AIAM offers Skin Sculpting Technique training with Dermasculpt smooth-tip microcannula

Sep 16 2010

The latest trend among European doctors, a non-bruising & virtually painless injection technique for fillers using an FDA-approved, FLEXIBLE smooth-tip 27G 1 ½" microcannula instead of a sharp needle has now made its way to this side of the Atlantic. The American Institute of Aesthetic Medicine (AIAM) a scientific society founded by French pioneer aesthetic doctor Luc Dewandre offers continuing aesthetic medical education to U.S. and international physicians. AIAM is currently offering training courses in the U.S. on the Skin Sculpting Technique™ (SST) using the Dermasculpt ® smooth-tip microcannula.

With SST, the anxiety of the past is removed for patients. Contrary to the traditional method of injection which causes bruising and pain, SST causes virtually no bruising and considerably less pain and utilizes a single point of entry for less trauma and wider coverage. Most revolutionary are the mechanical stimulation of fibroblast and the production of NEW collagen from the microcannula's movement.

This technique, discussed at the 2010 AAD summer conference by renowned Dr. Susan Weinkle and others, is being credited as the most important innovation in the field since the invention of the HA filler 15 years ago.

SST allows the practitioner to literally sculpt the skin, recreating volume and erasing wrinkles and folds. Doctors first prick the skin with a 26G sharp needle and then perpendicularly insert Dermasculpt ®. The practitioner then stretches the skin and bends the cannula to be superficially parallel to the skin surface. From a single entry point, he/she has the ability to navigate the area with ease and fan the area of coverage. There is no worry of tearing skin tissues or hitting a vein or a nerve as the smooth-tip microcannula is the guide injecting in a retrograde fashion. This technique works brilliantly to rejuvenate the tear valley and dark eye circles, temples, nasolabial folds, buccal fat pads, marionette lines, upper & lower lips, chin and even the hands.

Finally known in the U.S., Skin Sculpting Technique™ (SST) using a smooth-tip microcannula is rapidly becoming the preferred method of filler injections by prominent doctors around the country.