A new technology currently in clinical trials could soon make our “knife-free facelift” fantasies a reality.
From the Boston-based biotech company Cytrellis comes the world’s first dermal micro-coring device, an energy-free needling tool that mechanically drills out minuscule columns of skin—each less than half a millimeter in diameter—in a fractional pattern across the mid and lower face, scarlessly removing 5 to 7.5 percent of the total surface area to shrink the skin overall.