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Dr. Teo Soleymani

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Dhru Purohit Show
Want to Maintain Youthful Skin At Any Age? Top Dermatologist and Skin Cancer Expert Shares his Favorite Skin Tips and Tools and Busts Major Myths Around Skin Damage with Dr. Teo Soleymani

Radio frequency microneedling, I will put as an F. Okay. Microneedling, I will put as an A. Okay, great. Huge difference, right? Huge difference. So we're tapping into the world of... things that you can do to your skin to improve its appearance and health. And that's light-based devices, energy-based devices, mechanical-based devices, things like that.

Dhru Purohit Show
Want to Maintain Youthful Skin At Any Age? Top Dermatologist and Skin Cancer Expert Shares his Favorite Skin Tips and Tools and Busts Major Myths Around Skin Damage with Dr. Teo Soleymani

Radio frequency microneedling, I will put as an F. Okay. Microneedling, I will put as an A. Okay, great. Huge difference, right? Huge difference. So we're tapping into the world of... things that you can do to your skin to improve its appearance and health. And that's light-based devices, energy-based devices, mechanical-based devices, things like that.

Dhru Purohit Show
Want to Maintain Youthful Skin At Any Age? Top Dermatologist and Skin Cancer Expert Shares his Favorite Skin Tips and Tools and Busts Major Myths Around Skin Damage with Dr. Teo Soleymani

Why I don't like radiofrequency microneedling? Several reasons. Number one, radio frequency treats a whole different part of the skin than does microneedling. Microneedling, the general depth that it can penetrate at most is somewhere around two and a half millimeters. And when we use microneedling, our goal is to stimulate collagen induction through making microscopic pokes in the skin.

Dhru Purohit Show
Want to Maintain Youthful Skin At Any Age? Top Dermatologist and Skin Cancer Expert Shares his Favorite Skin Tips and Tools and Busts Major Myths Around Skin Damage with Dr. Teo Soleymani

Why I don't like radiofrequency microneedling? Several reasons. Number one, radio frequency treats a whole different part of the skin than does microneedling. Microneedling, the general depth that it can penetrate at most is somewhere around two and a half millimeters. And when we use microneedling, our goal is to stimulate collagen induction through making microscopic pokes in the skin.

Dhru Purohit Show
Want to Maintain Youthful Skin At Any Age? Top Dermatologist and Skin Cancer Expert Shares his Favorite Skin Tips and Tools and Busts Major Myths Around Skin Damage with Dr. Teo Soleymani

Why I don't like radiofrequency microneedling? Several reasons. Number one, radio frequency treats a whole different part of the skin than does microneedling. Microneedling, the general depth that it can penetrate at most is somewhere around two and a half millimeters. And when we use microneedling, our goal is to stimulate collagen induction through making microscopic pokes in the skin.

Dhru Purohit Show
Want to Maintain Youthful Skin At Any Age? Top Dermatologist and Skin Cancer Expert Shares his Favorite Skin Tips and Tools and Busts Major Myths Around Skin Damage with Dr. Teo Soleymani

That's what it does. And it does it without heat. The beauty of microneedling is its mechanical injury, not heat injury. So historically, ethnic skin like yourself, myself, you know, African-American skin, what have you, could not tolerate a lot of laser devices. The heat would destroy the cells that produces our skin color, the melanocytes.

Dhru Purohit Show
Want to Maintain Youthful Skin At Any Age? Top Dermatologist and Skin Cancer Expert Shares his Favorite Skin Tips and Tools and Busts Major Myths Around Skin Damage with Dr. Teo Soleymani

That's what it does. And it does it without heat. The beauty of microneedling is its mechanical injury, not heat injury. So historically, ethnic skin like yourself, myself, you know, African-American skin, what have you, could not tolerate a lot of laser devices. The heat would destroy the cells that produces our skin color, the melanocytes.

Dhru Purohit Show
Want to Maintain Youthful Skin At Any Age? Top Dermatologist and Skin Cancer Expert Shares his Favorite Skin Tips and Tools and Busts Major Myths Around Skin Damage with Dr. Teo Soleymani

That's what it does. And it does it without heat. The beauty of microneedling is its mechanical injury, not heat injury. So historically, ethnic skin like yourself, myself, you know, African-American skin, what have you, could not tolerate a lot of laser devices. The heat would destroy the cells that produces our skin color, the melanocytes.

Dhru Purohit Show
Want to Maintain Youthful Skin At Any Age? Top Dermatologist and Skin Cancer Expert Shares his Favorite Skin Tips and Tools and Busts Major Myths Around Skin Damage with Dr. Teo Soleymani

So we could do all these things amazingly in white skin, and it was studied in white skin, but ethnic skin, we're like, yeah, you can't use this laser, you can't use this laser, etc., etc. We have nothing for you. Microneedling came about.

Dhru Purohit Show
Want to Maintain Youthful Skin At Any Age? Top Dermatologist and Skin Cancer Expert Shares his Favorite Skin Tips and Tools and Busts Major Myths Around Skin Damage with Dr. Teo Soleymani

So we could do all these things amazingly in white skin, and it was studied in white skin, but ethnic skin, we're like, yeah, you can't use this laser, you can't use this laser, etc., etc. We have nothing for you. Microneedling came about.

Dhru Purohit Show
Want to Maintain Youthful Skin At Any Age? Top Dermatologist and Skin Cancer Expert Shares his Favorite Skin Tips and Tools and Busts Major Myths Around Skin Damage with Dr. Teo Soleymani

So we could do all these things amazingly in white skin, and it was studied in white skin, but ethnic skin, we're like, yeah, you can't use this laser, you can't use this laser, etc., etc. We have nothing for you. Microneedling came about.

Dhru Purohit Show
Want to Maintain Youthful Skin At Any Age? Top Dermatologist and Skin Cancer Expert Shares his Favorite Skin Tips and Tools and Busts Major Myths Around Skin Damage with Dr. Teo Soleymani

It's actually an old technique, very popular in India and the Middle East that was around for many, many years and caught popularity in the US more recently as a way to induce collagen without heat, but mechanical injury. So now we have a way to improve scars, to improve texture. Radio frequency is heat that's deposited in a layer below where the microneedle reaches.

Dhru Purohit Show
Want to Maintain Youthful Skin At Any Age? Top Dermatologist and Skin Cancer Expert Shares his Favorite Skin Tips and Tools and Busts Major Myths Around Skin Damage with Dr. Teo Soleymani

It's actually an old technique, very popular in India and the Middle East that was around for many, many years and caught popularity in the US more recently as a way to induce collagen without heat, but mechanical injury. So now we have a way to improve scars, to improve texture. Radio frequency is heat that's deposited in a layer below where the microneedle reaches.

Dhru Purohit Show
Want to Maintain Youthful Skin At Any Age? Top Dermatologist and Skin Cancer Expert Shares his Favorite Skin Tips and Tools and Busts Major Myths Around Skin Damage with Dr. Teo Soleymani

It's actually an old technique, very popular in India and the Middle East that was around for many, many years and caught popularity in the US more recently as a way to induce collagen without heat, but mechanical injury. So now we have a way to improve scars, to improve texture. Radio frequency is heat that's deposited in a layer below where the microneedle reaches.

Dhru Purohit Show
Want to Maintain Youthful Skin At Any Age? Top Dermatologist and Skin Cancer Expert Shares his Favorite Skin Tips and Tools and Busts Major Myths Around Skin Damage with Dr. Teo Soleymani

And the problem with radio frequency is it falls in this like ambiguous, doesn't work really great zone. It's not deep enough to cause tightening in the fat layer. And it's not shallow enough to get the benefits that we're looking for things that treat the top layer of skin. So what I see often is it's

Dhru Purohit Show
Want to Maintain Youthful Skin At Any Age? Top Dermatologist and Skin Cancer Expert Shares his Favorite Skin Tips and Tools and Busts Major Myths Around Skin Damage with Dr. Teo Soleymani

And the problem with radio frequency is it falls in this like ambiguous, doesn't work really great zone. It's not deep enough to cause tightening in the fat layer. And it's not shallow enough to get the benefits that we're looking for things that treat the top layer of skin. So what I see often is it's

Dhru Purohit Show
Want to Maintain Youthful Skin At Any Age? Top Dermatologist and Skin Cancer Expert Shares his Favorite Skin Tips and Tools and Busts Major Myths Around Skin Damage with Dr. Teo Soleymani

And the problem with radio frequency is it falls in this like ambiguous, doesn't work really great zone. It's not deep enough to cause tightening in the fat layer. And it's not shallow enough to get the benefits that we're looking for things that treat the top layer of skin. So what I see often is it's

Dhru Purohit Show
Want to Maintain Youthful Skin At Any Age? Top Dermatologist and Skin Cancer Expert Shares his Favorite Skin Tips and Tools and Busts Major Myths Around Skin Damage with Dr. Teo Soleymani

You know, whenever you get something that is too good to be true, they say it treats everything or it does everything, you should start to question it. Like, does it really treat scars and redness and blemish and wrinkles and fine lines and brown spots? Can't really do that. You start to see the consequences.

Dhru Purohit Show
Want to Maintain Youthful Skin At Any Age? Top Dermatologist and Skin Cancer Expert Shares his Favorite Skin Tips and Tools and Busts Major Myths Around Skin Damage with Dr. Teo Soleymani

You know, whenever you get something that is too good to be true, they say it treats everything or it does everything, you should start to question it. Like, does it really treat scars and redness and blemish and wrinkles and fine lines and brown spots? Can't really do that. You start to see the consequences.

Dhru Purohit Show
Want to Maintain Youthful Skin At Any Age? Top Dermatologist and Skin Cancer Expert Shares his Favorite Skin Tips and Tools and Busts Major Myths Around Skin Damage with Dr. Teo Soleymani

You know, whenever you get something that is too good to be true, they say it treats everything or it does everything, you should start to question it. Like, does it really treat scars and redness and blemish and wrinkles and fine lines and brown spots? Can't really do that. You start to see the consequences.