Lift, tighten, and stimulate collagen — naturally.
PDO (polydioxanone) threads provide a minimally invasive way to improve facial contours while stimulating your body's natural collagen production. Depending on your goals, PDO threads can be used to gently lift sagging tissues, improve skin firmness, or enhance skin quality with smooth collagen-stimulating threads. At Ivy Wellness & Aesthetics, every treatment plan is customized to your anatomy and aesthetic goals for natural-looking results.
Smooth PDO threads are placed beneath the skin to stimulate collagen production without creating significant lifting. They are ideal for improving fine lines, crepey skin, skin texture, and overall firmness in areas such as the cheeks, neck, jawline, chest (décolletage), and other areas showing early collagen loss.
Lifting threads use specially designed barbed threads to reposition and support selected facial tissues while also stimulating collagen over time. They may be used to improve the cheeks, jawline, lower face, brows, neck, and other carefully selected areas in appropriate candidates.
For patients seeking a nonsurgical facelift, the Ivy Signature Lift™ combines lifting PDO threads with other treatments when appropriate to improve facial contours and overall balance. Every treatment is designed to restore facial harmony rather than focusing on a single area.
As a physician-led practice, thread placement is planned with careful attention to facial anatomy, safety, and long-term aesthetic balance. Treatments are individualized and may be combined with other regenerative or injectable procedures when appropriate to optimize results.
Threads sit in tissue planes, and knowing which plane you are in is the whole job. Dr. Ivy Lawson is a double board-certified vascular and interventional radiologist, and the diagnostic ultrasound at the Ivy Ultrasound Center is part of how anatomy is assessed here rather than estimated. You will also get an honest answer about whether threads are the right tool for your degree of laxity — for some patients, they are not. Patients travel to our Flamingo Road practice from Cooper City, Davie, Weston, Pembroke Pines and Southwest Ranches, and both smooth thread treatments and thread procedures carry member rates through Ivy Wellness memberships.
Threads are introduced through a small entry point and carried under the skin on a fine needle or cannula. Thread procedures are typically carried out with local anesthetic at the entry points, and where that is used it is usually the sharpest part of the appointment. After that, most patients report pressure, movement and a distinct tugging as the thread is positioned and the tissue is drawn into place — unfamiliar rather than sharp, but not nothing.
Lifting threads involve more of that sensation than smooth collagen threads do. For several days afterward the area commonly feels tight and tender, particularly on wide smiling or chewing. Tolerance varies. Because this is a planned procedure rather than a walk-in treatment, how it will be carried out and which comfort measures suit you are settled with Dr. Lawson at your consultation.
Threads are priced by the thread. What varies is which threads your face needs and how many of them, and both answers are anatomical rather than negotiable.
Candidacy comes before cost here. If your laxity is beyond what threads can hold, you will be told so at your complimentary consultation rather than sold a lift that will not last. If you are a candidate, you leave knowing the thread plan and its cost before anything is booked. The Restore membership carries member pricing on thread procedures, and financing is available for combined lifts staged over time.
PDO threads are absorbable medical sutures used to stimulate collagen and, depending on the type of thread, improve skin quality or provide lifting support.
Smooth threads primarily stimulate collagen and improve skin texture, while lifting threads are designed to reposition and support selected tissues while also stimulating collagen.
Common treatment areas include the cheeks, jawline, neck, brows, lower face, chest (décolletage), and selected areas of the body depending on the treatment plan.
The threads gradually dissolve, but collagen stimulation continues. Longevity varies by thread type, treatment area, and individual factors.
Yes. PDO threads are frequently combined with dermal fillers, Sculptra®, PRP, PRP Gel, neurotoxin, and energy-based treatments as part of a comprehensive facial rejuvenation plan.
Patients with mild to moderate skin laxity who desire natural-looking rejuvenation without surgery may be good candidates after an evaluation.
Threads are priced by the thread, so the cost follows which threads your face needs and how many. Smooth collagen threads and barbed lifting threads differ, and the count is set by how much laxity there is. Candidacy is assessed first, and both the thread plan and its cost are given at your complimentary consultation.
Thread procedures are typically carried out with local anesthetic at the entry points, and where that is used it is usually the sharpest part of the appointment. After that, most patients describe pressure and a distinct tugging as the thread is positioned rather than sharp pain. The area commonly feels tight and tender for several days. Tolerance varies, and how your procedure will be carried out is agreed with Dr. Lawson at your consultation.
Book a consultation with Dr. Ivy Lawson for a straight assessment of your skin laxity and the options that fit it.
Reviewed by Ivy Lawson, MD · Physician — Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Last reviewed September 2026. About Dr. Lawson
