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Microneedling is a minimally invasive treatment designed to improve skin texture, reduce wrinkles, and enhance collagen production. At Uptown Medical Aesthetics, we offer this innovative therapy to help patients achieve youthful, glowing skin. By creating tiny, controlled injuries in the skin, microneedling stimulates the body’s natural healing response, promoting collagen and elastin production.
This versatile treatment addresses fine lines, acne scars, enlarged pores, and uneven tone. Whether looking for preventative care or corrective results, microneedling provides a reliable solution with minimal downtime. We also offer Virtue RF Microneedling, an advanced version of the traditional procedure incorporating radiofrequency (RF) energy to enhance skin tightening and rejuvenation.
Microneedling
Microneedling is a time-tested procedure that harnesses the body’s natural healing abilities to improve skin quality and appearance. Tiny needlesTiny needles create micro-channels in the skin, triggering collagen and elastin production.
Benefits:
Reduces Fine Lines and Wrinkles
Improves Skin Texture and Tone
Minimizes the Appearance of Scars
Decreases Pore Size
Quick Recovery
Virtue RF Microneedling
At Uptown Medical Aesthetics, we offer Virtue RF Microneedling, an enhanced version of microneedling that incorporates radiofrequency energy to deliver deeper, more effective results. This advanced system uses ultra-fine needles to penetrate the skin while applying heat energy through RF technology. The combination amplifies collagen production and enhances tissue tightening, providing superior rejuvenation outcomes.
Benefits:
Tightens and Lifts the Skin
Reduces Stretch Marks and Deep Scars
Minimizes Redness and Skin Irritation
Safe for All Skin Types and Tones
Minimal Downtime
faq's
By creating miniscule injuries in the skin, microneedling promotes collagen and elastin production. This enhances skin texture, reduces wrinkles, and minimizes scarring.
Virtue RF incorporates radiofrequency energy, penetrating deeper into the skin, stimulating more collagen, and improving skin tightening. It delivers better results for issues like stretch marks and deep scars compared to traditional microneedling.
The ideal number of sessions across three to four weeks is recommended for both microneedling and Virtue RF. Maintenance treatments every six months can help preserve the benefits.
Both treatments involve minimal downtime. After microneedling, you may experience mild redness for a few hours. With Virtue RF, redness can last slightly longer but resolves within a day.
Yes, both treatments are safe for all skin types and tones, making them versatile solutions for a wide range of patients.
You may notice improvements within a few days, but full results typically develop over the course of four to six weeks as collagen production increases.
Enhancements
faq's
Microneedling works through a process that allows the skin’s natural self-repair process to create new collagen and elastin through microchannels in the skin. This type of collagen induction therapy will help heal your skin and bring life back into it. During the short period of downtime, you’ll quickly see improvements in your skin’s tone, texture, and overall appearance.
Microneedling treatments improve your skin’s tone, texture, and appearance. With microneedling, you can reduce the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles, large pores, stretch marks, as well as acne and surgical scars. Added collagen and elastin will rejuvenate and correct tired skin. Whether you have particular skin goals in mind or want an overall refreshed appearance, our microneedling services can address all your concerns.
Anyone who wants to rejuvenate their skin or looking to improve the appearance of a scar, stretch mark, or large pores and wrinkles is a great candidate for microneedling. This procedure can be performed on all types of skin, and microneedling for acne scars is becoming common practice.
Anyone who has a history of keloid scarring, scleroderma, collagen vascular diseases, cardiac abnormalities, hemorrhagic disorder or dysfunction, or has an active bacterial or fungal infection can’t receive microneedling treatments by Uptown Medical Aesthetics. Additionally, anyone who is being seen by a physician for any type of autoimmune disorder whose treatment is daily anti-inflammatory medications may not get the desired results. An inflammatory response is necessary for the body to produce collagen.
Microneedling is extremely customizable and can be performed on your face, neck, décolleté, arms, hands, legs, abdomen, and back. Any scars must be at least one year old before undergoing microneedling on that area.
The procedure will take about one hour of your time. For the first 30 minutes, we will numb the area prior to treatment, and an additional 30 minutes to treat the area thoroughly. Please plan on arriving at least 15 minutes prior to your scheduled appointment to prep.
The unique design of the SkinPen® allows for personalized settings, which makes microneedling very comfortable for most of our patients. Topical numbing cream can be applied for deeper treatments if you’re worried about discomfort.
You’ll typically notice results immediately following your microneedling procedure. Your skin will look and feel healthier, and as the natural repair process continues to progress over the next several weeks, you’ll see even more dramatic results. Keep in mind any collagen remodeling process takes time, and damage that has occurred over an extensive period won’t disappear immediately. You may not see the final result for up to three to six months following your final session. Individual results for microneedling treatments will vary.
The number of microneedling procedures you receive will be determined by the health of your skin, as well as your individual skin goals. Most patients looking to refresh and rejuvenate their skin should receive a series of three treatments spaced about four weeks apart. Patients who are looking for a more aggressive correction of scars, large pores, and deeper wrinkles should plan on a series of six total treatments spaced every four weeks. Your provider will develop a maintenance plan tailored to your specific needs and desires.
We typically recommend patients resume their normal skincare and makeup regimen three to four days following their microneedling procedure, depending on the area treated and the type of treatment performed.
For the first few days, most of our patients will experience some mild side effects from their microneedling procedure. For the first two to four days, redness/pinkness is common. You might feel sunburnt for the first 12-24 hours, and slight swelling is possible. The area that was treated will feel tight and dry in the first 48 hours, and post-care instructions for proper product application will be provided. Some patients may experience light to moderate flaking on days three to five.
At Uptown Medical Aesthetics, we uphold the highest standards of patient and quality care through our aesthetic treatments. Our professional team has provided superior medical spa aesthetic services to residents in Northglenn, CO, and the Denver metro area for nearly two decades. Each aesthetician on our team is certified, with more than 50 years of combined experience in the industry. Contact us today to schedule an appointment or learn more about the services we provide!
