Merz Ulthera Ultherapy PRIME

ULTHERAPY PRIME

Merz Ulthera Ultherapy PRIME is an advanced micro-focused ultrasound system featuring enhanced visualization with a larger screen, faster processing, and improved ergonomics, delivering precise thermal coagulation points (TCPs) at 1.5, 3.0, and 4.5mm depths for lifting and tightening skin on the face, neck, décolleté, arms, and abdomen, promoting collagen synthesis with consistent temperatures of 60-70°C for gradual, long-lasting results.

Key Advantages of PRIME:

• Enhanced Visualization: See skin layers up to 8mm deep for personalized, precise treatment.
• Improved Workflow: Larger screen and faster processing for more intuitive treatment.
• Broadened Capabilities: FDA-cleared for more body areas than previous models.

How it works

• Focused Ultrasound: Delivers thermal energy to precise depths (1.5mm, 3.0mm, 4.5mm) in the skin, creating tiny coagulation points.
• Real-Time Visualization (DeepSEE): Allows practitioners to see the exact layers being treated, ensuring accurate and personalized energy delivery, unlike older systems.
• Collagen Stimulation: The heat triggers the body’s natural wound-healing response, stimulating the production of new, stronger collagen and elastin over weeks and months.

Key benefits

• Non-invasive: No surgery, peeling, or surface trauma.
• No Downtime: Patients can resume normal activities immediately.
• Precision: Real-time imaging ensures accuracy.
• Versatile: FDA-cleared for face, neck, décolleté, and body (arms, abdomen).
• Long-lasting: Results can last a year or more.

Who it’s for

• Individuals with mild to moderate skin laxity who aren’t ready for surgery.
• Those seeking natural-looking lift and tightening.
• People wanting a treatment with no downtime, notes Remedy Skin + Body, according to sources.
• Key Differences Between the Ultherapy Prime and Regular Ultherapy
• Ultherapy Prime is the newer, upgraded version of the original Ultherapy system, offering enhanced precision, comfort, and speed through advanced software, a larger high-resolution screen, faster processing, and a more ergonomic handpiece, allowing for more accurate energy delivery, treatment of smaller areas, and a generally gentler, quicker procedure with the same collagen-boosting results.

Visualization & Precision:

• Prime: Features a larger, high-resolution screen (19-inch) and a wider ultrasound field, giving providers clearer, real-time imaging for better targeting and more precise energy placement.
• Original: Has a smaller screen and less advanced visualization.

Comfort & Speed:

• Prime: Faster treatment delivery, shorter sessions (around 20% faster), and a more comfortable experience with less pain and minimal post-treatment swelling due to improved energy delivery.
• Original: Can be slower and potentially less comfortable.

Technology & Performance:

• Prime: Utilizes a dual-core processor for instant response, nearly double the boot-up speed, and improved software for greater efficiency.
• Original: Lacks these advanced processing and speed enhancements.

Targeting & Versatility:

• Prime: The enhanced control makes it excellent for smaller, delicate areas (like under-eyes, jawline) and subtle refinements, offering more customizable treatments.
• Original: While effective, it’s less optimized for very precise targeting of tiny areas.

Results: 

Both systems stimulate collagen and provide natural lifting, but Prime’s precision can lead to more consistent or refined outcomes, especially in complex areas, without changing the fundamental result or longevity.

SPECIFICATIONS

• Technology: Micro-focused ultrasound with DeepSEE>> real-time imaging.
• Treatment Depths: Targets 1.5mm, 3.0mm, and 4.5mm.
• Visualization: 35% larger 19-inch screen, 2x larger ultrasound field, reduced noise, clearer imaging up to 8mm deep.
• Performance: Faster processing (10x faster dual-core), faster refresh rate, instant response.
• Energy Delivery: Precise, consistent coagulative temperatures (60–70°C) to create thermal coagulation points (TCPs).
• Indications (FDA-Cleared): Face, neck, décolleté, abdomen, anterior arms, posterior arms (improving skin laxity, lines, wrinkles).
• Handpiece: Integrated SEE (imaging) and TREAT (therapy) buttons, interchangeable transducers.
• Results: Gradual lift over 2-3 months, visible improvements for up to 6 months, with results lasting a year or more.

Core Platform Hardware

• Touchscreen Interface: Features a 19-inch, high-resolution capacitive touchscreen, which is 35% larger than the previous 15-inch model.
• Processing Performance: Equipped with a new dual-core processor, delivering 10x faster processing performance and nearly twice as fast boot-up times.
• Imaging Refresh Rate: Faster refresh rate for ultrasound imaging, providing immediate response times to practitioner commands.
• Platform Ergonomics: Includes a tiltable screen for optimal viewing, an integrated work surface for equipment, and an ergonomically angled cart platform.
• Operating System: Powered by a new OS with modern drivers for improved stability and future software compatibility.

Treatment & Imaging Specifications

• Real-Time Visualization: Patented DeepSEE™ technology allows for simultaneous visualization and treatment up to 8 mm depth.
• Ultrasound Field: Features a 10-inch ultrasound field, which is 2x larger than the legacy model.
• Treatment Depths: Uses multi-patient-use transducers to target three precise depths:
• 1.5 mm: Superficial dermis.
• 3.0 mm: Deep dermis.
• 4.5 mm: SMAS (Superficial Muscular Aponeurotic System) and platysma.
• Coagulative Temperature: Delivers consistent energy at 60–70°C, the optimal range for initiating collagen denaturation and synthesis.
• Treatment Speed: Offers up to 20% to 30% faster treatment times compared to the original system.

Physical Dimensions (Control Unit (without cart) & Handpiece)

• Height: < 16.69 in (424 mm) at 90° open
• Width: 19.4 in (493.6 mm)
• Depth: 13.1 in (338.5 mm)
• Weight: ≤ 27 lbs (12.2 kg)
• Handpiece Weight: 1.5 lbs (0.7 kg) with transducer
• Cable Length: 75 in (1.9 m)
• Clinical Indications (2026)
• Primary Lifting: FDA-cleared for lifting the brow, skin on the neck, and under the chin.
• Wrinkle Reduction: FDA-cleared for improving lines and wrinkles on the décolleté.
• Body Contouring: Expanded 2025/2026 indications for improving skin laxity on the abdomen, anterior arms, and posterior arms.