You’ve tried the creams and lotions, yet stretch marks persist. Topical treatments can certainly help fade the scars, but they don’t target the reason why you got stretch marks to begin with.
Stretch marks often appear as sunken lines and discoloration on your stomach, thighs, hips, breasts, arms, or buttocks. Although harmless to your health, they can take quite a toll on your self-esteem.
At Regain Functional Medicine + Aesthetics, we offer microneedling for stretch marks in Lawrence. This minimally invasive treatment improves the look and texture of your skin, often after just 3 sessions. Let’s begin by examining the root cause of stretch marks to understand why this treatment works.
What causes stretch marks?
Your skin relies on collagen and elastin, 2 structural proteins that provide your skin with structure, strength, and elasticity. Events like pregnancy, weight gain, and weight loss cause the skin to rapidly stretch or shrink, which can cause damage to the collagen and elastin in your body.
What is microneedling?
Microneedling refers to a specialized device equipped with tiny needles to create micro-injuries in the top layer of your skin (epidermis). While these wounds are incredibly small, they still make enough impact to stimulate your body’s natural healing response.
Immediately, your body takes action and increases collagen and elastin production, which helps generate new, healthy skin cells to improve your skin’s texture and tone. At Regain, we take this a step further and use Virtue RF microneedling device, which delivers heat to your dermis, the middle layer of skin that holds collagen and elastin. Traditional microneedling only targets the top layer of skin, so the added heat reaches deeper, giving you even better, more enhanced results.
How does microneedling help with stretch marks?
For your stretch marks, this treatment not only boosts the proteins responsible for skin health and strength, but it also helps your serums and lotions penetrate deeper into the skin, where your body can absorb them more effectively. With a regeneration of new, healthy skin cells replacing the old damaged cells, you’ll notice thicker and firmer skin after just 3 to 6 sessions.
Reach Out and Diminish Stretch Marks
At Regain, we support your skin from head to toe and inside out. With our NAD+ therapy and options like our HydraFacial treatment, we offer more than microneedling for stretch marks in Lawrence. To learn more about our treatments, request an appointment.
Alternatively, you can try our treatment planning tool. After receiving your submission, a member of our team will reach out with potential treatment options and available appointment times.
