Medical Blepharoplasty in East Paris

How is plasma generated?

There are several medical devices currently available that exploit plasma. They consist of a very light handpiece (or electrical power source) and a tip that is brought close to the skin. Due to a potential difference between the tip and the skin, energy accumulates and plasma is created. If you touch the skin with the tip, there is no longer any potential difference, and therefore no plasma.

If you’re too far away, the energy can’t accumulate in the amount of atmosphere available, and plasma is no longer generated. This makes it a very safe tool in medicine. By maintaining a distance of around 0.5 mm between the tip of the device and the skin, the air charged with free electrons absorbs a large amount of energy, ionises and becomes plasma. It ceases to be an insulator and begins to conduct the electric current, generating the discharges.

A wide range of skin treatments can be performed: non-surgical upper blepharoplasty, lentigo simplex, seborrheic keratosis, viral warts, molluscum contagiosum, xanthelasma, etc. Our team has scientifically evaluated it in the context of medical blepharoplasty[1]. It causes a very superficial burn, which will lead to secondary retraction of the skin within a few weeks. Provided the indication is well defined, these devices can be highly effective, yet without the need for a scalpel.