NeoGen, CO2, needling, and plasma pens

People arrive at Emmanuel Hall with a screenshot and three names that are not the same thing. If you are weighing NeoGen against a CO2 laser, needling, or a plasma pen before you drive across Buckinghamshire, this is how I say it, in the room.

CO2 laser

CO2 can take layers of skin off. It has a long record for deeper lines and some scars, and a recovery to match. NeoGen is nitrogen plasma. It is not ablative in that way. The heat still has to be respected, and I still look at your skin type, any pigment, and whether you have a tan, before I say yes. If what you need is a deep scar revised, CO2 may be the better tool and I will say so. If what you want is renewal, including eyelids, without that level of ablation, NeoGen is why I opened this clinic.

Needling and Cell Story

Classic microneedling uses steel needles to make tiny channels. Cell Story, which I do here, uses spicules instead. No steel needles, and no numbing as a matter of course. One session is £240, or £800 for four. It is for texture, a fresher surface, and the weeks you still need to be seen. If the lid or the jaw is what you actually mind, it will feel too gentle. Buying more of them will not turn it into NeoGen.

Plasma pens

A plasma pen, sometimes called a fibroblast pen, dots the skin with a different kind of arc. It is not NeoGen, the downtime is not the same, and the risk of little marks is different. If you have had one, tell me before we book. I need to know how your skin behaved, and we need space between that and anything I do.

Dermalux

Dermalux is the LED lamp. One session with me is £50. It is light, for calm, spots, and the weeks between bigger treatments. It will not tighten a lid or a neck. I use it a lot. I just will not sell it to you as if it were plasma.