Time is making its mark on your appearance and, with each passing year, the effects are piling up. From lines that have become etched into your skin to blemishes like acne scars and age spots, your face is slowly moving away from that blank canvas of youth — and looking more like a roadmap of your life.
In 2024, skin care experts like ourselves performed more than 3.7 million minimally invasive skin resurfacing procedures in the United States, including microneedling.
Here at Warrenton Dermatology & Skin Therapy Center, board-certified dermatologist Dr. Juan-Carlos Caballero and our experienced team offer a full scope of proven skin care treatments. Time and again, we find ourselves turning to microneedling, which has become one of our true “workhorse therapies.” Here are three reasons why.
One of the reasons why we (and our clients) love microneedling is that the treatment works with your body to refresh and revitalize aging, blemished, and dull skin.
With our SkinPen® microneedling technology, we make passes over your skin with fine needles to create a matrix of microchannels across the epidermal surface. Our goal is to tap into your body’s powerful healing and regenerative resources to rebuild your skin — from below.
More specifically, when we create these micro-injuries, we’re tricking your skin into thinking it needs to heal and rebuild. The healing cascade we create when we perform microneedling includes four parts:
So, these resources, which include collagen and elastin — the protein building blocks of smooth, youthful skin — flood the treatment area, fill in the channels, and lift and tighten your skin naturally.
While the regenerative cascade we launch in your skin through microneedling is impressive enough on its own, this popular skin care treatment can also clear away surface concerns.
For example, microneedling is one of the most powerful tools for minimizing acne scarring in your skin, and Americans are no strangers to these scars — acne affects about 50 million people in the U.S. each year.
Outside of making quick work of acne scarring, we can also break apart other surface issues with microneedling, such as age spots, facial veins, stretch marks, enlarged pores, and other scars.
As regenerative medicine continues to advance in almost all medical fields, we’re learning how to harness it for skin health. Specifically, we can combine microneedling with platelet-rich plasma (PRP) treatments to amplify the regenerative and healing call.
During your SkinPen microneedling treatment, we harvest a small vial of your blood to create a platelet concentrate. As we perform microneedling, we brush this serum concentrate across the microchannels in your skin, so it can filter down through the skin layers.
This introduction of platelets allows us to increase the growth factors in your skin, which call on resources like collagen, elastin, and new skin cells. Essentially, adding PRP makes a great skin treatment even better.
As you can see, there’s a lot to love about microneedling, which is why it continues to be one of our most popular treatments. To obtain the amazing benefits of microneedling for yourself, we invite you to contact Warrenton Dermatology & Skin Therapy Center in Warrenton, Virginia: Call 540-341-1900 today, or request an appointment online at your convenience.
