Artemis®️ RF Microneedling

Radiofrequency, or RF, is a type of energy derived from radio waves and can be used both for skin resurfacing and for skin tightening. It delivers heat into the deep layers of the skin, causing the collagen structures to tighten and, over time, to produce new collagen.

Microneedling is the process of applying a roller or pen-type device tipped with rows of tiny needles to the skin in order to create thousands of holes in the epidermis to increase the efficacy of skincare products and to stimulate growth factors and collagen production within the skin. Microneedling’s wound healing response also helps address surface skin and textural problems such as acne scars, large pores, stretch marks and wrinkles.

RF microneedling delivers radiofrequency energy into the skin through microneedles of varying lengths, which have been insulated, so that the RF energy emerges just at their tips.

Both radiofrequency and microneedling do very similar things, namely boosting collagen and elastin production in the skin. Radiofrequency stimulates our body’s cellular responses using heat, which helps tighten existing elastin and collagen at the same time as boosting new collagen. Microneedling creates a controlled injury, which stimulates the body’s wound healing response, once again kick-starting fibroblast activity, resulting in tightening and boosting of new and existing collagen and elastin.

The needles are insulated, except for their tips, so that the radiofrequency energy they dispense is delivered directly to the dermis, rather than dispersed into the rest of the skin that the needles are passing through.

Using needles to create micro-channels of damage enables the skin to heal itself faster than you would expect, because between each of the channels of damage is a portion of untreated, undamaged skin. So the skin isn’t trying to heal the whole of itself at once.

You will typically need around 4-6 radiofrequency microneedling treatments at regular intervals. This allows your skin to heal in between treatments. It can take three to six months to see results. After this, maintenance treatments are advised every 6 months- 1 year. However this depends on your own baseline (the quality of your skin before treatment) and your lifestyle factors i.e. how you look after your skin post treatment and whether you drink/smoke/eat an unhealthy diet or sunbathe.

Radiofrequency microneedling treatment can have side effects. It is using both heat and needles, so there is the potential for things to go wrong, albeit very rarely.

Treatable Areas Include:

• Face

• Neck

• Décolleté

• Hands