Microneedling

Microneedling, also known as collagen induction therapy, involves pricking the skin with tiny sterilized needles. These controlled injuries cause your body to go into repair mode, causing your body to make more collagen and elastin within the skin over time. This treatment improves fine lines, wrinkles, acne scars, hyperpigmentation, large pores, tightens skin and helps to improve the appearance of stretch marks.

Face $200, Face/Neck $250, Face/Neck/Chest $350, Focal area $150

Add on treatments include:

  • Stemfacial MD Matrix Solution $50

This mixture of cytokines, growth factors, peptides, inflammatories and vitamins is microneedled into your skin, accelerating the natural healing response and providing more stimulation with the growth factors.

  • Platelet Rich Fibrin (PRF) $150

PRF is microneedled into the skin for the ultimate skin rejuvenation. PRF uses your own growth factors and stem cells to stimulate your skin. This treatment requires a small blood draw. The blood is then centrifuged to separate the cells and is microneedled into the skin. PRF can also be injected into scarring and fine lines. Scar subcision is included in this add on, if needed.

Although there are some basic similarities between Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) and Platelet Rich Fibrin (PRF) treatments, there are some crucial differences that make PRF superior. Both procedures involve a blood draw that is spun in a centrifuge to separate the various cells that are used in skin rejuvenation. PRP requires a higher speed centrifuge and uses anticoagulants to prevent blood clotting. PRF uses a slower centrifuge speed and does not require anticoagulants. Research is showing that Platelet Rich Fibrin (PRF) has a higher concentration of platelets, white blood cells and stem cells that create a fibrin scaffold, where growth factors can be slowly released into the skin over weeks, instead of days with PRP. Several weeks of continued release of growth factors and stem cells into the skin creates superior skin rejuvenation.

WHAT TO EXPECT

  • Your skin will be cleansed, prepped and a topical lidocaine/tetracaine ointment will be applied. Numbing will stay on the skin for 20 minutes. 

    Numbing will be removed, areas treated will be cleaned with hibiclens to kill any bacteria on the skin. 

  • Microneedling will begin using either hyaluronic acid,or one of the add on treatments, growth factor serum or PRF. These will be applied to the skin and microneedled into the skin. The level of the needles into the skin will be adjusted throughout your treatment due to differing thicknesses of skin throughout your face. Some areas like around the eyes, the skin is quite thin, while the cheek skin is much thicker. 

  • After the treatment is over a rich ceramide cream will be applied.

    Expect to be extremely red on the day of treatment with the potential of mild bruising in areas where skin is very thin. Skin can also be pinkish or have a slight mottled appearance for a day or two after. 

  • Results take time to appear. Microneedling creates the environment for your skin to be stimulated and begin to create more collagen, and elastin fibers. Best results are seen after a series of 3, and then maintenance treatments to continually stimulate the skin. Our skin is continuing to age, continued periodic treatments help to fight the natural thinning of the skin and aging process. 

    CARING FOR SKIN POST TREATMENT

  • Avoid any “active” skincare products until you are completely healed and your skin has returned to normal. This might be a couple of days to a week depending on how skin heals. These products include retinol, Retin A, salicyclic acid, glycolic acid, and benzoyl peroxide. The best thing you can use on your skin is SkinMedica TNS Ceramide Treatment Cream or any cream high in ceramides without any irritants.

  • Avoid the sun until healed. Do not apply sunscreen on treatment day. Sunscreens are very irritating to freshly microneedled skin. Sunscreen can be used once your skin has healed, 24-48 hours. 

  • Avoid sweating. The salt in your sweat will cause the skin to burn and become very irritated.