A bandage system lances a skin tag from a person's body and thereafter projects the wound created. The system has a base layer that is adhesively attached to the person such that the skin tag passes through an opening of the base layer. A cutter is located atop the base layer and uses a pair of blades that are squeezed together to cut the skin tag protruding through the opening. After cutting, a protective layer is adhered to the base layer such that a medicine laden absorbent pad on the protective layer overlays the opening on the base layer absorbing any blood from the wound and applying the medicine to the wound. Thereafter, the system is worn as a typical bandage.

A laser device for skin treatment includes: a laser generating unit including a diode laser for generating a pulse capable of being varied to a pulse width of 100 picoseconds (ps) to 2000 ps by a dedicated driver having a rising time of 100 ps or less and a pulse width adjustment unit for adjusting a width of the pulse generated by the diode laser, the laser generating unit configured to generate a single or a plurality of pulses; and a laser amplifying unit including a pumping lamp and a single or a plurality of amplification mediums having a rod structure for absorbing light energy from the pumping lamp, wherein, in the laser amplifying unit, a pulse supplied from the laser generating unit passes through at least one of the single or a plurality of amplification mediums a plurality of times inward from the outside and is gradually amplified.

Embodiments include devices and methods configured to fractionally resect skin and/or fat. Fractional resection is applied as a stand-alone procedure in anatomical areas that are off-limits to conventional plastic surgery due to the poor tradeoff between the visibility of the incisional scar and amount of enhancement obtained. Fractional resection is also applied as an adjunct to established plastic surgery procedures such as liposuction, and is employed to significantly reduce the length of incisions required for a particular application. The shortening of incisions has application in both the aesthetic and reconstructive realms of plastic surgery.

An apparatus for removing a hook embedded within a tissue is presented. The hook has a barb extending from a point section of the hook. The apparatus includes a clamping device configured to secure the hook. A probe is coupled to the clamping device. The probe has a tip portion configured to fit within a space between the barb and the point section of the hook to allow the hook to be removed from the tissue.

Medical devices, systems, and methods optionally treat dermatological and/or cosmetic defects, and/or a wide range of additional target tissues. Embodiments apply cooling with at least one small, tissue-penetrating probe, the probe often comprising a needle having a size suitable for inserting through an exposed surface of the skin of a patient without leaving a visible scar. Treatment may be applied along most or all of the insertable length of an elongate needle, optionally by introducing cryogenic cooling fluid into the needle lumen through a small, tightly-toleranced lumen of a fused silica fluid supply tube, with the supply tube lumen often metering the cooling fluid. Treatment temperature and/or time control may be enhanced using a simple pressure relief valve coupled to the needle lumen via a limited total exhaust volume space.

According to some embodiments, a method of treating a skin surface of a subject comprises heating a skin surface, abrading native skin tissue of a subject using a microdermabrasion device, wherein using the microdermabrasion device comprises moving the microdermabrasion device relative to the skin surface while simultaneously delivering at least one treatment fluid to the skin surface being treated and cooling the abraded skin surface.

A system and method for treating skin and areas proximate thereto, preferably using at least one of an exfoliant, a transducer operating at a frequency ranging from approximately 20 kHz to approximately 250 MHz, and/or a light source having a predominant wavelength ranging from approximately 400 nm to approximately 2,500 nm.

A skin growth excision apparatus, and methods of making and using such a skin growth excision apparatus, whereby the skin growth excision apparatus can include a base having opposing base upper and lower surfaces, an aperture element communicating between the base upper and lower surfaces, and a blade overlaying the base upper surface. The blade can be slidably engaged with the base to facilitate travel of the blade along a travel path over the aperture element, whereby the blade can excise a skin growth extending therethrough.

An electronic computing system creates a treatment plan and provides safe and accurate treatment recommendations by obtaining an input image of a face; comparing, using a pattern recognition process, one or more aspects of the input image to corresponding aspects of a plurality of reference images; obtaining, based on a result of the comparing, supplemental information associated with one or more additional characteristics of the face; and creating a treatment plan based on the input image and the additional characteristic.

The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to design a cosmetic surgical method for presenting a deeper or longer philtrum at the lip by adjusting the muscle flaps at the lips and nose. The theoretical basis of this surgical method is a “theory of labionasal muscle tension thread group” summarized from a series of studies with respect to anatomy, biomechanics and clinical surgical verification. According to this theory, the labionasal muscle tension structure is reconstructed by surgical adjustment of the position and direction of the muscle flaps, so as to produce an effect of changing the profile of the “philtrum” and to improve or remodel the “philtrum” as an aesthetic labial structure.