Over the past few years, vaginal tightening treatments have grown in popularity thanks to the promise that they can help improve your sex life and increase your confidence levels in the bedroom, but what are they actually like to have done and what sort of results does a non-surgical vaginal tightening treatment give? Approximately three years ago, Tanya Bardsley (one of the stars of the reality TV show “Real Housewives of Cheshire”) had a vaginal tightening treatment performed and at the time it was a relatively new treatment in the UK. Since then, the technology has advanced dramatically and women from all stretches of the UK have been flocking to tighten their most delicate area.
How does vaginal tightening work?
Other than the fact that to tighten your vagina the device used during the treatment needs to be used internally, it’s actually very minimally invasive and is completely non-surgical. It is however important to note that you will have absolutely zero modesty during the treatment as your aesthetician will essentially be using a wand-like device to probe your vagina.
The device itself uses ultrasound technology and similar to our HIFU facelift and body treatments, it offers a similar level of rejuvenation by tightening muscle fibers deep beneath the skin. By stimulating the production of collagen within the tissue fibres using a focused delivery of ultrasound energy, the foundation layers of muscle beneath the skin are affected without the need to cut or disrupt the surface layers of tissue. Because ultrasound energy is perfectly safe and has been used for years within other aspects such as surgeries, medical appointments and baby scan, vaginal tightening using HIFU can be performed much more safely than other methods that use things such as lasers to stimulate collagen production.
What happens during the treatment?
To start, your aesthetician will perform a vaginal examination to ensure that the vaginal tightening treatment is definitely required and also that it is safe to perform on you. From here, they prepare the vaginal tightening “wand” before inserting it approximately 4 inches into the vagina. The wand will then pulse ultrasound energy into the deepest layers of vaginal tissue and will be rotated 360 degrees to ensure that the entire vaginal wall is covered.
You’ll want to get comfortable here as this step is repeated a number of times at different depths within the vagina. This is done to make sure that the entire vagina will benefit from the treatment, with the whole process taking on average around 30 minutes (which would even allow you to get it done during your lunch break or on your way home from the office without causing much disruption to your day). Throughout the entire vaginal tightening procedure, it is completely natural to feel a warm and tingly sensation as the ultrasound energy penetrates the tissues and fibres to tighten them, but other than this there is really no form of pain associated with the treatment and some of our patients have even fallen asleep during their vaginal tightening session.
Following your treatment, you are then free to go back to your day to day life and will notice an improvement to the elasticity of your vagina immediately, with major changes and improvements continuing to show for the next 4-6 weeks.
Normally, to achieve the best results, it is advised to have two or three treatments performed around 4 to 6 weeks apart with the effects of this lasting approximately 3 years.