Systems and methods for treating lips and skin
AssigneeJohn H. Shadduck
InventorJohn H. Shadduck
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Abstract
Methods and devices for treating a targeted tissue including a skin or a lip and more particularly methods and devices that enhances absorption of treatment media into tissue for cosmetic and therapeutic purposes, where applicators for treating the targeted tissue are configured to apply negative pressure with an aspiration portion having a plurality of apertures distributed over the aspiration portion, and the distal tip of the applicator has a low friction surface such that the distal tip of the applicator is configured to contact the targeted tissue to apply the negative pressure while maintaining a low friction surface against the targeted tissue.
Claims20
A method for treating a targeted tissue comprising a skin or a lip of a subject, comprising:
- providing an applicator carrying a negative pressure source capable of applying a negative pressure within the applicator, wherein a distal tip of the applicator has a perimeter portion surrounding a recessed region having a plurality of rolling members each being spherical and each located in a space in the recessed region, the plurality of rolling members are also configured to roll in any direction, the plurality of rolling members each having a plurality of channels formed therein forming an aspiration portion, the distal tip further comprising a low friction surface surrounding the recessed region;
- contacting the targeted tissue of the skin or the lip with the distal tip of the applicator while maintaining the low friction surface against the targeted tissue;
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- applying the negative pressure and moving the distal tip over the targeted tissue while maintaining the low friction surface against the targeted tissue to transiently cause negative pressure in a subsurface tissue where the low friction surface permits movement of the distal tip against the targeted tissue.
A device for treating a targeted tissue comprising a skin or a lip of a subject, comprising:
- an applicator body carrying a negative pressure source for providing a negative pressure within the applicator body;
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- a distal tip of the applicator body having a perimeter portion configured for contacting the targeted tissue, wherein the perimeter portion surrounds a recessed region having a plurality of rolling members each being spherical and each rolling member located in a space within the recessed region and where the plurality of rolling members are configured to roll in any direction, the plurality of rolling members each having a plurality of channels formed therein forming an aspiration portion, the aspiration portion having a plurality of apertures distributed over the aspiration portion such that a surface of the aspiration portion between the plurality of apertures comprises a non-apertured field, and wherein the plurality of apertures are configured to apply the negative pressure to the targeted tissue;
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- wherein the plurality of apertures are distributed over the aspiration portion to distribute the negative pressure over all regions of the aspiration portion exposed in the perimeter portion that interface with the targeted tissue.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.