hi this is dr renata vicks harris and i'm a cosmetic physician with reflection center here
in martinsville new jersey and today i'm going to talk about rf microneedling with acne scars
this patient is a young woman in her 20s and has had issues with acne for a long time
her scarring is a combination of rolling and boxcar scars typically with this type of
scarring i recommend a series of rf microneedling treatments which we can augment with prp to ensure
both faster recovery and more improvement in the scars with each session with acne scarring
it's important to recognize that you're never going to be able to take the skin back to before
you started having acne but you can make it look much better much smoother and softer
we usually start by applying some numbing to the skin and we take some
blood that we then spin in the centrifuge to concentrate the platelets once of the
blood has been concentrated we removed the platelets and put them in syringes
to use at the time of our microneedling in her case i also decided to do supposition
at the same time since she has some tethered down scars and that will enhance her results
here you can see how i use a cannula to go under the skin and loosen up the scars from below i also
put in some numbing at the same time and that will make the actual procedure more comfortable
but it's required to do so for the subcision after the substitution we use the rf micro needling
machine that has these tiny little needles that go into the skin and while they're
in the skin they will heat up that area with rf which stands for radio frequency
and that enhances the result and what it does is these tiny micro injuries will stimulate the body
to repair itself and at the same time it will repair some of the scarring that's in the area
after each we do a total of three passes and after each pass we apply some prp
to absorb into the skin but we also inject a prp afterwards
people will usually be swollen and a little red for about one to two days sometimes you can have
a little bit of bruising from the prp injections most people require somewhere between three to six
treatments to see good improvement of their scars i would say you can expect about 50 improvement
of the scars it kind of depends how severe and significant they are and everybody is a little
bit different she had really good results and i was very happy with it and so was the patient
she had a total of four treatments and she may come back in the future and decide to
do one or two more to see if she can get even more improvement but she was happy after four
treatments we have a wide variety of acne scar treatments available in our office and since each
patient is different it's important to be assessed and discuss what treatment would work best for you
a free consultation with myself or any other of the cosmetic doctors in our practice is a great
place to start as we help you understand which treatment will and will not work for
you and then help you narrow down the ones that will best fit your budget and lifestyle