Cold Plasma Resurfacing Mask for Fractionated Skin Treatment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current skin resurfacing techniques require long recovery times and often result in inconsistent outcomes, necessitating a need for methods that reduce recovery times and provide more consistent results.
Innovation Solution
A mask with apertures is used in conjunction with a cold plasma beam applicator to selectively treat specific areas of the skin through the apertures, allowing for fractionated skin resurfacing that combines ablative and non-ablative effects, reducing recovery time while maintaining durability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If ablative skin resurfacing is used, then long lasting effects are achieved, but recovery period is prolonged
Solution Approach 1:
The treatment area is segmented into multiple discrete zones using a mask with apertures. The mask divides the skin surface into treated regions (through apertures) and untreated regions (covered by mask material), enabling fractionated treatment where only specific portions receive ablative plasma exposure while other portions remain intact for faster healing
Solution Approach 2:
Different quality treatment is applied to different areas of skin. The mask enables localized ablative treatment through apertures while protected areas receive no treatment or different treatment intensity. This creates zones of varying treatment depth and intensity across the skin surface, combining benefits of ablative and non-ablative approaches
2Loss of time
If non-ablative skin resurfacing is used, then recovery period is shortened, but treatment depth is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The mask segments the treatment into discrete apertures that deliver focused plasma energy. By concentrating energy through small aperture openings, the system achieves deeper localized treatment effects while the overall treatment area remains fractionated, allowing faster recovery compared to full-field ablative treatment
Solution Approach 2:
The fractionated treatment approach allows periodic action where treated zones heal while untreated zones remain intact. This creates a rhythm of treatment and recovery cycles across different skin regions, enabling cumulative治疗效果 with reduced overall recovery time
3Area of stationary object
If conventional skin resurfacing is used, then treatment coverage is comprehensive, but results are inconsistent
Solution Approach 1:
The mask provides precise segmentation of treatment zones through manufactured apertures with controlled size, shape, and spacing. This ensures uniform distribution of treatment across the skin surface, eliminating variability associated with manual treatment methods and achieving consistent results across different treatment sessions and patients
Solution Approach 2:
The mask allows precise control of treatment parameters including aperture diameter, aperture spacing, aperture pattern, and mask thickness. By optimizing these parameters, the system achieves consistent energy delivery through each aperture, ensuring uniform treatment depth and effect across the entire treatment area
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The method achieves shorter recovery times with consistent results by applying cold plasma only through the mask's apertures, providing localized treatment with untreated areas for faster healing.
Implementation Method 1
a cold plasma beam applicator may be used to scan a cold plasma beam over a surface of the mask
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus and method for cold plasma skin resurfacing is provided. In one aspect, a mask for use in fractionated skin resurfacing is provided. The mask includes a plurality of apertures distributed across a surface of the mask. The mask may be made of a flexible material including an adhesive surface, such that the mask may be applied to a contoured surface of a patient's skin while remaining fixed in place. The material is resistant to the effects of a cold plasma beam. In this way, a cold plasma beam applicator may be used to scan or apply a cold plasma beam over a surface of the mask, such that only the portions of a patient's skin exposed by the apertures of the mask are treated by the cold plasma beam.