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American Academy of Micropigmentation March Newsletter Blast
Dry Needling (MCA)
March 2009
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Greetings!
Many of you have enjoyed doing dry needling for scars and wrinkles over the years. In fact, baby boomers are looking to us more and more as time takes its toll on beauty and wrinkles start appearing almost overnight.
I have personally been training professionals to do these procedures since 1993 and many of you have been my students. The Academy has published a statement on Dry Needling or as many of you know, MCA which stands for Multi-trepannic Collagen Actuation. We hope this helps you if you live in a State where regulatory agencies need clarification of this procedure and its relationship to permanent makeup. If you have a personal interest in learning dry needling for scars and
wrinkles and even acne, take a look at the youtube.com video: Dry NeedlingIf you are not an Academy member, you are missing out. Call me, Kristanne, toll free at 800/441-2515 to join or renew today. The Academy will offer links to your website for a yearly fee of $50
when you are a member and are trained to do MCA (dry needling). You can also register online: Click hereRelax and enjoy reading the statement below and remember, you can find it on the Academy website. Warm regards, Kristanne Matzek, PhD, Executive Director Linda H Dixon MD, President Chip Zwerling MD, Chairman of the Board |
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Academy Statement: Dry Needling
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Permanent Makeup, Micropigmentation and Cosmetic Tattooing are used
synonymously in this statement. MCA: Multitrepannic Collagen Actuation,
derived from the Greek word, trypanon, to bore.
1. Dry Needling (MCA) has been practiced by micropigmentation
professionals since the late 1980's. Formal training by Kristanne
Matzek, PhD, began in 1993 and continues to the present, in conjunction
with permanent makeup training.
2. Dry needling (MCA) is a cosmetic, not medical, service to
temporarily improve the appearance of wrinkles and scars, with or
without camouflage pigments being implanted. We do not consider a wrinkle a disease. We do not consider scars a disease but rather a result of injury.
3. The equipment, techniques and hygiene standards used to do these
cosmetic procedures are the same as those to do permanent makeup or
tattooing.
4. The Academy acknowledges that the term "dry needling" has been
utilized as an acupuncture term and we are not trying to draw a
comparison with acupuncture at all. The treatment does not involve
acupuncture.
5. The Academy believes professionals trained in permanent makeup, also
known as micropigmentation, meet the standards required to perform this
cosmetic procedure. The mission of the Academy is to protect the
public, the profession and the professional. As such, this involves
the use of the same sterile instruments and needles used in tattooing
and permanent makeup. There are no reported adverse events associated
with this procedure.
6. The Academy feels MCA is an advanced technique, as is camouflage, and therefore specialized training is required.
7. The Academy does not believe MCA or dry needling as described herein to be the practice of medicine.
Wrinkles and scars are not classified as a disease, therefore the
cosmetic treatment of them would not constitute a medical treatment.
MCA is essentially no more invasive or damaging than the use of
electrolysis and/or microdermabrasion. These similar methods have been
employed at spas and beauty salons for decades.
9. When done in the context of tattooing or permanent makeup, with the
same equipment and safeguards involved, and appropriate training to
yield reasonable and effective results, dry needling or MCA* is a form
of tattooing. The Academy has recognized advanced training in dry
needling (MCA) at workshops by qualified instructors.
10. Reference: A published account of dry needling (MCA) to stimulate
collagen in the textbook Micropigmentation: State of the Art. 2nd
Edition. On page 177. Copyright 1993. Library of Congress Number
93-061357, Page 177. Author: Charles Zwerling, MD, Founder and
Chairman of the Board of the American Academy of Micropigmentation.
Coauthors: Annette C Walker and Norman F Goldstein.
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Contact Information
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phone: 800/441-2515 Dr. Matzek or 888/664-9990 Dr. Dixon
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