Turning Back The Clock On Your Skin

Date: 11th May 2007, Source: Althealth News

A local doctor has created a new painless way to resurface your skin to help you turn back the clock on your face using a three-pronged approach, which may lead to better skin.

Lynn Pura, Patient: "I'm looking to smooth out these fine lines and to just get my skin looking more fresh."

Lynn Pura is trying a new procedure she hopes will give her a more youthful look. Dr. Daniel McGrath pioneered a newly patented treatment he calls the Pallone procedure. It's a combination of three resurfacing treatments, applied one after another.

Dr. Daniel McGrath, MD, Pallone Procedure Inventor: "We've basically taken all the things that have been used commonly and we've put them together in an effective fashion."

First, he uses a light microdermabrasion peel to remove the top layer of skin. After giving Lynn's entire face the light peel, he wipes it clean.

Next, Dr. McGrath uses an irbium laser. Row by row, the laser's heat resurfaces the skin, removing blemishes and discolorations. The irbium laser also helps tighten the skin, triggering the rebuilding of collagen under the skin surface.

But the key to the Pallone procedure is a transderm device. It's filled with hyaluronic gel and uses iontophoresis -- basically electric currents -- to push the gel through the now-porous top layers of skin.

Hyaluronic acid is not new. Doctors have been injecting it as a filler for several years and it's the main ingredient in restylane and several other dermal fillers.

Dr. McGrath claims the transderm device makes the difference, using negative and positive electrical pulses to force the hyaluronic gel into deeper tissues. And it's done without any needles.

Dr. Daniel McGrath, MD, Pallone Procedure Inventor: "With the transdermal application, there's no side effects, there's literally no down time and there's no concern or fear of the needle with the injection."

Forty-five-year-old Vivian Currington says it greatly improved her sun-damaged skin.

Vivian Currington, Pallone Procedure Patient: "After the procedure I feel a lot younger -- maybe five or six years younger because when you look in the mirror, you don't see those deep lines and your make-up applies so much better and you feel good about yourself."

When Lynn's treatment is finished, her skin appears a bit red and raw. But within a couple of days, Dr. McGrath says she should heal with younger looking skin, giving her wrinkle relief without the pain of injections.