1001 Nights Dermaroller® Workshop

Dear Dermaroller Friends,

You possibly read the book 1001 nights, full of fantastic stories about the old days in the Orient. It sounds like distant history but oil, the black gold, made it possible that these dreams revived from the sandy dessert.

(A picture from my book THE WHITE SLAVE, 1995 in the UAE desert)

Imagine, only some 40 years ago the people from Abu Dhabi, the Capital of the United Arab Emirates, lived in such shanties covered by palm leafs. I visited the Emirates first time in 1975 and lived there for many years. So I was a witness of that miracle of 1000 and 1 nights.

And in only 40 years the revenues from their oil income catapulted them into the 21^st century – “From Rags to Riches” as a book title describes this miracle.

The EMIRATES PALCAE

However, as rich as the former Beduins may be now, they are humans like you and me, and many of them have skin problems such as deep acne scars, pigmentation problems or severe scars from accidents.

Several tons of gold were used for decoration

Rich as they are they bought all sorts of expensive lasers but operated them with little success. So they called us to give lectures and to teach their doctors and demonstrate how the Dermaroller® can change their life to the better. Also doctors from Saudi Arabia and Iran flew in to Abu Dhabi to attend the meeting to gain practical knowledge and learn all the little, but important tricks to achieve perfect results.

Dr Igor Safonov demonstrates his skill

Michael explains and answers thousand and 1 question

At the end of the four days workshops in many clinics, from Abu Dhabi to Dubai and the Emirate of Sharjah, some doctors admitted that they have worked with cheap copies from China and Korea and never achieved at least reasonable results. Only after they treated their patients with the Original Genuine Dermaroller® they suddenly understood the difference between quality and trash.

In addition it was an honour and a pleasure for us to invite Dr Igor Safonov from Kiev/Ukraine to join Michael and myself on that Oriental Workshop. I personally admire Dr Igor and consider him as one of the best dermatologist I have ever met in my Dermaroller-life.  As far as I am concerned there is no other doctor on earth that knows more about scars and how to treat them successfully – at least in most cases. For scar improvement he does not use the Dermaroller® alone, but mainly, he also developed different techniques that often result in a combination with the medical Dermaroller® and the medical Dermastamp®.

Dr Igor and his happy patients

He has treated far over 6.000 scar cases in his Kiev clinic and in the middle of this year he’ll harvest the crown for all his dedicated work: The world’s leading publisher for medical literature SPRINGER offered him an author’s contract for his outstanding book “THE SCAR ATLAS”. The case below, treated solely with the Original Medical Dermastamp®, is only one of over 600 photos to be published in his book.

A very disfiguring scar caused by a smashed glass (2 treatments with Dermastamp® in combination with a special home care ointment)

As far as I am concerned he would be the next candidate for the Nobel Price in Medicine. So far scars led a shadowy existence in medicine, but Dr Igor perfectly demonstrated that many people don’t have to live with their disfigurement. I am proud and happy at the same time that I met this gentleman 4 years ago when he asked me to visit him in Kiev to demonstrate the Dermaroller® and Dermastamp®. Since then he is our biggest fan.

Once you visit the Orient, don’t forget to ask for Lebanese food – fantastic!

What did we learn from this Oriental workshop in one of the richest countries in the world?

Money cannot buy everything only science is the base of success. Teaching and medical knowledge, paired with skill and a perfect tooled Medical Device, such as the Original Dermaroller®, form the foundation to help patients to forget their disfigurement.

Sincerely Yours,

Your Dermaroller Team

Horst Liebl

Dermaroller® wins Award

London, December 10, 2011 – Once again, Dermaroller® is receiving international attention for its innovative medical devices, used in skin micro-needling. At the 2011-12 Aesthetic Awards™ Show, held last month in Europe (the UK), Dermaroller® won the top-tier Gold Award as Facial Treatment of the Year and the Consumer Choice Treatment of the Year.
As inventor of the micro-needle device, Dermaroller® has led the way for over 12 years, proving itself as the leader in this industry with over 1 million successful procedures. Through non-surgical techniques, patients have been able to safely overcome unsightly acne scars, fine lines, oily pores, aging skin, stretch marks, and sun damage. Dermaroller® makes sure its reputation remains strong by ensuring that all of their providers are trained on the safety, effectiveness, and limits of each device, guaranteeing each procedure is indeed a safe one for the patient.
“As a dermatologist with more than six years experience using The Genuine Dermaroller®,” says Dr. Nelson Lee Novick, “I have been treating different and often difficult types of scars, including acne, traumatic injury, surgical, and burn scars. I have found that medical micro-needling with the Dermaroller®, versus other brands, to yield gratifying results for improving photo-damaged crinkly/creepy and blotchy pigmented skin.” Novick, a clinical professor of dermatology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, adds: “When compared to fraxel lasers, medical micro-needling (Collagen Induction Therapy) with the Dermaroller® has the advantages of being considerably less expensive, may be used anywhere on the body, and when recently tested against intense pulsed light therapy (IPL), was shown to promote a greater degree of new collagen formation.”

The hidden danger of Peelings

Dear Friends,

Medical Peelings, cosmetic peelings performed by beauticians and also so-called “light” or “fruit” peelings sold as OTC skin care products became very popular in recent years. Nobody actually cares for the term peeling or peel and its meaning. It originates from Latin and means: to remove the outer covering or skin… In comparison to dermabrasion, a mechanically procedure with a fast rotating diamond wheel, any peeling-compound is an acid based formulation. So the easy conclusion is, skin is ablated by acid. And the chemical action of acid is a “silent” (non visible) burning. Acid acts over time and by concentration. Especially high concentrated acids are tricky and difficult to handle. Left on the skin for too long and not properly neutralised by a base will result in scars.

Consumers may think: “My product is so mild is does not harm the skin” – wrong! No doubt after a peeling, the skin looks fresher and younger, especially on women’s skin beyond the thirties. The reason simply is, that the proliferation of new keratinocytes slows down with age, and therefore the skin’s top most layer, the Stratum Corneum, stays longer on the epidermis. The scales are subject to UV radiation and other environmental influences and they loose the natural transparency of keratin scales – they become slightly grayish. If removed by acid the skin gains more transparency. Provided a low acid concentration in a skin friendly cosmetic formulation is used we would not have to concentrate on this subject. However, reality is different. Being amazed by the positive skin response after the initial first trial, people start to exaggerate. Instead of peeling the skin according to instruction, possibly once a month, it is done daily. And each time, a tiny scale layer is removed. On top, we have another problem: Cheap acid products from non-controlled manufacturers and copycats, even the best FDA cannot control. The 5% concentration, written on the product, eventually turns out to be 30% and often more. Also the term “fruit” is misleading. Acid is acid, regardless from where it originates. In the end the consumer pays a high price by cancer in distant years.

The skin has two major enemies for premature aging: UVA & UVB radiation and so called “free radicals” (oxygen triplets). UVA and UVB are the same rays they only differ in wavelength and penetration depth. Our culture connotes that a suntanned Caucasian skin gives us the impression of health and beauty. The rest we understand by just glancing at the beach. Like oil-marinated Herrings to be air-dried they lie side by side – for hours. The grilling session is interrupted only by applying a new oil layer, and a drink for cooling off – so they think. They use cheap Sun Blockers by the Gallons and feel protected. They do not know that these Sun blockers have only chemical UVA/B filters that change their molecular structure by body fluids (sweat) within minutes. The longer they expose to the sun, the more UVA/B is transformed into infrared rays that are felt as heat, and the more they drink and sweat. So the question is, why do they still get sun burned and tanned in the end? The only reasonable answer is: some of these rays must penetrate the epidermis and activate the melanin production in the basal layer. Occasional sun tanning – done with common sense – does not harm our skin too much. It is vital and can recover. But have you ever seen common sense at the beach? – I did not. The skin damage comes over time, often in many years, by changing our genes and their expression. Eventually some of our genes are so badly damaged that their proliferation signals get out of control, they mutate and transform cells into rapid growing cancer cells. In Germany we have over 3.000 deadly cases, in sunny countries (Florida, California, Australia) the death toll must be much higher.

Now you may ask where is the relation of Peeling and sun? Very easy: Our epidermis with the underlying dermis not only is a protection against temperature and moisture loss, the epidermis with its full scale layers also acts as a filter. (See above). If you remove part of these scale layers (about 27 in total) the filtering action is decreased, often down to zero. This again results in intensified gene damage and skin cancer will start much earlier.

What to do? Peeling and sun (also solarium or tanning beds) are the skin‘s worst enemies. Avoid one or the other – best avoid both. A good sun protection is a so-called sunscreen. These are silicone-based formulations with embedded minerals, usually titanium- and zinc oxide. A good (medical grade) silicone screen does not prevent sweating, but protects your skin for many hours. Aged scales can easily be removed mechanically by using the Home Care Dermaroller several times per week – without any additional product. Don Owen, a US gene expert, found out that the tiny micro needles (0.2 mm) of the Dermaroller® stimulate gene expression that results in a faster proliferation of new keratinocytes and therefore thickens the epidermis. Forget peeling!

Everything we do should be done with common sense, even the use of the Dermaroller. But my final question is: were can we buy common sense?

Kind regards

Your Dermaroller Team

Horst Liebl

The Shady Sides of Copies

The Website Links below reveal the shady sides of Medical Device Copies. Ruthless vendors and fraudulent impostors offer copies of CE-marked and FDA-approved devices. These plagiarisms originate from dubious backyard chemical and mechanical outlets that never ever were controlled by official health inspectors. This applies for hyaluronic acid (HA) as well as for needle rollers. Such copies are made from contaminated ingredients or poor materials. They are definitely not sterile when placed on the market and are offered at alluring prices, usually over the Internet. In most cases one cannot trace back the senders, and if, they already have changed their address.

Remember: Quality has its price! But if you want to pay with peanuts, do not be surprised to be served by a monkey. Don’t let them fool you! Always look out for the Original, the Genuine Dermaroller and its Trademark.

http://www.dermaroller.com

We guaranty Quality Medical-Product – MADE in GERMANY.

Price consciousness is clever – Avarice can be a deadly poison!

In the long run: Self- or Non-Professional Treatment always ends in a disaster!

Daily Mail warning

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2026700/Microneedle-Therapy-System-potentially-lethal-Chinese-women-warned.html

Microneedle warning Hong Kong

http://www.consumer.org.hk/website/ws_en/news/press_releases/p41801.html

Beware of Copies and do not play with your skin and natural beauty. If you have any questions we shall answer them to the best of our knowledge.

Kind regards

Your Dermaroller® Team in Germany

Defeat Acne Scars and End the War on Skin Aging

A report from our US affiliate

Dermaroller® Celebrates Over 800,000 Procedures Safely Performed

Carson City, Nevada-Dermaroller® is proud to introduce a recent graduate of The Dermaroller® Medical Training Program that helps to educate and train medical professionals about the many benefits and how to properly use Dermaroller® Medical Devices. Cosmetic Surgeon, Dr. Jonathan Walker is one of the first Dermaroller® trained doctors in Chandler and Scottsdale, Arizona area. Dr. Walker explains, “I added Dermaroller® to my practice because it was a perfect fit for my mission of providing minimally invasive cosmetic surgery. Dermaroller® is a superior alternative to more invasive lasers, surgery, and injectables. It also provides a more permanent solution for our patients. Instead of just covering up problems, the Dermaroller® fixes the problem. I also added it to my practice because of the cost to the patient. No longer will patients be accruing the costs of repeated injections or expensive laser treatments.”

Phillip Terrazas, Director of Sales and Marketing asked Dr Walker, “With all the micro-needling devices on the market, why did you choose Dermaroller® as the device to use with your patients?” Dr. Walker stated, “I chose Dermaroller® because it is the original micro-needling roller. It is built of precision-made components of the highest quality. Other micro-needling devices just do not compare. Dermaroller® understands the complexity of the human body and what it takes to care for it. Instead of focusing on shear sales volume, Dermaroller® instead focuses on the quality of their instruments and lets their product and results speak for themselves. They also offer a personalized training program to help me learn and achieve the best possible outcomes with my patients.”

Dr. Walker is available to provide public patient lectures and education in the Chandler or Scottsdale areas on the many benefits of Dermaroller®. To contact his office, call 888.271.8877 or visit http://www.dermarollerus.com/chandler/patient-seminar-request
or
http://www.dermarollerus.com/scottsdale/patient-seminar-request

About Dr. Walker
Dr. Jonathan Walker received his Bachelor of Science in Biology with Honors from Oklahoma Christian University and attended medical school at the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. After completing Emergency Medicine residency training, he served as Chief Resident at York Hospital in York, PA. Dr. Walker is board certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine.

About Dermaroller US
Dermaroller® US (www.dermarollerus.com) is the US branch, main supplier and educator of the non-ablative medical device, Dermaroller®. It helps treat different types of scarring including acne scars, burn scars, stretch marks, and sun damaged skin, wrinkles and fines lines. Dermaroller US is the only micro-needling company that has a medical director and a Pharm. D. on staff to answer clinical questions. It also has a dedicated staff to support, educate, and promote the legal, proper and the most efficient and ethical way to use and apply micro-needling devices. Together with its parent company Dermaroller® GmbH, the inventor of the micro-needling roller concept and the leading manufacturer and innovator of the micro-needling roller industry, Dermaroller® is trusted by thousands of doctors and their patients. Dermaroller® is the only micro-needling device that is recognized worldwide and that is CE approved, MedCert, FDA Registered, TGA Class 2a Approved, and GMP complaint.

Phillip Terrazas

Director of Sales

Dermaroller US

866-326-8412

info@dermarollerus.com

DERMAROLLER TESTIMONIALS US DOCTORS

Dear Dermaroller Friends,

If you want to know what US Doctors think about Dermaroller in medical treatment, please refer to: http://www.dermarollerus.com/testimonials

Kind Regards

Your Dermaroller Team

Dermaroller Motto for May 2011

If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact us:

http://www.dermaroller.com

About COLLAGEN

Dear friends,

just some days ago we received the following questions from one of our distributors in Asia:

Dear Mr. Horst,

I have many confusions about many collagen products on the market. How does it effect human skin and in skin disease treatment (anti-aging, scar treatment…)? Example:

-       Collagen for drinking ( product from Japan)

-       Collagen extract from fish, cow, sheep, mussels….. ( dry one or serum ) – from worldwide

-       And very special one: collagen type III, type I from Navel-string  ( line connect mother and baby when pregnant):

+ Vietname manufature: Product of Professor. Phan Toan Thang (Vietnamese) who work at Singapore University and is distributed by multi-level marketing company. Now they make so much noise on market.

+ Problem is they import china needle, korean needle and needling skin before apply above-mentioned collagens and they  promote this collagens that play key role on skin disease treatment especially acne scar, anti-aging.

+ Microneedle just has simple role is create channel for such collagen to deeply penetrate to skin.

Pls help to educate me about above-mentioned collagens on human skin and skin treatment. From my heart, I think nothing special, but I do not have knowledge to prove that. It’s realy important to emphasize Dermaroller Microneedle that play key role on skin treatment.

Thank you very much and have a nice weekend.

Best regards

Hung

Here is our reply:

Dear Mr. Hung,

I do understand your frustration and confusion. The world is full of BS (or nonsense) and all that counts is to get the money from the fooled consumer. Any collagen in the end is a protein, like an egg consists of proteins, etc. If you drink collagen, where does it go? To your digestion system and later on to toilet – this is a simple fact. Collagen for your skin structure can only be produced by skin stem cells and and other undifferentiated skin cells. Collagen is synthesized by fibroblasts – nothing else. And fibroblast proliferation is stimulated by micro needles, why and how in detail we do (still) not know in all detail.

Make a simple comparison:

Take 2 patients with severe acne scars. One drinks and swallows collagen, vitamin and naval-string derived collagen for one month or more. Then investigate his acne scars again.
Take a second patient and needle his acne scars only once with 1.5 mm Dermaroller. Then check the result after 1 month or more. Then you’ll clearly see who benefits from what.

Do you really belive this nonsense when you needle the skin and then you apply sheep, fish or cow collagen, your skin will improve? If life would be that easy, medicine could be absolete.

Life is endless learning, not only selling! If you do not know, go and study and ask for the right books and persons. Even a professor from Singapore wants to make money. He does not do any harm to people when they drink his collagen (protein) mixture, the professor only profits from fooled consumers. Therefore, there is only one rule in life to find out the truth and reality: study!

Kind regards
Horst Liebl

Vietnam welcomes HOI THAO

Vietnam welcomes HOI THAO – Dermaroller in Vietnamese language

Have you ever been to Vietnam? If not, join us on a wonderful journey to a country that still seems to be so mystical. Meet a culture of thousands of years. Come into contact with people with a glorious and also a tragic history. See people that have put the past 1000 years of colonisation, occupation and a terrible, unjustified war aside. Encounter a nation full of optimism to create its own future.

With genuine modesty I can say that I have travelled the entire world but Vietnam is something special in any respect. These people welcome you with a warm smile of true innocence that surprises you any moment, 24 hours a day. Hospitality is not the correct term, it is more: Vietnam is all smiles and graces.

Wherever we came in this world for lectures and training we always were welcome and our hosts did outstanding performances, but Vietnam topped them all. To be more precise, I report about our new Dermaroller-Representative Mr. Le Manh Hung and his charming wife Cun. Our 3 days stay was organised like a Swiss precision chronometer. Wednesday all day long we gave lectures to their staff followed by practical hands-on training on several patients with different indications.

We passed on all our skill and knowledge to them – and they really learned fast. The Medical Director, Dr. Quong, had some experience with roller-copies from Korea. Once he had used the Dermaroller for the first time he suddenly knew what is quality. Only with a mild pressure the precision Dermaroller micro needles effortless penetrated the acne scar fibrosis.

For the first time we also could demonstrate the efficacy of our new COOL MASK. Directly after medical needling Lipopetide is applied on the skin followed by the COOL MASK. It is made from pure silk soaked in Hyaluronic Acid in combination with highly effective liposomes. It cools the skin and reduces the erythema (redness) significantly. See the difference on the neck where no Cool Mask was applied.

The training was interrupted by a small lunch break with the famous Vietnamese Noodle Soup, called Bo Bun Hue.

At 7 pm we were invited for the opening ceremony of a Spa sponsored by Dermaroller-Vietnam. A real special event we experienced the first time in our life. It started with a traditional Dragon Dance.

We passed a welcoming committee of sweet girls

and then the SPA opening was followed by a parade of Vietnam’s most beautiful girls, celebrities and actresses.

A group photo for lasting memories

Early in the morning a driver waited for us, and accompanied by Mr. Hung and Dr. Quong we were heading East towards the famous Ha Long Bay. It is only 170 km away but taking in consideration the Hanoi traffic and the streets packed with about 7 million motorbikes it was a long journey of about 4 hours. In order to give you a little idea, see the traffic picture I have taken from my hotel room.

But our patience was rewarded a million times – we arrived at the Ha Long Bay. Ha Long means were the dragon came to the water (at least so I remember). With a little bit of imagination over 3000 rocky islands form the scales of a dragon’s tail. An absolute breath taking view of a nature surrounding you, that makes you speechless. Mr. Hung was so generous and chartered a big boat for about 50 people only for the four of us plus the driver and an interpreter for German/Vietnamese. The weather was fine, overcastted but with good visibility. It was just the right light to highlight the contrast between sea, rocks and sky.
Almost silently our boat floated between the rocks, a majestic view I never experienced before. The following pictures only can give you a poor impression of a unique nature surrounding us – you have to see it yourself!

Before we had a delicious lunch on board, we made a short land tour to visit a magnificent illuminated dripstone cave where nature has formed bizarre forms of limestone in the course of millions of years.

It was the same tour back and we all felt each single bone when we arrived Hanoi late in the evening. We somewhat were smashed but extremely happy, and we went to bed early with an unforgettable memory. What’s waiting for us the next day? I asked myself when I felt asleep.

Mr. Hung had organized an official Dermaroller presentation for the Vietnamese Medical Society at Hanoi’s most prestigious Hotel. He had invited 70 doctors, 105 came. The arrival of the Dermaroller Team, Michael and myself, was the talk of the town and the conference hall was far too small.

Mr Hung was an excellent translator and the presentation went very smooth.

After the speech Michael and Dr. Quong treated a patient with acne scars in public, and the audience watched the scene that was recorded by TV.

Thank you Vietnam. Thank you Mrs. And Mr. Hung. We experienced unforgettable moments, and we promise you; we shall come back one day.

Sincerely yours,
Your Dermaroller-Team
Michael & Horst

For more information, kindly contact: hung.le@dr-spiller.vn

PROGRESS BY INNOVATION

Last week Roger Bloxham, Managing Director of AestehtiCare UK , and Sem Davis, the International Sales Director of Ferndale, USA, visited our new production plant.

We have worked very hard to meet the dramatically increasing demand for Dermarollers from all over the world. So we sat down and designed a robot for a fully automatic microneedle roller assembly – a machine never existed before. It took us over one year to build the first prototype. Now we have 5 units running with a daily capacity 0f 1.500 units a day. 5 more are planned for early spring 2011. The advantages are obviously: improved quality, automatic quality control, absolute precision and – possibly the most important part: more jobs for our people.

Michael honoured Roger (right) to start the latest unit just arrived 2 days before. Then – so it seems – they celebrated that event. Just read Roger’s impressions below.

Hi Horst – I just wanted to thank you, now I have recovered from my near death experience with Jagermeister, for a fabulous visit.

You know how much effort we have put into the development of Dermaroller and so much of our message is based on the quality of the device, the manufacturing, the quality control, the people and the excellence of German engineering. We have done all of this without ever seeing  the process and knowing that it was a developing project. Basically we backed you and you backed us and this has been shown to be a really good decision. I have to say I saw a great, “cutting edge” high quality process that was very well controlled and managed. The manufacturing process uses advanced German engineering and design that leads the field, we can really use this to advance and enhance the marketing and clinical message and we should really work on this together – “vorsprung durch technik” has worked brilliantly for Audi over the years in the UK & English speaking countries and we can make something similar happen with Genuine Dermaroller, people in white coats, advanced manufacturing processes, complicated shiny machinery it can really help us sell and differentiate ourselves and of course it produces excellent and optimum quality medical devices. You have done a great job building this over a relatively short space of time, well done.

Unfortunately my drinking skills were not up to such high standards, I think I drank the least, was the most drunk and was completely poisoned from the local brew on Thursday. I’ll follow up on all the day to day stuff and the things we discussed this morning Michael.

All the best,

Roger

Roger Bloxham, Managing Director

Office : +44 (0)1937 541122

roger@aestheticare.co.uk / www.aestheticare.co.uk