New Year, new you? Nah. We prefer: New Year, new options—to level up your look, if you so choose. In the coming months, you can expect to see the greenlighting of some long-awaited breakthroughs—from novel skin-boosting injectables to cutting-edge tools unlike any others we’ve seen before. Here, discerning dermatologists and plastic surgeons share the most celebrated arrivals of 2022.<\/p>
One of the most hotly anticipated launches of the new year, Ellacor<\/a> was recently cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat moderate to severe wrinkles in the mid to lower face on Fitzpatrick<\/a> skin types I through IV. (Data on dark complexions is said to be forthcoming.) Conceived, researched, and developed at Massachusetts General Hospital, the first-of-its-kind gadget uses hollow needles and a sewing-machine-like action to drill out and suction up thousands of tiny cores of skin, extracting up to 8% of skin in the treatment area in under an hour. Both the precise depth of treatment and the number of microcores removed can be customized to suit each patient, says Dr. Michael Abrouk<\/a>, a cosmetic dermatology fellow at Harvard University who was involved with the Ellacor clinical trials<\/a> and now performs the procedure in practice. The tech is heat-free and creates zero scarring, even at a cellular level. <\/p>