Cosmetic skin rejuvenation
AssigneePollogen Ltd.
InventorsPinchas Shalev, Zion Azar
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Abstract
A cosmetic method for treating a skin of a person is presented, the method comprises inserting one or more needles to one or more depths into the skin of the person such that at least a tip of at least one needle of the one or more needles is deployed within a muscle layer of the person's skin; applying a negative DC voltage to the one or more needles, while a skin of the person is in contact with a positive electrode to form one or more closed circuits of DC current through the person's body; and providing the DC current for a pre-selected amount of time to damage and/or ablate muscles and/or muscle nerve cells in the muscle layer; thereby providing a skin treatment comprising reducing and/or smoothing wrinkles from the person's skin.
Claims30
A method for treating a patient's tissue, comprising:
- providing an array of needle electrodes;
- providing a needle electrode array positioning motor configured and operable to deploy one or more of the needle electrodes in the array of needle electrodes to one or more depths into the patient's tissue;
- deploying, using the needle electrode array positioning motor, the one or more of the needle electrodes in the array of needle electrodes to variably selected depths into the patient's tissue;
- providing a radio frequency (RF) energy source coupled to the one or more needle electrodes in the array of needle electrodes;
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- applying, using the radio frequency (RF) energy source, radio frequency (RF) energy configured for fractional treatment of the patient's tissue, to treat pin-pointed areas of the patient's tissue surrounding the array of needle electrodes one or more of the needle electrodes, wherein the pin-pointed areas are surrounded by healthy tissue;, and,
- further comprising the step of removing, using the needle electrode array positioning motor, the deployed array of electrodes from the patient's tissue when the fractional treatment of the tissue has been completed.
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A device for treating a patient's tissue, comprising:
- an array of needle electrodes;
- a needle electrode array positioning motor configured and operable to deploy one or more of the needle electrodes in the array of needle electrodes to one or more depths into the patient's tissue;
- a radio frequency (RF) energy source coupled to the one or more needle electrodes in the array of needle electrodes;
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- at least one controller in communication with the needle electrode array positioning motor and the radio frequency (RF) energy source, configured and operable to:
- activate the needle array positioning motor to deploy the one or more needle electrodes in the array of needle electrodes to variably selected depths into the patient's tissue, and;
- activate the radio frequency (RF) energy source to apply radio frequency (RF) energy configured for fractional treatment of the patient's tissue, to treat pin-pointed areas of the patient's tissue surrounding the array of needles one or more of the needle electrodes, wherein the pin-pointed areas are surrounded by healthy tissue;, and,
- activate the needle electrode array positioning motor for removing the array of deployed needle electrodes from the patient's tissue when the fractional treatment of the tissue has been completed.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.