WHAT IS IT?

San Antonio Eyeworks is excited to be one of the few offices in the country to have Tixel. Tixel is a non-invasive skin treatment that uses thermal energy to improve various skin conditions and promote skin rejuvenation. It is often used to address concerns such as wrinkles, saggy skin, under eye dark circles, skin texture irregularities, scars, and sun damage.  Tixel delivers similar results to fractional CO2 laser but without the pain, downtime and risks.

What is it for?

✓ Saggy/excess upper and lower eyelid skin

✓ Under eye dark circles

✓ Crow’s feet and wrinkles

✓ Brow droop 

✓ Crepey skin

✓ Scars

✓ Rosacea

✓ Stretch marks

How it works

TIXEL uses a small heated metal plate of multiple tiny heated cones. This is passed over the face and neck delivering short bursts of heat energy directly to the skin’s surface, without damaging deeper skin tissues. This stimulates collagen production, which in turn tightens the skin.

TIXEL FOR DRY EYES

A surprising thing that was found when treating with TIXEL was the improvement patients noticed at the same time with dry eye.  The heat from the TIXEL has been found to unblock and stimulate the tear production by the small glands around the eye called the Meibomian glands. Ongoing investigations are underway to explore the impact and mode of action of tixel on dry eyes but several clinical studies  have shown not only a decrease in dry eye symptoms but improved tear break up time and tear film osmolarity.