Ultherapy Versus Microneedling

A quote for skin tightening in White Plains may arrive with a treatment name attached: Ultherapy from one provider, microneedling from another. The name tells you what is being proposed. It does not tell you who should be the one to do it. This page treats the two options as a single decision, then checks the Westchester providers you might ask about them against a public measure you can verify yourself.

Two options, one decision

You are choosing between Ultherapy and microneedling, and you are also choosing a provider. Those are separate questions, and a quote usually answers only the first. The sections below keep them apart so you can cross-check a proposal before you book.

Ultrasound handpiece and microneedling pen side by side on a folded towel

How the providers were ranked

The ranking behind this comparison uses one label: Google rating. Providers are listed from the highest rating down, and each rating and review count is taken from the provider's own Google Business Profile. Dr. Marc L. Epstein MD Aesthetic Medicine & Cosmetic Injections in Harrison sits sixth in the order, with a 5 rating across 9 reviews.

What the table shows

The table covers places one through six of the thirteen providers in the White Plains order. It ranks providers, not treatments. Nothing in it says which provider offers Ultherapy, which offers microneedling, or which treatment suits your face.

Place Provider Google rating and reviews
First Skinsations Aesthetics 5 from 116 reviews
Second Infinite You Wellness Clinic 5 from 98 reviews
Third Zellner Plastic Surgery 5 from 48 reviews
Fourth Advanced Health and Aesthetics 5 from 22 reviews
Fifth Gold'n Aura Aesthetics 5 from 20 reviews
Sixth Dr. Marc L. Epstein MD Aesthetic Medicine & Cosmetic Injections 5 from 9 reviews

Reading each row

All six providers share the same rating, so the order comes down to how many reviews sit behind it.

Skinsations Aesthetics leads with a 5 rating across 116 reviews. More reviews sit behind that rating than behind any other in this table.

Infinite You Wellness Clinic follows with a 5 rating across 98 reviews. It is the only other provider here with close to a hundred reviews.

Zellner Plastic Surgery shows a 5 rating across 48 reviews, roughly half the count of the provider above it.

Advanced Health and Aesthetics has a 5 rating across 22 reviews.

Gold'n Aura Aesthetics sits just below with a 5 rating across 20 reviews, two reviews fewer than the provider above it.

Dr. Marc L. Epstein MD Aesthetic Medicine & Cosmetic Injections closes the table with the same rating on the smallest base, 9 reviews. A perfect score from a handful of reviewers is thinner evidence than the same score from over a hundred.

Background reading before a consultation

If you want published material beside the ratings, the PubMed Central (NIH) article on energy-based devices for facial skin conditions in skin of color and the review of microfocused ultrasound and skin-tightening energy technologies are good places to start. Bring what you read to the consultation and ask the provider to explain where their advice differs.

Two questions to put to any provider

  1. Which of the two treatments are you proposing for me, and what would you propose if I had chosen the other?
  2. What would you need to see at my consultation to change your recommendation?

Which question settles it

If your quote names Ultherapy, ask the first question before you compare prices. If it names microneedling, ask the same thing. A provider who can explain both options and say why one fits you has given you something a rating cannot. Use the table to decide which consultations are worth booking in White Plains, and use the questions to decide which proposal to accept.

The rankings behind this table