Do you have skin damage on your face or elsewhere on your body? Find out how microneedling treatments can help reverse the damage and repair your skin.

One of the leading concerns among many of the clients that we work with revolves around skin damage. Skin damage can occur for a multitude of reasons, and it is something that can have a severe impact on a person’s self-confidence and overall appearance. However, through the use of microneedling, you can begin to repair skin damage.

1. What is Skin Damage?

Yes, aging does create 'damage' to our skin over time. Wrinkles from repetitive facial movements, age spots from slowed melanin production, reduced cell renewal rates, and oil production, and declining levels of collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid are all-natural consequences of aging, contributing to creasing, laxity, and texture changes.

While we can do many things cosmetically to address this inevitable decline in skin texture and appearance, other lifestyle habits frequently accelerate the aging process. Others can cause severe, even dangerous, damage to our skin and overall health.

Outside of expected aging and scars from accidents or surgery, skin damage can appear in the form of acne scars, hyperpigmentation, uneven and rough skin, blotchiness and redness, broken capillaries, and premature wrinkling and sagging caused by photoaging. In the extreme, skin damage can manifest as serious diseases such as actinic keratoses, skin and other cancers, and potentially life-threatening melanomas.

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2. What Causes Skin Damage?

Beyond natural wear and tear, skin damage occurs chiefly through lifestyle choices, including:

• Unhealthy lifestyle choices: Consuming healthy foods full of vitamins, especially vitamin C and minerals, such as those found in vegetables and fruit, is essential to protect your skin from the inside. A lack of antioxidants and nutrients will leave your skin vulnerable while staying healthy can help your skin repair itself. Stay hydrated - drink water throughout the day. Moist cells tend to function and heal more efficiently, helping your skin look plump and dewy. Dry, tight, dehydrated skin is more likely to wrinkle and looks less youthful. Regular sweating during exercise can help skin stay toned, and the increased blood circulation keeps skin well-oxygenated and nourished.
• Sun damage: While some natural sunlight is essential to stimulate vitamin D production and lift mood, too much exposure is a significant contributor to skin damage. Without protection, your skin is vulnerable to ultraviolet rays that damage elastin and collagen, leading to early age spots, wrinkling, and skin thickening. Excessive sun exposure is also the predominant cause of skin cancers and melanomas.
• Use of stimulants: Smoking and drinking alcohol are the next most harmful lifestyle choice for your skin. Cigarettes constrict your blood flow, restricting the amount of oxygen and nutrients getting to your cells, leading to sagging and creasing. At the same time, the repetitive act of drawing smoke from the cigarette eventually causes deep lines around the mouth. A known carcinogen, excessive alcohol consumption dehydrates the body and the skin, leaving your skin vulnerable to premature aging.

Fortunately, for most wrinkles, folds and sagging, uneven skin tone, and surface damage, help is available. Non-invasive cosmetic treatments such as microneedling can help repair and rejuvenate your skin.

3. What is Microneedling?

Microneedling uses tiny, very fine needles all over your face or elsewhere on your body to create minuscule 'wounds'. These micro-punctures help your skin absorb topically applied skincare formulations while stimulating your body's natural repair processes and collagen and elastin production. As the micro-punctures heal, the epidermis tightens, and the skin is replenished to reveal a smoother, more toned, and overall refreshed appearance.

Microneedling is FDA approved and used for decades as a safe, highly effective, almost painless skin rejuvenation treatment.

Here are six proven reasons why microneedling is ideal for repairing skin damage:

• Reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles: Microneedling promotes increased collagen and elastin production, helping to tone your skin and minimize the appearance of wrinkles on the skin's surface.
• Improves skin tone: Collagen production helps tighten and tone the skin to address sagging and laxity associated with natural and photoaging.
• Treats sun damage: Damage such as hyperpigmentation and blotchiness can be reduced or reversed by increased collagen production.
• Minimizes open pores: As we age, our pores tend to open, impacting our skin's appearance. Although microneedling creates tiny holes in our skin, the resultant increase in collagen helps the skin around our pores plump up and 'close' again.
• Enhances the absorption of skincare treatment products: The tiny pinprick 'wounds' created by microneedling help our skin to absorb topical treatments, further enhancing the repair and rejuvenation of your skin. In addition, treatment plans often use soothing and healing products in conjunction with microneedling for a synergistic effect.
• Helps minimize the appearance of scarring: The treatment effectively reduces visible scars, including stretch marks, without the side effects and downtime of other scar treatment options.

When you're ready to treat, minimize or reverse the appearance of skin damage, why not try our microneedling services? We offer two FDA approved options to optimize outcomes:

Our Rejuvapen® microneedling treatment provides all six benefits, safely and with minimal side effects and no downtime. Your treatment schedule will leave your skin looking tighter, smoother, and more toned.

For enhanced results, our VIVACE®RF microneedling treatment offers all the benefits of microneedling combined with radiofrequency to maximize effectiveness. Radiofrequency safely heats the skin's deeper layers, further stimulating collagen production for improved skin tone and texture. The radiofrequency extends to the tip of the needles, where it acts on the dermis.

Don't let skin damage hurt your self-esteem; contact us today to learn more about how microneedling can help.

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