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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017
Filed:
May. 01, 2015
Axia Medsciences, Llc, Tiburon, CA (US);
John H. Shadduck, Tiburon, CA (US);
Axia MedSciences, LLC, Tiburon, CA (US);
Abstract
An instrument and technique for the removal of epidermal layers in a controlled manner utilizing a hand-held instrument with a working end that (i) a vacuum aspiration system, (ii) a source for delivery of a sterile fluids or pharmacological agents to the skin; and (iii) a skin interface surface in the working end that has specially shape structure for abrading surface layers of the patient's epidermis as the working end is moved over the patient's skin while at the same time causing rapid penetration of the fluids into the skin for therapeutic purposes. Movement of the working end across the skin causes abrasion of the surface layers in a path over the patient's skin.