Treatment of skin deformation
AssigneePrimaeva Medical, Inc.
InventorsBankim H. MEHTA, Bradley RENTON
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Abstract
The invention provides a system and method for percutaneous energy delivery in an effective, manner using one or more probes to effect a cosmetic improvement in tissue.
Claims26
A method of treating a surface undulation in skin, where the surface undulation is formed by a volume of bundled collagen beneath a surface of the skin and has a perimeter at the surface of the skin, the method comprising:
- locating a perimeter of the surface undulation;
- inserting at least one energy transfer unit through an epidermal layer of the skin within a treatment region beneath the perimeter of the surface undulation, where the energy transfer unit is electrically coupleable to an energy source and a controller;
- measuring at least one electrical parameter of the treatment region with the energy transfer unit to confirm placement of the energy transfer unit in at least a portion of dermal tissue;
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- supplying energy from the controller to the treatment region through the energy transfer unit to create a controlled lesion in the treatment region such that the controlled legion at least partially disrupts the bundled collagen to affect the surface undulation.
A method of treating a surface undulation in skin, where the surface undulation is formed by a volume of bundled collagen beneath a surface of the skin and has a perimeter at the surface of the skin, the method comprising:
- locating a perimeter of the surface undulation;
- inserting at least one energy transfer unit obliquely through an epidermal layer of the skin, where oblique insertion positions the energy transfer unit within a treatment region underneath the undulation and where the energy transfer unit is electrically coupleable to an energy source and a controller;
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- supplying energy from the controller to the treatment region through the energy transfer unit to create a controlled lesion in the treatment region such that the controlled legion at least partially disrupts the bundled collagen to affect the surface undulation.
A method of treating a deformation scar in skin, where the deformation scar is caused by one or more masses of tissue beneath a surface of the skin and has a perimeter at the surface of the skin, the method comprising:
- locating the deformation scar;
- inserting at least one energy transfer unit through an epidermal layer of the skin within a treatment region beneath the perimeter of the deformation scar, where the energy transfer unit is electrically coupleable to an energy source and a controller;
- supplying energy from the controller to the treatment region through the energy transfer unit to create a controlled lesion in the treatment region beneath the deformation scar and within the mass of tissue, such that healing of the controlled lesion replaces the mass of tissue with dermal tissue to at least partially disrupt the effect of the mass of tissue on the deformation scar.
A method of treating a deformation scar in skin, where the deformation scar comprises a concave depression on the skin surface, the concave depression having a perimeter and a depth, the method comprising:
- locating the deformation scar;
- inserting at least one energy transfer unit through an epidermal layer of the skin within a treatment region beneath the concave depression of the deformation scar, and where the energy transfer unit is electrically coupleable to an energy source and a controller;
- supplying energy from the controller to the treatment region through the energy transfer unit to create a controlled lesion in the treatment region beneath the deformation scar, where the controlled lesion heals to produce new tissue to decrease the depth of the concave depression on the skin surface without generating additional scar tissue.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.