I am wanting to buy a Dermaroller, but I don't know how safe it is to buy one off the internet. Any suggestions?

The best way to treat track marks is to avoid them in the first place. There are reports in the medical literature about track marks appearing after treatment of "bony" areas on the face such as the forehead using longer 2.0 mm needles. However, aggressive home treatments using 1.5 mm needles...

Medical micro-needling has been proven to be an excellent treatment for acne scarring and can be especially effective if they are fresh. There are scientific studies showing micro-needling can give as good or better results than fractionated laser treatments and at a fraction of the cost!...

This is a great question but a fairly complex one too. No, the dermatoller does not give false positive diagnosis, but it is still possible you have a false positive diagnosis. AGA gives inflammation and scarring (loose concentric fibrosis). Unless an expert dermatopathologist is reading your...

Microneedling is an exciting new way to treat acne scars, old scars, and stretch marks.  By going deeper than we can with a laser (up to 2.5 mm) with the microneedling pen, we are promoting an inflammatory / healing response which gives us collagen production.  I use the CosmoPen which...

Scarabrasion is a technique for improving or minimizing all kinds of scars, including traumatic scars. In its traditional form, developed back in the late 1980s, manual dermasanding was performed on traumatic (and other kinds of scars) between eight to twelve weeks--which is the case...

Retin-A can safely be used at the same time as micro-needling as they affect different levels of the skin. Regarding the negative posts by some physicians about micro-needling, there are many good scientific studies showing that medical micro-needling really works. However, I am not a fan of...