Microneedling Treatment in Facial Aging

Document Type : Original Article

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Department of Dermatology, STDs and Andrology, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, Egypt

Abstract

Background: Skin microneedling is minimally invasive treatment modality produced noticeable 
clinical improvement of photoaged skin and atrophic post-acne facial scars. There are some factors 
determine the effect of microneedling treatment methods including; pretreatment preparations and the 
use of multiple sessions and other factors. Objectives: This work aims to evaluate the use and 
effectiveness of different depth of penetrations of dermapen needles in management of facial aging.
Methods: The study was conducted on 14 subjects with skin aging. The age of subjects ranged from 
35 to 52 years. Results: Facial aging subjects showed improvement in all of them, but the difference 
in all grades of improvement between both sides of the face was not statistically significant, with no 
patients achieving very good improvement on both sides of face. Conclusion: Microneedling is 
effective, safe and Low coast modality in treatment of photo-aging. 

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