The aim of micro needling is to improve the appearance of scars, pigmentation and wrinkles. Blood vessels and blushing have been noted to improve at the same time. The outer layers of the skin (horny epithelium) are known to provide 80% of the resistance to penetration of creams. Micro needles penetrate this layer and create tiny channels through which creams may penetrate. These channels will close within 90 minutes restoring the body’s natural defenses. Meanwhile the active ingredients from the creams will be acting in and under the skin.

Home rollers with needles of 0.5 mm are able to penetrate this layer without going deep enough to cause bleeding or irritate nerve endings. This is why home rollers can be used without anesthetics.

Medical rollers have needles 1.0 mm or longer. This allows them to penetrate down to the papillary dermis where they can touch the end of blood vessels and nerves. Anesthesia is needed and little bleeding points can be seen. This is associated with electrical activity at a cellular level similar to that seen with acupuncture.

Downtime
Home rollers have very little downtime when used vigorously and none in normal use. The main aim of home rollers is to open up the skin and greatly enhance the penetration of any active ingredient applied to the skin.

Medical rollers are associated with a few minor petechae (pin prick spots of bruising). The skin has a mild Erythema (sun burnt look) which may be covered with a mineral foundation and resolves in 1-2 days.

Surgical rollers cause some pin point bleeding and petechae. The Erythema is more pronounced and can last 3-4 days.

How many treatments?
It is recommended that you have treatments from once a week to once a month for a series of six treatments. Deeper problems (acne scars, melasma, etc) need deeper treatments which take longer to heal and need more time between. If you cannot take time off have a more superficial treatment. Improvement still occurs albeit more gradually.
Where can it be used?
Micro needling can be used on any area of the body for most skin conditions and on any colour of skin.

What creams should I use?
With treating scars:  Micro needling alone will work (dry needling) but improvement is greatly accelerated by using vitamin A in the lead up to, during and after treatment such as RegimA Scar Repair. Vitamin C is an essential co-factor to be used in addition to vitamin A. Vitamin C itself also stimulates the production of collagen through activity on the DNA. In this way Vit C has a double action to directly stimulate collagen production and to indirectly stimulate collagen via VitA.

With Anti – Aging and Collagen Production: Micro needling alone will work (dry needling) but improvement is greatly accelerated by using !QMS MEDI COSMETICS.