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INTRODUCING THE DERMINATOR 2
CARTRIDGES, SPEED AND DEPTH
Cartridges are available with 1, 9 or 12 needles. They have a silicone spring/sleeve to
prevent blood from entering the device.
The needling speed can be slow (3 Hz), medium (5 Hz) or fast (25 Hz). The slower
speeds are rarely used, mainly to emulate a dermastamp or single needle, when very
precise treatment of very small areas are required.
The needling depth is set with a push button and can be set to 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1, 1.25,
1.5, 1.75, 2, 2.25 or 2.5 mm. Using a “trick” (falsely claiming to the machine that a 9- or
12-needle cartridge is mounted), the 1-needle cartridge will needle 1 mm deeper than
set, for a depth range from 1.25 to 3.5 mm.
This depth can cause nerve injury and is
only to be used on the rare type of scar tissue that needs such a depth, and should
only be used by a dermatologist or plastic surgeon.
NO MICROTEARING
To avoid microtearing, a very powerful motor is a necessity in order to make the
needles move in & out extremely quickly, and making the machine run on a
rechargeable battery would therefore be impractical and very expensive. Competing
(Chinese-made) devices are based on permanent makeup hardware and are much too
feeble to be used for safe dermaneedling. They do not reach the advertised depth and
they all cause more or less skin tearing.
TIMER
The Derminator
®
2 is able to count down the time required to optimally treat a skin
patch of a certain area by calculating the treatment time required based on the needling
frequency used to automatically result in the optimal prick density. All you do is set
inches or cm, input width and length of the skin area and start needling with any
variety of speeds. The machine will stop automatically when the skin has been treated
optimally. All the user needs to do is move the machine smoothly at least once over the
entire area during the allotted, calculated treatment time, which is constantly displayed
as it counts down.
