Most patients report feeling just the slight vibration of the microneedle during the procedure. It feels like if someone put an electronic toothbrush against your skin. You feel vibration, but it doesn’t hurt.

Like all cosmetic procedures microneedling isn’t without risk. The most common are minor skin irritation immediately following the treatment. Some peoples skin may feel tender or tight and some redness maybe result for a few days following.

Typically a series of 3-6 microneedling treatments is recommended, depending upon your area of correction or concern. Your skincare professional will ultimately determine a treatment schedule based on your individual goals and desires. Treatments are usually spaced in 4 week intervals. Patients with deep wrinkles, advanced sun damage, stretch marks, or any type of scars, usually require 6 or more treatments to achieve the desired results.

A sterile disposable needle cartridge, holding either 12 or 36 micro-needles is glided across the skin with the Collagen P.I.N. microneedling device that mechanically induces a micro injury to the desired depth chosen for your skin by your medical provider.

Microneedling produces results through the stimulation of growth factors and collagen, thereby promoting new skin cells to surface. As our skin ages, our collagen production naturally slows down.

Your overall result will last longer when using an at home skin care regimen that includes a daily Retinoid product. Your medical provider is best suited to make this recommendation.

New collagen and elastin formation in the skin are documented as visually and measurably improved as much as one year after just one treatment. However, a series of treatments is typically recommended for best results.

Microneedling is considered a no downtime treatment. Immediately after your treatment your skin will look slightly pink to moderately red. Your medical provider will recommend skin care products for your post care based on your individual skin, which will greatly minimize these symptoms and enhance your overall results.

Directly after your treatment we recommend using only mineral based foundation, as it cannot build bacteria. You may go back to your regular foundation 4 days post treatment.

This safe treatment brings many benefits including:

• Deeper absorption of the active ingredients in creams and topical serums
• Improves blood supply and circulation
• Increases the production of collagen through stimulation of Fiberblasts
• Safe for all types of skin
• Non-allergenic since nothing is injected and medical grade titanium needles are used
• Less expensive than other resurfacing treatments
• Safe for use on the scalp and body and also the fragile skin around the eyes, neck and mouth
• Less painful with better results then traditional lasers: CO2 Fraxel, Photofcial & lasers

You will see an immediate glow to your skin. Visible changes to your skin develop over the next few weeks. Your skin’s reaction to the micro injury is to activate more collagen and elastin production, which happens over time.

Virtually anyone in good health can safely undergo microneedling therapy with minimal risk of adverse effects. Typical factors found with some cosmetic procedures such as age and skin colour aren’t a factor with microneedling. If you struggle with acne scars, large pore size, wrinkles, fine lines, hyperpigmentation, age spots, rosacea or premature aging; there is no skin type that doesn’t benefit from microneedling.

• Have used Accutane (Isotretinoin) within the last six months
• Have open skin cuts, abrasions or wounds
• Have undergone radiation treatment to the skin within the last year
• Have any kind of active skin infection in the treatment area
• Are pregnant or breastfeeding
• Have a history of poor wound healing, Keloid or Hypertrophic scars
• Have Rosacea, Active acne, Eczema and Psoriasis
• Are under the age of 18

Aesthetic medicine today has built the premise ‘hurting’ the skin actually makes it look better. The more invasive the treatment the more dramatic the results will be.

Microneedling stimulates the body to heal itself, activating the dormant fibroblast cells in your skins dermis layer that are responsible for the collagen and elastin production.

The effects of Medical Micro-Needling on the skin are significant:

• Improve skin texture and wrinkle appearance
• Regeneration of tissue
• Improve scars, particularly acne scars (as the depressed areas are elevated with new tissue layers)
• Enhance periphery skin
• Shrink pore size
• Improve stretch marks