What is Microchanneling?

Microchanneling combined with powerful stem cell growth serums creates a new paradigm for advanced skin & hair rejuvenation. Micro-channeling activates your body’s natural regenerative ability to help tighten and rejuvenate skin, while minimizing many common skin problems. It also improves the clinical health of your skin by stimulating a rejuvenation response your body naturally undergoes to grow new skin.

By creating thousands of micro-perforations in the skin with our award winning device, we cause the skin’s fibroblast cells to produce more collagen & elastin which has been clinically proven to increase absorption of antioxidant & cell-based serums (prf, stem-cells) by up to 300% over traditional methods.

What Type of Results Are Expected?

This cutting-edge process will promote new healthy growth, improving the surface texture and the overall appearance of the area. Patients typically experience dramatic improvement with results showing in as few as 4-6 treatments. Results may vary.

Microchanneling will keep your skin looking and feeling younger by activating your body’s natural regenerative ability to help tighten and lift skin, while minimizing many common skin problems. Microchanneling will improve the appearance of:

• Fine Lines and Wrinkles
• Acne Scars and Surgical Scars
• Stretch Marks
• Sun Damage and Dark Spots
• Hyperpigmentation
• Firms, Tightens and Tones Skin

How Microchanneling Works – The Science

The Science behind “Microchanneling” is a procedure by which the body’s natural response to healing is used to increase the amount of extracellular matrix such as collagen or elastin in the skin. The micro-channels created by the Procell device allow for leakage of blood, serum, and lymph in a controlled and temporary manner which also allows for a detoxification process. These injuries are enough to initiate the wound healing cascade which is composed of three basic phases:

• Phase 1: Inflammation. Activation by piercing the dermal tissue, platelets release cytokines and growth factors which act as signals for the bodies immune system. Neutrophils and macrophage cells are sent in to disinfect the wounds, clear the debris, increase the blood supply and begin the creation of fresh, new cellular and extracellular materials.
• Phase 2: Proliferation. In this stage, the fibroblasts (cells that make up much of the dermis and create the extracellular matrix) keratinocytes and epidermal cells continue to divide to populate the areas of damage and secrete growth factors and extracellular matrix such as elastin and collagen.
• Phase 3: Remodeling. At this final stage, the wound has been replaced with new dermal tissues and newly formed vasculature is now matured. The collagen in the newly formed tissue is now replaced with stronger collagen and the tissue contracts to cause a “shrink wrap” effect of the skin.

What is Procell’s Microchanneling Serum?

ProCell’s Microchannel Delivery Serum contains bone marrow-derived growth factors in a hyaluronic acid suspension. Both elements are naturally occurring in the human body. There are no human, animal, or plant cells, DNA, blood, or any other foreign substances. The product has been used safely and effectively for over a decade. As you get older, the stem cells that produce the vital proteins necessary for repair lose efficacy and decline in population, so microchanneling alone becomes less and less effective. Because of premature aging, the Microchannel Delivery Serum and the post care Cellular Renewal Serum and Healing Accelerator Serum become more vital to improvement. Use of the ProCell aftercare products ensure the skin continuously receives potent, robust, pristine peptides, cytokines and growth factors even in between treatments. Think of diet and exercise – microchanneling without serums is like exercising without dieting. Results can be good with microchanneling only but are significantly amplified with serums. The aftercare serums also serve as a comprehensive daily skin regimen on their own.

How long until I see results?

Though the production of new collagen can take several weeks, it is not abnormal to notice an improvement in the quality and appearance of your skin within the first 24 hours. After 2-3 treatments a thicker more robust, collagen filled cellular matrix will produce more consistent and noticeable improvement. And 6 or more treatments may be recommended for scarring, laxity, and wrinkles.

Are there any contraindications?

If you have any underlying condition that significantly impairs your immune system, it is a good idea to avoid microchanneling. Examples include but are not limited to active radiation or chemotherapy, uncontrolled diabetes, chronic inflammatory skin disease, Accutane in the past 2 years, hemophilia, or similar bleeding disorder. Also, anyone with stainless steel allergies should not do this treatment. We also discourage treatments for those who are pregnant or nursing.

Adding Your Own Platelet Rich Fibrin (PRF)

Our blood contains red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma, platelets, and many other components. A platelet is a tiny cell fragment rich in growth factors that aid the wound healing process, as well as stimulate stem cells to produce collagen and elastin in the skin. Adding your own PRF allows our professionals to separate the components using a centrifuge and then added to the Procell Microchanneling Serum to accelerate healing, tissue regeneration, and increase stimulation of collagen. Unlike fillers and Botox injections, the PRF procedure is one hundred percent natural. Platelet-rich fibrin treatment has the capacity to release the growth factors over time, encouraging longer-term benefits than the microchanneling alone.

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Our Goal

The DaSilva Institute’s goal is to bring the most advanced technologies to our patients so they can have a better quality of life. Above all, your safety is always foremost in our minds.