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Microneddling is an excellent treatment for scars and hyperpigmentaton. Its important to pretreat you skin with a good bleaching cream for at least on week.Acne scars need more aggressive and deep microneedling than pigmentation. Scars need at least 1.5 mm and pigment does well with .5 mm.Good luck!
Find yourself a goodboard-certified dermatologist or plastic surgeon in your region to learn allabout microneedling. This is a good therapy for those with scars and withpigmentation concerns, as the needles and the procedure bypass what is calledthe dermal-epidermal junction without damaging it, which is one reason we seepost-inflammatory hyperpigmentation, or PIH, after many facial cosmeticprocedures. One of the newer needling devices on the market uses radiofrequency(RF) energy to go deep into the skin to improve the scars and treat the pigment– we use the EndyMed Intensif here – and this is something you might want toconsider.
Wonderful question. Microneedling can stimulate collagen regeneration and when combined with PRP it can improve scars in a variety of skin types. This includes acne scars, chickenpox scars and surgical scars. The dermapen is a commonly used microneedling device...
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