At Revive MD Center in Glen Allen, VA, we offer a unique treatment called PRP microneedling that uses growth factors from your body along with advanced needling techniques to force your body to grow new collagen and elastin to naturally smooth lines and wrinkles and improve different complexion imperfections. This treatment delivers natural, noticeable, and long-lasting results.
How Long Does PRP Microneedling Last?
Once you undergo the PRP microneedling treatment process and achieve results, you can expect them to last for a year or longer. The benefit of this unique treatment process is that we will recommend that you schedule a certain number of treatments to achieve your cosmetic goals.
Still, at the same time, you can schedule maintenance treatments after you complete your treatment plan to promote collagen synthesis and maintain a healthy and youthful-looking complexion long-term. The benefit of our microneedling sessions is that it adds PRP to an already extremely effective skin care treatment to enhance the results and take them to the next level.
Ways To Enhance Your Treatment Results
Your results can last a year or longer, but there are ways to take advantage of this treatment process and enhance your results. Microneedling opens up the skin and temporally improves its absorption rate. You can take advantage of this benefit by considering your product regimen post-treatment and using high-quality professional-grade skin care products so your skin can absorb those nutrient-rich ingredients and promote the healthiest skin possible.
Another way to enhance your results is to avoid excess sun exposure. The sun damages the skin, and one of the easiest ways to prevent premature aging is by wearing quality sunscreen and avoiding direct contact with the sun as much as possible. Taking extra preventative measures, like wearing a sun visor or hat when exposed to the sun, can make a significant difference in the health and appearance of your skin and slow the aging process.
The Importance of a Healthy Diet and Adequate Hydration
Skin health is affected by what you eat and drink. A diet high in processed foods and excess sugars and sodium will take a toll on the skin and can contribute to poor skin health. Conversely, a nutrient-dense diet with healthy fats and plenty of leafy, green vegetables can help enhance your treatment results.
Maintaining adequate skin hydration by drinking plenty of water, limiting alcohol consumption, and avoiding significant caffeine intake will also promote skin health post-treatment and help enhance your microneedling with PRP results.
Follow-Up Treatments
This treatment will improve your skin and force the body to grow new collagen and elastin, but eventually, you will see the signs of aging slowly reappear. It’s not that your results will wear off, just that your body will continue to age, and this will be evident on your skin. One of the easiest ways to extend your treatment result is to schedule regular maintenance treatments every few months.
What Is PRP Microneedling?
PRP microneedling is a treatment that uses an advanced professional needling device to perform a treatment process, also known as collagen induction therapy. During the treatment process, tiny sterile needles in the device will robotically stamp the skin to create with the body perceives as micro-injuries on the skin’s surface.
These tiny injuries are also known as microchannels. They open up the skin to the deeper layers and increase its absorption rate. When we add PRP to the treatment, the growth factors in this natural serum will extend beyond the skin’s surface into the deeper layers to rejuvenate the complexion and promote ultimate skin health.
How Does It Work?
This treatment process begins with a standard blood draw. Once we get a blood sample, we will prepare the PRP serum used during the treatment by placing it in a centrifuge. This device uses gravitational forces to spin the blood at a rapid rate to separate the platelet-rich plasma from the rest of the blood cells.
This process only takes a few minutes, and then we will prepare these isolated growth factors into an anti-aging serum that we will use during the microneedling process. The PRP’s growth factors and healing properties will be applied to your skin during the microneedling treatment to enhance the treatment results.
The Treatment Process
After we prepare the PRP, we will prepare your skin for the treatment by applying a topical numbing solution to the treatment area so that you do not feel the needles as they stamp your skin. Once your skin is numb, we will begin the needling process and apply the PRP to target your areas of concern, promote overall skin health, and improve any skin imperfections you want to treat.
The Benefits of Adding PRP to a Microneedling Treatment
PRP is a powerful anti-aging solution that you can’t buy from a medical-grade skincare company. It has to come from your blood, and we prepare accordingly so that your body can benefit from all the growth factors and healing properties that have been isolated during preparation. PRP will enhance microneedling treatments by promoting and extending treatment results and delivering anti-aging ingredients deep into the layers of the skin to promote skin health and cellular regeneration.
What Can It Treat?
Microneedling is a versatile treatment that can improve the skin in different ways. It’s an effective solution for those who have begun to notice how the signs of aging have affected their appearance negatively. These treatments provide an effective way to smooth lines and wrinkles by promoting increased collagen and elastin production and will help the body grow new collagen to fill hollow areas of the face, like the under-eye area and the cheeks.
We can also use it to reduce the appearance of acne scars, treat hyperpigmentation, promote cellular turnover, and help patients achieve a healthier and more even skin tone.
How Many Treatments Will I Need?
Patients typically need a treatment plan that includes at least three sessions with one month between each for the best results. This treatment schedule allows your body to heal and regenerate the skin just in time to perform another treatment to continue to promote increased collagen and elastin production.
We evaluate patients on a case-by-case basis to create unique treatment plans and address each of their skin concerns. Depending on your goals, you may benefit from more than three treatments to effectively target more advanced skin concerns.
When Can I Expect Results?
Some patients notice initial improvements in their skin thanks to the contraction of the existing collagen in the deeper layers stimulated during the treatment. However, collagen production can take up to three months, so you may not see the most noticeable results until a few weeks after your initial treatment. Even though the results take time, they will appear, and you will notice a dramatic improvement in the appearance and health of your complexion.
Who Is It Right For?
Microneedling treatments can help patients with all skin tones achieve a clear, healthy, younger-looking complexion. It also is an effective option for patients with thin or sensitive skin. The benefit of adding PRP to the treatment is that it not only enhances the results but is safe for all patients since the PRP used during treatment comes from your blood.
Determining Treatment Eligibility
Patients who aren’t ready to resort to invasive cosmetic treatments or injectables to target aging and other concerns make good candidates for this natural and effective treatment. Patients who use other skin care treatments to perfect their skin and have undergone treatment with dermal fillers or Botox to promote anti-aging results can also schedule this treatment to address other skin concerns naturally.
It’s important that patients are not currently pregnant or nursing at the time of treatment and don’t have any active acne or infections in the planned treatment area. We will evaluate your skin during an initial consultation to confirm your treatment eligibility and then design a treatment plan that uses microneedling with PRP treatments to effectively address your areas of concern.
Perfect Your Skin With a PRP Microneedling Treatment Plan
If you’re interested in this natural anti-aging, skin-perfecting treatment, we can design a unique treatment plan with microneedling with PRP treatments that can increase your confidence in the appearance of your skin. Contact us today at Revive MD Center in Glen Allen, VA, to learn more about this treatment, how it can address your skin concerns, and schedule your initial consultation.
