Advances In Lockdown

Post lockdown, one of the most common treat­ments that patients will be having will be micro-needling, but in order to give your patients the best, it is important to understand how much technology has moved on in the last 12 months, particu­larly when it comes to micro-needling—clinical trials have been completed, technology has been peer reviewed and it is no longer business as usual for micro-needling.
Now, you can offer an advanced treatment in con­junction with your needling that will significantly im­prove the outcome for your patient with the patent pending SkinGenuity Range for both hair restoration and facial applications. These cost-effective treatments are available now to all clinics as an in-clinic treatment and a home kit.
 
Inter-Cell Messengers 
The new technology that makes these changes pos­sible is based upon Nobel Prize winning innovations that are now becoming available for use in aesthetic treat­ments. These are inter-cell messengers or bio-signals that are incorporated into our in-clinic as well as home treatments. This technology has already been incorpo­rated into aesthetic treatments with the use of PRP, but the inconvenience of taking blood and the cost has lim­ited its spread. With the use of the SkinGenuity Inter-Cell Messengers, these treatments are now available to eve­ryone at a fraction of the cost.
The main inter-cell messengers used in current aes­thetic treatment are growth factors and DNA repair en­zymes, which repair, regenerate and improve skin health and help improve hair restoration in conjunction with micro-needling.
The inter-cell messengers are recognised by the body and through transcription and translation of the DNA in the cell, they tell the body to replicate skin or hair cells thus helping repair, regenerate and improve. Once one inter-cell messenger has signalled for a cell to produce a new cell then this divides into two and then four and so on, in a safe manner replacing cells that are needed to improve the signs of aging, hair restoration.
 
SkinGenuity range 
The inter-cell messengers have all been proven indi­vidually as well as in the SkinGenuity range to help with common aesthetic treatments. The success of the SkinG­enuity range in clinical trials is based upon the advances that have been made in the understanding of the tech­nology and the enhancements to the delivery of these inter-cell messengers.
The inter-cell messengers are all focused and targeted for the specific condition so that when applied work most effectively with the body’s natural healing process.
SkinGenuity’s Inter-Cell Messengers are at a high con­centration so that enough will penetrate the skin to be effective.
Growth factors are large molecules and so need help penetrating the skin. The SkinGenuity’s Inter-Cell Mes­sengers are all nano-encapsulated to ensure that they penetrate the skin and work where they are most ef­fective.
The SkinGenuity range all contain multiple Inter-Cell Messengers which work synergistically to maximise the outcome for the patients.
Clinical studies have taken place over the last year which have proven the potential of SkinGenuity Inter- Cell Messengers to improve facial rejuvenation and hair restoration when used with micro-needling.

A recently published study in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology has shown that the use of the SkinGenu­ity Regenerative Solution in conjunction with micro-needling gives a significant better outcome to the patient’s treatment than micro-needling alone. In ad­dition, it will reduce the down time and inflammation as the majority of the Inter-Cell Messengers have an anti-inflammatory effect.
 
Hair Restoration 
Clinics now have the opportunity to increase their offering to pa­tients by incorporating the SkinGenuity Hair Restoration protocol in combination with their micro-needling treatments. This allows a cost-effective way to enter the largest growing segment of aesthet­ics, without purchasing expensive equipment.
The SkinGenuity Hair Restoration Solution is used in conjunction with micro-needling and contains focussed and targeted Inter-Cell Messengers that have been proven to help improve hair restoration.
The patients can then take home the SkinGenuity Hair Restoration Home Kit that continues the micro-needling with needling appli­cations every other day and the advanced SkinGenuity Botanical Brush that uses clinically proven ingredients to help improve the density and volume of hair growth.
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