Step 1
Shielded and Numbed
The skin is cleansed, the eyes are covered with protective shields and a local anaesthetic settles the treatment area. You stay awake and comfortable throughout.
Your after photograph takes months to develop. Here is what Endolift changes at week one, month two, month four and month six, how to read a before and after, and why it still looks like you.
On the way home from treatment you photograph your jaw, and it looks almost exactly like that morning’s picture. A week later the fuller days make it look softer still. Endolift at Cannelle Skin Clinic in Summertown, Oxford is a slow photograph. The after picture develops over months, like a print surfacing in a darkroom tray.
| Performed by | Treatment | Back to normal | Results last |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Mattia Parducci, GMC 7635663 | 60 to 90 minutes, local anaesthetic | Within 24 to 72 hours | Typically two to three years |
Dr Mattia Parducci (GMC 7635663) plans and performs every Endolift here himself. A hair-thin fibre, about 300 microns wide, slips beneath the skin through one tiny entry point and delivers laser energy where the laxity sits. An Endolift before and after is really two pictures taken months apart, with your own collagen doing the work between them.
The clever part is that the change keeps going after you leave. The tissue contracts on the day, which gives the first faint outline. Fresh collagen then builds beneath the skin, with the clearest change between two and four months and refinement continuing to six. By the time the picture has fully developed, nothing has been added to your face.
Skin that softens along the jaw has usually taken years to do it. Collagen thins gradually, the tissue beneath loosens its hold, and a small pocket of fat can settle under the chin or beside the mouth. None of it is a failure of your skincare. The change lives below the reach of any cream, in the layer Endolift is designed to treat.
Collagen rebuilds at its own unhurried pace, firming the skin over three to six months. That pace is why the after picture arrives slowly, and it is also why the result looks like you. Nothing is stretched or filled, so the face that develops in the photograph is your own, held a little closer to the bone.
Picture a woman of forty-eight who books after seeing herself in a group photograph from a christening. She half expects a difference by the weekend. What she sees instead is a jaw that firms a little more each month, until a photograph at Christmas shows a line she had stopped expecting. Because it arrived slowly, the people around her simply think she looks well.
With the area numbed by local anaesthetic, Dr Mattia moves the fibre beneath the skin in slow, careful passes. You feel mild pressure and warmth, and most people rate it two to three out of ten. The laser contracts the tissue as he works. Where a small fat pocket sits along the jowls or under the chin, it reduces that too.
That contraction is the first faint image on the print. The deeper change follows as the skin lays down fresh collagen. In an animal study, a subdermal laser left better arranged collagen and a thicker dermis than a placebo treatment. It is early research, and it matches the steady firming people see between the second and fourth month.
Treatment takes 60 to 90 minutes and is usually a single session. A small sterile dressing covers the entry point, with no stitches, and most people are back to normal activities within 24 to 72 hours. Mild swelling peaks around days four to seven. A photograph from that week records healing in progress, so it belongs in the album rather than the comparison.
Photographs of other faces are useful once you know how to read them. Look for the same light, angle and relaxed expression in both frames, because a lowered chin flatters almost any jaw. Clinicians regard standardised photography as crucial for clinical documentation for exactly this reason. Then look at the jaw edge, the curve beside the mouth and the angle under the chin.
The photographs on our Endolift treatment page come courtesy of Dr Joney De Souza Skin & Laser, our sister clinic in London. Each pair is labelled that way, and the pairs in this article come from Endolift UK. None of these faces belong to Cannelle patients. We show them because they illustrate the kind of change the treatment is designed to bring.
Notice what stays the same as well. The cheeks keep their shape, the smile is unchanged and the features sit exactly where they did. The firmness comes from your own tissue tightening and your own collagen rebuilding. That is why the second frame shows the same face, with a cleaner edge running from the chin towards the ear.
In the first week the print is still pale. The jaw sets a little firmer on the day, then the fuller days soften the picture again for a while. By the end of the second week the swelling has largely settled, and saunas, steam rooms and hot yoga come back into your routine. Keep the camera in your pocket until then.
Between the second and fourth month the image sharpens. Fresh collagen firms the skin along the jaw and under the chin, and the edge starts to catch the light again. A collar sits flat against the neck, and a scarf drapes over the jaw rather than gathering beneath it. This is usually when friends start to say you look well.
Refinement continues to around six months, which is the fairest moment to set your two photographs side by side. A small 2026 study of facial endolaser treatment photographed patients before and at six months after a single session, and its treating doctors judged most faces improved. From there the result typically holds for two to three years.
Fresh collagen firms the skin along the jaw and under the chin, and the edge starts to catch the light again.
Starting points shape the size of the change. Endolift suits mild to moderate laxity, most often in people aged roughly 35 to 65, and it works on all skin types and tones. For more pronounced laxity Dr Mattia sometimes advises a second session at six to twelve months. Where the surface wants attention too, skin boosters such as Profhilo refine the skin over the new line.
Here is a small habit worth starting. Before your appointment, stand by the same window at the same hour. Take one photograph face on and one from each side, chin level and expression relaxed. Repeat it at month two, month four and month six. Those frames will show the slow photograph developing on your own face.
Your first visit is a face-to-face consultation with Dr Mattia in our Summertown rooms. He studies your jaw from the front and in profile, checks how the skin moves and agrees the area with you. If HIFU, Morpheus8 or a skin booster would suit your face better, he tells you so. Our page on jowls and a sagging jawline sets out the wider options.
Endolift starts from £1,350, with the price varying by area and confirmed at your consultation. The prices page lists each area on its own line. One session is the usual plan, and your consultation gives the real number for you, along with a clear sense of what your second photograph should show.
People come to Summertown from Kidlington and Woodstock for this appointment, and from right across Oxfordshire. Ready to take your own before picture? Read more about Endolift with Dr Mattia, then get in touch and we will find a time.
Six moments from one Endolift appointment with Dr Mattia Parducci, photographed at MediZen, our sister clinic. Tap a photograph to read what is happening.
Step 1
The skin is cleansed, the eyes are covered with protective shields and a local anaesthetic settles the treatment area. You stay awake and comfortable throughout.
Step 2
The only thing that goes beneath the skin is an optical fibre about 300 microns across, slipped in through a single tiny entry point. No incisions and no stitches.
Step 3
Dr Mattia guides the fibre just under the skin along the jawline, steadying the tissue with his other hand. Most people feel mild pressure and warmth.
Step 4
The red glow is the guide light, showing exactly where the laser energy is working. The tissue contracts as it goes, so some tightening shows on the day.
Step 5
Each area, from the jowl to the cheek, is treated in slow passes. A whole session takes 60 to 90 minutes, depending on how many areas are planned.
Step 6
A small sterile dressing covers the entry point. Fresh collagen keeps firming the skin over the next three to six months, with the clearest change at two to four.
Meet Dr Mattia Parducci in Summertown and find out what Endolift could change along your jaw over the coming months. Call 01865 537885 or message us on WhatsApp, and the team will find a time that suits you.
These are the questions people bring once they have studied the photographs and want to know how their own jaw would change. Anything else, Dr Mattia will happily answer when you meet him in Summertown.
Some tightening shows on the day, because the tissue contracts as the laser works. The fuller days then blur the picture for the first week or so. The clearest change arrives between months two and four as fresh collagen forms, and refinement continues to around six months, which is the fairest moment to compare your photographs side by side.
No. The pairs on our Endolift page come courtesy of Dr Joney De Souza Skin and Laser, our sister clinic in London, and the pairs in this article come from Endolift UK. Each is labelled with its source. We show them because they illustrate the change Endolift is designed to bring, and your own result is judged on your own photographs.
That is the swelling, and it follows a predictable pattern. Mild swelling and tenderness, sometimes with a small bruise, peak around days four to seven and settle with simple pain relief, and most of it has gone within about two weeks. The jaw beneath is already tightening, and the photographs worth keeping come later.
They tend to notice that you look well, and few guess why. Nothing is added to the face, so your features, your smile and the shape of your cheeks stay exactly as they were. The change sits along the jaw and under the chin, where a cleaner edge catches the light, and it arrives gradually over months.
Typically two to three years from a single session. The firmness is built from your own collagen, so it improves for months after treatment and then holds for a long stretch. A top-up around the two to three year point keeps the line fresh, and for pronounced laxity a second session at six to twelve months is sometimes advised.
For most people, yes. Endolift is usually a single session, with tightening on the day and collagen firming the skin over the following three to six months. Where laxity is more pronounced or a fat pocket is larger, a second session can take the result further. Dr Mattia agrees the number that applies to your jaw at your first appointment.
Endolift starts from £1,350 at Cannelle Skin Clinic for the area under the chin. The price varies with the area treated, from under the chin to the lower face or the neck, and it is confirmed at your consultation once the exact area has been agreed. Every area is listed on our prices page.
Stand by the same window at the same time of day, keep your chin level and your expression relaxed, and take one picture face on and one from each side. Repeat the set at month two, month four and month six. Matching light and angle matter more than the camera, and your own pairs will tell the story clearly.
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