The hottest thing in anti-aging, wrinkle-reversal, and overall health right now is COLLAGEN. Everyone is talking about it, taking it, and looking for more of it, especially in their skin. Collagen is essentially the thing that gives young people their glowy, bouncy, resilient skin. Experts say that in our mid-to-late 20s, we start losing collagen. By our 30s, we are losing collagen by a rate of around 1% a year, which may not be noticeable until you’ve lost enough to start seeing some fine lines, wrinkles, and sagging. Environmental and lifestyle factors can influence this collagen loss. Alcohol and sugar consumption, poor sleep, excessive sun exposure, and stress, will all contribute to a faster rate of collagen breakdown in the skin, leading to a more rapid appearance in the rate of aging.
If you’re finding this out “too late”, it’s not actually too late. Science has helped us to turn back the clock and turn up the collagen. Your skin can be influenced into making NEW collagen and elastin, leading to a decrease in the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, a tightening and brightening of the skin, and even the resolution of acne and surgical scars.
At Chicago Smile Design, we are pro-collagen, and have brought the latest technologies to the office that can help you build more collagen and fall in love with your skin (and smile) again. Microneedling with PRF, Biofiller, Exosomes, Red Light Therapy, and Daxxify are the newest products and services we are offering to our patients. Today we’ll be touching on microneedling with PRF to let you know what it is, and how it can benefit you!
Microneedling is a painless service that creates tiny microchannels in the skin, microchannels that stimulate the body to heal them, creating more collagen and elastin in the area. By adding PRF (growth products we get from drawing and spinning down your own blood) to the skin while microneedling, we are adding an extra boost of collagen and elastin. Your body will want to heal the microchannels, and with the help of PRF, it will have all of the building blocks necessary to do so, naturally, right from your own body!
We also offer exosomes as an add-on to microneedling with PRF. Exosomes are crucial for cell-signaling. By placing exosomes on the skin, they will help the cells communicate, giving you a superboost of collagen and elastin production. How much of a boost? Well if you add exosomes to the service, you will increase collagen and elastin production by 300x more than if you did the microneedling with PRF alone.
Lastly, we offer an exosome balm, that you can use pre- and/or post-procedure. It will place more exosomes directly onto the skin while the microchannels are still open, increase healing, and again, boost…you guessed it!
Microneedling is fantastic for fine lines, wrinkles, tightening of the skin, hyperpigmentation and sun damage, acne (even active acne), acne scars, or any scars on the body.
Downtime is minimal (stay out of direct sunlight for two weeks), redness is negligible, and our patients have been so happy with the results and lack of irritation afterwards.. We also offer red light therapy after the microneedling procedure to help with healing and to minimize post-op redness. If you have any questions or would like to book a consultation for microneedling with PRF and exosomes, please reach out to our office or contact Dr. Laura Ruof directly (DrLauraRuof@gmail.com).
