Written by Vera Coetsee, Health and Nutrition Coach
25 May 2023
Microneedling is gaining more popularity, and for a good reason. This minimally invasive aesthetic treatment can be used all over the body, to help improve the appearance of scars, boost collagen, and encourage hair growth. It is also used to help improve fine lines and wrinkles, sun damage, and stretch marks.
What is microneedling?
Microneedling is a procedure designed specifically to invoke the healing response in your skin. The concept is based on the skin’s ability to repair itself whenever it encounters physical damage. Immediately after an injury occurs our skin destroys old damaged tissue and starts the process of healing and replacing it with healthy tissue which contains new collagen.
A handheld device is being used that contains very fine needles that inflict micro-punctures to the skin to stimulate the process of healing. Although this treatment can sound painful, anesthesia cream is used to create a numbing effect so the pain experienced is minimal.
What are the benefits of microneedling?
Microneedling treatment aims to treat various skin conditions and improve the overall quality of the skin. The device will stimulate the production of collagen, which is a protein that improves and strengthens your hair, skin, teeth and nails. Read more about the benefits of collagen in our previous blog post “The Benefits of Collagen”.
The benefits of microneedling includes:
- reduces the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines which provides you with anti-ageing effects
- decreases the size of enlarged pores by giving structure to your skin
- increases hair growth by encouraging natural regrowth and hair follicle activation
- reverse some of the damage caused by harmful sun exposure such as wrinkles and premature ageing
- improves skin texture by removing scars, bumps, flakiness, inflammation and redness
- diminish scars and acne marks by increasing collagen and elastin production which helps the skin to heal from scars
About Scarlet RF Microneedling
Scarlet RF is a short-pulse radiofrequency (RF) with microneedling skin treatment that increases the density of your skin to improve firmness, and decrease sagging and the appearance of ageing. This device delivers RF energy beneath the superficial layer of skin through specialised microneedles.
At Restore Integrative Medical Clinic, we now offer Scarlet microneedling sessions performed by our facial therapist, which can benefit anyone who is looking to improve their skin health.
About Restore Signature Hair Rejuvenation Program
We use the microneedling to inject the product made from biotin and important amino acids and vitamins for hair growth directly into the hair follicles for hair rejuvenation. The 6 week program consists of weekly microneedling injection sessions and also comes with an oral hair supplement and specially formulated hair formula to prevent hair loss and improve hair circulation.
If you are interested to learn more about Scarlet microneedling or our hair rejuvenation program, make an appointment at our clinic here.
Sources:
Juhasz MLW, Cohen JL. Microneedling for the Treatment of Scars: An Update for Clinicians. Clin Cosmet Investig Dermatol. 2020;13:997-1003 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33376377/
Dana Alessa, Jason D. Bloom. Microneedling Options for Skin Rejuvenation, Including Non–temperature-controlled Fractional Microneedle Radiofrequency Treatments. Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America. 2020; 12;1-7 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31779933/