It’s the simple way to have a younger-looking, beautifully contoured neckline. The iGuide®2.0 Surgical Suture System offers an unprecedented, minimally-invasive technology that in many cases can be performed without general anesthesia and with minimal incisions, resulting in great benefits for both patients and doctors.
Now you can enjoy natural-looking results with minimal recovery time. Which means you’ll be back to work and back in the gym in days, compared to weeks or months with traditional invasive procedures.
Meet creator Gregory Mueller, M.D., F.A.C.S. After performing traditional neck, brow and face lifts, Dr. Mueller became dissatisfied with invasive methods. The inconsistent results, side effects, length of recovery and risk of nerve or muscle damage were just unacceptable. He knew there had to be a better way. The iGuide®2.0 is the answer.
The iGuide®2.0 has FDA clearance, for soft tissue approximation and elevation of sub-dermis and underlying muscle. In properly selected patients iGuide®2.0 provides a technique to improve the neck, jawline, and brow with minimal incisions as compared to traditional techniques—with minimal swelling, bruising, and scarring and decreased recovery time. The iGuide®2.0 was developed by board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Gregory Mueller to improve neck, face, and brow contours resulting from aging and inherited through genetics.
The iGuide®2.0 provides patients with a minimally invasive surgical option that delivers consistent, natural-looking results, while leaving minimal to no swelling or bruising, and reducing the possibility of muscle or nerve damage that can occur with traditional necklift procedures. Additionally, the iGuide®2.0 allows procedures to be performed quickly and in many cases using local anesthesia alone.
Recovery times with iGuide®2.0 are short. Generally, patients are able to return to work within a few days and can resume physical exercise in a week or two. Your physician will be able to give you a clear idea of how short your recovery time will be.
The iGuide®2.0 is excellent as a stand-alone technology to elevate and shape the eyebrows or reshape the neck. It also makes a perfect complement to help improve results if you are having a facelift. The system was designed to help surgeons improve a sagging neckline, face or brow due to aging or genetics without all the cutting. The surgical system has provided positive results with the following patient groups:
- Male patients who traditionally have more muscle in the face and neck area.
- Patients looking for a surgical “touch-up” to improve visible sagging neck muscles (better known as “turkey gobbler neck”) following a neck and face procedure or liposuction.
- Patients needing a “bridge procedure” to sustain attractive neck or other contours, which helps avoid the necessity of undergoing invasive procedures more frequently.
- Younger patients who are looking to improve abnormal or unattractive neck muscle contours acquired through genetics, without invasive surgery and visible incisions.
- Patients who want a brow lift but would like to avoid procedures that require drilling into the skull.
- Patients who want to reshape the eyebrows without invasive surgery and visible scars.
- Patients who want a brow lift or neck rejuvenation procedure easily and safely using only local anesthesia.
To find an iGuide®2.0 doctor in your area, please visit our “Find a Doctor” page or call Black & Black Surgical at 1-877-252-2517 for more information.
Costs for the technology will vary depending on where you live and your surgeon. However, iGuide®2.0 is typically more affordable for patients because they usually have shorter surgery times, less physician follow-up, and local anesthesia may be used in many cases.
In properly selected patients iGuide®2.0 provides a technique to improve the neck, jawline, and brow with minimal incisions as compared to traditional techniques—with minimal swelling, bruising, and scarring and decreased recovery time. Adverse effects associated with the use of this device include wound dehiscence, infection, minimal inflammatory tissue reaction, bleeding, nerve injury and transitory local irritation at the wound site. As with any surgical device it is important for the surgeon to have proper surgical training and an understanding of how to utilize the iGuide®2.0.
