What is Dry Needling Acupuncture?
asked 1 year ago by Muga in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Latest answer by Ronald Shelton, MD
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Tags: lips, nasolabial folds, wrinkles, deep, micro-needling
used for deep wrinkles around lips, & nasolabral lines
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Dry needling
Dry needling is a procedure that involves the piercing of skin with hundreds of tiny punctures of a needle that extends about 2mm. deep through the epidermis (around 1/ 12 th of an inch). As the puncture sites heal, the body creates inflammation which then produces new collagen and the aggregate of this new collagen can form a new infrastructure to smoothen the overlying epidermis and potentially raise thinned out areas. The newer nonablational fractional lasers have been doing this for...
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