Dermatologist Cristina Safta from the Cronos Med clinic talks about the use at home of machines that promise results comparable to those in professional practices. As for microneedling machines, the dermatologist points out that most of them cannot be disinfected and run the risk of superinfection.
"I still get questions like this or find out from patients that they have various led lamp type accessories at home which they recognize that they shouldn't do any harm. On the contrary, they can help me if they are some that are approved and certified in the direction we recommend. That is, they look very much like professional ones, but they are not of the same intensity," explained dermatologist Cristina Safta on Tuesday evening on Medika Tv.
But the doctor doesn't recommend using needle devices at home.
"When it comes to microneedling with needles to use with dermaroller, that's more popular, that's where I would say a big 'No', because once on the hand, the needles are very large in diameter and are irritating to the skin, they trigger an inflammatory process there and will only, unfortunately, increase the risk of unsightly scarring. And secondly, we remember: when we do microneedling procedures in the microneedling office, so a needle therapy, but done medicalized, the needles are disposable, they are thrown away and that was it. When it comes to home use, you can't disinfect as a specialist would do, you may not even have the necessary resources at hand, and the dermaroller that you use certainly doesn't have disposable needles and then it's difficult to sterilize it properly and there's a risk through the breaches that you make in your skin that you can carry all sorts of microbes, you can get superinfections. I don't think it justifies the risk in the end," the specialist argued.
Article source: news.ro
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