Less Invasive, Less Expensive, More Effective 
With so many choices, how do you choose from one non-surgical skin treatment over the other? How do you know which is best for you? Here’s an easy comparison of three non-surgical, minimally invasive techniques taking into consideration known side effects, downtime, expected results, and cost.
The skin reacts to microneedling / dermarolling by cell regeneration. In comparison, skin reacts to thermal heat or any other ablative procedures (Fraxel Laser, CO2 resurfacing, Fraxel Repair) with the body’s repair mechanism – fibrosis, also known as scar tissue.
Micro-needling is an affordable and a natural way to create your own collagen without damaging the outer layer of the skin.
What Happens?
All treatments have a common goal: injure the skin just enough to begin natural healing processes. Ablative treatments like chemical peels, dermabrasion, and laser skin resurfacing accomplish this task by removing the entire top layer of skin. Microdermabrasion is also ablative, but it is superficial and cannot treat deeper imperfections. New technologies like, Fraxel Repair (C02 fractionated), Fraxel 1500, Thermage, Sonalift, and IPL are non-ablative (they do not remove the top layer) and have demonstrated effectiveness, but the equipment is very expensive, thus treatments are very costly to the patient.
It's difficult to understand the difference of cell renewal by microneedling and procedures like fractional laser devices which uses skin repair mechanisms (fibrosis/ scar tissue). However, any heat beam above 48°C transforms protein into fibrosis (scar tissue). With resurfacing CO2 lasers the skin is removed horizontally in order to force it to build up new tissue. Fractionated laser beams enter the skin vertically and the laser beam sets many fine scars in the dermis. The term “fractional” means: the skin has to be thermally punctured in fractions with healthy (not lasered) tissue in between the thermal punctures. The problem seems to be, that no one is able to tell in a follow-up session, which skin point was lasered before. Theoretically, the same little scar can be hit several times and the results are below expectations. Moreover, thermal skin treatments can be very painful. This is easy to understand, simply because burn wounds heal relatively slow and thermally melted nerve receptors have a longer pain memory.
The MTS dermaroller is unique because it produces better results without expensive equipment and without removing skin layers; treatments are inexpensive and pose minimal risks.
Treatments
- Dermabrasion and Chemical Peels
Dermabrasion and Chemical Peels are popular ablative techniques. Dermabrasion requires the clinician to use a power driven hand-held machine with a rotating metal wheel and a diamond fraise or a wire brush to remove the top layers of the skin. It can be performed using a general or a local anesthetic, depending on the area submitted to the treatment. Chemical peels use a mild acid solution to achieve the same effect. To ensure successful outcomes, both ablatives requires a great deal of clinical artistry, skill, and experience. - Laser Skin Resurfacing (C02, Fraxel RE:pair, Fraxel)
Laser skin resurfacing uses high intensity light emissions to vaporize the top layers of the skin in order to either remove scars or wrinkles. Like dermabrasion and chemical peel, laser resurfacing stimulates collagen and elastin production in the skin as a means of making wrinkles and other imperfections less visible. Also, like other ablatives, laser resurfacing requires a great deal of clinical artistry, skill, and experience to ensure a positive outcome. - Non-Ablative Machine-Based Treatments
Non-Ablative Machine-based treatments include a wide array of recent innovations, many of them quite new and very expensive. Thermage (radio frequency, RF) , Sonalift (ultrasound) treatments deliver high energy to a large area of tissue with no epidermal injury. The underlying effect is the same as microwave cooking. IPL (intense pulse light) or ‘photorejuvenation’ focuses broad spectrum light onto the skin to influence texture and pigmentation. - Microdermabrasion
Microdermabrasion is a milder peeling procedure (ablative); a gentle mechanical peel that uses a stream of aluminum crystals (or a diamond tip wand) and suction to gently exfoliate the skin. Home care microderabrasion kits are readily available from many pharmacies and department stores. - MTS Roller™
MTS Roller™ is a mesotherapeutic ‘non-ablative’ non-surgical tool which facilitates a procedure, preserves the top layer of skin while inducing the body to produce collagen and elastin. Treatment involves a roller with needles ranging from short length (0.2 mm) to long length (3.0 mm). The clinical version must be administered by a clinician with a mild topical anesthetic.
Personal care versions are available for home use.
Downtime
The downtime required of various skin therapies depends on the depth of the injury caused to the skin. Microdermabrasion produces very little downtime – a few hours of tingling and redness. But a deep chemical peel can keep you at home on painkillers for as long as two weeks.
Dermabrasion and laser resurfacing will leave your skin red and swollen for around ten days, total recuperation can be up to three weeks. Because they are non-ablative, CO2 and Fraxel lasers, Thermage, and IPL treatments do not produce significant downtime, but the claim of ‘no downtime’ is somewhat exaggerated. For instance, CO2 patients develop redness and swelling that may last 5-10 days; residual pain may linger for several days. With a chance of prolonged redness for a year.
MTS Roller™ is non-ablative and produces little downtime – skin may be red and sensitive for about two to three hours after treatment.
Skin Treatment Comparison
MTS Roller: Non- Invasive, Less Expensive, More Effective
Risks And Side Effects
There are ample horror stories about inadequate care by professionals when performing dermabrasion, chemical peels and laser resurfacing. Not only do these procedures require a great deal of training to master, they also require some amount of artistry in judging how much of the skin to remove; too little and the patient walks away with less than what they paid for, too much and there could be permanent damage like scarring or pigmentation changes. Moreover, these treatments may not be suitable for people with darker skin.
Meanwhile, new machine-based treatments like Fraxel laser, Thermage, IPL, and other non-ablative do not exhibit many side effects, but the performance/ artistry risks are the same. Microdermabrasion appears to have the advantage of exhibiting few side effects and little risk it is a less invasive procedure. As such, however microdermabrasion isn't effective on deeper acne scars, wrinkles, age spots or stretch marks.
MTS Roller™ has none of the common risks and offers all of the advantages of the most invasive and most expensive treatments. The needles can only go into the skin so far. The only variable is for the practitioner to determine which of the rollers to use. Even if he goes too deep, the damage is minimal and not permanent. Moreover, clinical studies have shown the mesotherapeutic effect of the MTS 0.5 mm roller outperforms all ablatives treatments including; chemical peels, dermabrasion, laser resurfacing, CO2 laser, Fraxel, and IPL, in terms of delivering smoother skin and a long lasting effect.
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