aesthetic treatments offered at SlimCare.
Why Choose SlimCare Solutions for Exion Face
The device is the same wherever you go. What differs is whether anyone assesses which of the four Exion treatments actually suits your concern, or simply books you for the one you asked about.
- Doctorate-Level Clinical Leadership: Timothy Egan, DMSc, PA-C holds a Doctorate in Medical Science from Lynchburg University, completed an emergency medicine residency at the University of Kentucky, and is board certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.
- The Full Exion Range Available: With Face, Fractional, Body, and Clear all offered here, the recommendation reflects your concern rather than the single device on hand.
- Honest About What It Will Achieve: Where your laxity is advanced enough to need a deeper treatment or a surgical option, you will be told rather than sold a course that underdelivers.
- Suitable for All Skin Tones: Radiofrequency does not target pigment, and that advantage is explained rather than assumed.
- Part of a Wider Wellness Approach: Aesthetic treatment here sits alongside metabolic, hormonal, and nutritional care rather than in isolation.
- Featured on Fox 40: SlimCare Solutions has been recognized in regional media for its approach to medically guided wellness.
Cost and Payment Options
Exion Face is priced by session and by the areas treated, and because a series is typical rather than a single appointment, the useful figure to discuss is the cost of a full course. Package pricing is generally more economical than paying per session.
Your quote is given at consultation once the areas and likely session count are agreed. You will know the full commitment before starting rather than discovering it partway through a course.
Patient Financing: Cherry payment plans are available and commonly used for treatment courses. The application takes a few minutes and carries no obligation.
Areas We Serve
SlimCare Solutions is located on Madison Avenue in Orangevale, CA. We see patients from across the greater Sacramento area, with many traveling from nearby communities.
- Cardwell Colony
- Town Center
- Arden Bluff
- East Sac
- Roseville
- Rocklin
- Elk Grove
- Folsom
- El Dorado Hills
- Granite Bay
- Sacramento
- Citrus Heights
- Fair Oaks
- Loomis
Frequently Asked Questions
What Is the Difference Between Exion Face and Microneedling or Laser Treatments?
The clearest difference is that Exion Face involves no needles and nothing penetrates the skin. Exion Fractional RF Microneedling delivers the same type of energy through microneedles, which reaches deeper and produces more change but involves genuine downtime. Exion Face works from the surface with no recovery period.
Compared with laser, the difference is what the energy targets. Lasers target pigment, which is why they address tone and sun damage well and carry pigment-change risk in deeper skin tones. Radiofrequency heats tissue without targeting pigment, so it addresses firmness rather than tone and is safe across all skin types.
How Much Does Exion Face Cost in Orangevale, CA?
Cost depends on the areas treated and the number of sessions in your course. Because a series is typical rather than a single appointment, the figure worth discussing is the total across the course, and package pricing is generally more economical than paying per session.
Your quote is provided at consultation once the plan is agreed. Cherry payment plans are available for patients who would prefer to spread the cost.
How Many Exion Face Sessions Will I Need?
A series is typical, with the exact number depending on your starting point and what you are treating. Early laxity generally needs fewer sessions than more established change, and your provider will give you a specific recommendation after assessing your skin.
Maintenance sessions afterward are usual rather than a sign the course did not work. The natural decline in collagen continues regardless of treatment, so periodic sessions hold the result rather than rebuilding it.
What Should I Expect During and After a Session?
During treatment, you will feel warmth building as the applicator moves across the skin. Most patients find it comfortable, and no numbing is needed. A session runs 30 to 60 minutes depending on the areas included.
Afterward, your skin may look slightly flushed for an hour or so. There is no downtime at all, so you can wear makeup the same day, return to work immediately, and exercise normally. The visible improvement develops over the following months rather than appearing straight away.
Can Exion Face Be Used on Darker Skin Tones?
Yes, and this is one of its genuine advantages. Radiofrequency heats tissue without targeting melanin, which means it does not carry the risk of pigment change that light-based and laser treatments do in deeper skin tones.
That makes Exion Face a good option for patients who have been told laser or IPL carries a higher risk for their skin. Your skin is still assessed at consultation, but skin tone is not a limiting factor for this treatment in the way it is for others.
Does RF Skin Tightening Really Work?
It works within a specific range, and being clear about that range is more useful than a straight yes. Radiofrequency stimulates collagen production, which improves firmness and texture where laxity is early to moderate. Those improvements are gradual and develop over months rather than appearing immediately.
Where laxity is advanced, a non-invasive device will not achieve what a deeper treatment or surgery does, and no amount of sessions will change that. The honest version is that Exion Face performs well for the concern it is designed for and poorly outside it.
How Long Does Facial Rejuvenation Last?
Improvement continues developing for three to six months after your final session as new collagen forms, then holds for a period that varies between individuals. Results are not permanent, because the natural decline in collagen carries on regardless.
Most patients maintain their result with periodic sessions rather than repeating a full course. Your provider will suggest a maintenance interval based on how your skin has responded.
Is the Exion Face Procedure Uncomfortable?
Most patients describe it as warmth rather than discomfort, and a number find it relaxing. No numbing is required, and nothing penetrates the skin. If the heat builds beyond what feels comfortable at any point, tell your provider and the settings are adjusted.
Can Exion Face Enhance Other Treatments?
Yes, and it is frequently planned alongside others because it addresses only firmness and texture. It combines naturally with treatments working on volume, muscle tone, or pigment, each of which does something Exion Face does not.
EMFace is a common pairing, since it addresses facial muscle tone rather than skin quality. Timing between treatments matters, so your provider will sequence them rather than performing everything at once.
Who Is an Ideal Candidate for Exion Face?
Adults with early to moderate skin laxity who want improvement without needles or downtime. It suits patients who cannot accommodate recovery time, anyone nervous about more invasive treatment, and patients whose skin tone makes light-based options riskier.
It is not the right choice where laxity is advanced, where a deeper treatment or surgical option would serve you better. It is also avoided over active infection or open skin, and with certain implanted electronic devices.
Book an Exion Face Consultation in Orangevale, CA
If you want firmer skin without needles or downtime, the useful first step is finding out whether Exion Face will reach the change you are after or whether a deeper treatment suits you better. That answer comes from an assessment rather than a brochure.
Call (916) 579-7546 or book your consultation at SlimCare Solutions, 9352 Madison Ave, Ste 3, Orangevale, CA 95662. We are open Tuesday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
