The exfoliation process can take place in your home and this article will outline the basics. The goal of the microdermabrasion is to remove the superficial layer of the skin know as the epidermis. In order to understand how microdermabrasion work it's best to start with the skin. The microdermabrasion can be done until you start to see your skin reddened or until you experience the first pain of abrasion. When you palpate the surface of the abraded skin, you will notice roughness of the skin, as you are feeling keratinocytes, which are better hydrated than the surface corneocytes.

Keratinocytes appear in the basal layer from the proliferation of keratinocyte stem cells. They are pushed up through the cells of the epidermis, undergoing gradual differentiation until they reach the stratum corneum where they create a layer of devitalized, flattened, strongly keratinized cells named squamous cells. This layer creates an effective barrier to the entry of foreign matter and infectious elements into the body and minimizes moisture loss. Keratinocytes are eliminated and restored continuously from the stratum corneum. The time of movement from basal layer to shedding is approximately one month.

Corneocytes are cells derived from keratinocytes during the late stages of terminal differentiation of squamous epithelia. Corneocyte desquamation at the skin surface is a complex natural event which is normally regulated for providing an inconspicuous shedding of single corneocytes.

What is Microdermabrasion?

The microdermabrasion is done to remove some of the corneocytes. These cells are responsible for the impermeability of the skin. The minimizing or elimination of scars, skin lesions, blotchiness and stretch marks from your skin can be an easy process with the use of skin exfoliation. The result depends on how well the procedure called "skin remodeling" works. The skin is able to cure lesions quickly to avoid blood loss and infection. Scar tissues are formed from a quickly formed "collagen glue" that the body gathers in an area for protection and strength when injured. In perfect skin healing, damaged skin is quickly reconnected or closed, then the healed area is slowly reconstructed to remove the residual collagen scar tissue and blend the skin patch into the surrounding skin. Excess collagen is eliminated and replaced with a mixture of skin cells and imperceptible collagen fibers.

Microdermbrasion Guide To Softer Skin

Microdermabrasion evolved from a technique known as dermabrasion. Dermabrasion has existed for decades and was employed to treat severe scarring by scrubbing the uppermost surface of the skin using an abrasive, metallic attachment. This highly effective technique requires recovery time, not to mention anesthesia. Microdermabrasion is a more natural skin care that is a gentler, less invasive technology to use for performing an exfoliation on the skin. And, there is no risk of dyschromia on darkly pigmented patients.

Skin Exfoliation Helps Scar Reduction

Results are better and fewer treatments are needed with more recent and/or shallow scars or stretch marks. Still, microdermabrasion improves stretch marks that showed up during adolescence or many years after pregnancy. Before starting the treatment you must know that the final result of the aspect of stretch marks will be a softening but never a complete fade. So you have to make a final decision when to end the treatment.