Main description:

Percutaneous Collagen Induction with Microneedling is a minimally invasive technique widely used to treat numerous dermatologic conditions such as facial and body scars, melasma, wrinkles, skin laxity, stretch marks, alopecies, vitiligo and scleroderma. Microneedling can also be used to optimize transdermal drug delivery for many substances.

This technique uses modern microneedling devices containing multiple fine needles, typically 0.5 to 2.5 mm in length, which are mounted on a barrel and rolled onto the skin to create numerous perforations into the stratum corneum and the papillary dermis. These micro-wounds initiate the release of growth factors, triggering collagen and elastin formation, which results in dermal remodeling and skin resurfacing.

This book provides a step-by-step approach to microneedling, based on the authors' more than ten years of experience with the technique, during which they have treated more than 3,000 patients in Brazil for numerous dermatologic conditions. Richly illustrated throughout, it includes over 400 illustrations.

Contents:

1. Fundamentals of Percutaneous Collagen Induction (PCI) with needles

2. Classification and characteristics of the injury provoked by PCI

3. Devices for PCI

4. Pain management in PCI - Analgesia and Anesthesia

5. Preparing the skin for PCI and Postoperative management

6. Histopathological evidences of the Percutaneous Collagen Induction with Microneedling

7. Managing complications in PCI

8. PCI in aging skin

9. PCI in the treatment of melasma

10. PCI Correcting post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation

11. Correcting acne scars using PCI

12. Correcting after accident scars using PCI

13. Correcting post-surgical scars using PCI

14. Correcting post burn scars using PCI

15. Correcting High and Hypertrophic Scars with PCI

16. Correcting stretch marks using PCI

17. Correcting laxity and cellulitis using PCI

18. PCI and transcutaneous drug delivery

19. PCI associate to fillings and botulin toxin

20. PCI in the treatment of the alopecies

21. PCI in the treatment of scleroderma

22. PCI in the hypochromias and achromias

23. PCI associated to Intense Pulsed Light

24. PCI associated to peelings

25. Fundamentals of the Dermal Tunneling (DT), a subincision (TM) variant

26. Dermal Tunneling in the treatment of depressed scars

27. Dermal Tunneling in the treatment of Static Wrinkles and Grooves

28. PCI associated to Multi-Needles Radiofrequency for the treatment of periorbital and perioral wrinkles and laxity

29. PCI associated to Multi-Needle radiofrequency for treatment of scars

30. PCI on Ethnic Skin