The CIT Skin Remedy

The CIT Skin Remedy

From Alternatives Newsletter Fall 2009

If you’re like most women looking for a way to improve your skin and appearance, the new non-surgical and affordable procedures on the market today are welcome options.  Alternatives: A Center for Conscious Health, is the first clinic in Omaha to offer Collagen Induction Therapy (CIT).  CIT is a simple procedure to stimulate the body's own production of collagen.  This is accomplished by causing minute injury to the dermis, which results in the rejuvenation of collagen.  Learn more about this innovative procedure . . . .

Collagen Induction Therapy an Affordable and Safe Alternative

           
If you’re like most women looking for a way to improve your skin and appearance, the new non-surgical and affordable procedures on the market today are welcome options.  Alternatives: A Center for Conscious Health, is the first clinic in Omaha to offer Collagen Induction Therapy (CIT).  CIT is a simple procedure to stimulate the body's own production of collagen.  This is accomplished by causing minute injury to the dermis, which results in the rejuvenation of collagen. 

Here’s how it works:  The skin is prepared with a topical anesthetic so there is very little or no pain involved.  The area is then treated with a sterile roller comprised of a series of fine needles, which penetrate directly into the dermis.   Each of these “micro injuries” stimulates the surrounding tissue to produce new collagen and elastin with minimal harm to the skin's protective barrier.

This procedure offers a way with which to rejuvenate and improve skin appearance and quality without the pain, downtime, risks and costs of ablative laser treatments.  It is suitable for almost all patients and has been successfully used to treat:

• Peri-oral lip wrinkles
• Stretch marks
• Abdominal laxity
• Facial and acne scarring
• Sun damage for face and chest
• Cellulite
• Hyperpigmention and Melasma
• Thin skin
• Stimulation of hair growth (premature hair loss) 

This treatment can also be used to place powerful antioxidants and other topicals directly into the cells that utilize them.  As the body is producing its own natural collagen, there is no rejection.  “The best news yet is that results last as long as the body's own collagen – five to 10 years or more,” said Donnette Smith, L.M.T., Alternatives Aesthetician.

Results can take three to nine months to fully appear as the body takes time to generate new collagen, Smith said.  “The patient, however, sees continual improvement,” she added.  Experience has shown that Collagen Induction Therapy works optimally when combined with a scientific skin-care program to restore a youthful appearance.  In addition, the same technique has proven to be very effective in minimizing acne scars and other scars by breaking up scar tissue and replacing it with new collagen.

In a 2008 German study, 480 patients in Germany and South Africa who underwent at least one CIT treatment rated their improvement of such issues as fine wrinkles, lax skin, scarring and stretch marks between 60 and 80 percent better than before the treatment.

For more information, contact Alternatives: A Center for Conscious Health at 827-9450.