Introducing TNS Recovery Complex to New Mexico
By Mark E Van Wormer, MD
Medical Director, GreatSkin® Clinics of the Southwest
Quote from Dr. Van Wormer
“Apply TNS Recovery Complex directly to clean dry skin after toning, wait until it's dry and apply GreatSkin® 25% L Ascorbic acid serum, followed by GreatSkin® All-in-One Cream or Serum. There is no better skin restoration/rejuvenation system available in the world today.”
GreatSkin® is proud to introduce the flagship product of SkinMedica to New Mexico. This product is called TNS recovery Complex™ and appears on our home page as a featured product.
I selected this particular product after researching literature on various rejuvenation lines, not completely satisfied with the current dogma of skin renewal. Current skin renewal programs generally employ exfoliating ingredients like tretinoins (Retin A) and glycolics which eventually result in a thicker more vascular dermis, but the end result can be often irritating and tough to endure along the way. Redness, skin irritation, flaking, itching and peeling result as the stratum corneum is denuded. The body's natural response and defense is to thicken and vascularize the dermis, ultimately resulting in a more healthy skin tone and texture with less wrinkles. Some patients just can't endure the program in the middle.
SkinMedica's TNS Recovery Complex actually utilizes skin growth factors harvested from live tissue cultures as the medium which stimulates skin renewal and wrinkle reduction. The product works not through exfoliation, but through growth stimulation. It is, to my knowledge, the only product licensed by the FDA for distribution by physicians containing such large concentration of active human growth factors. The growth factors are Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEG-F), Transforming Growth Factor-Beta (TGF-B), Hepatocyte Growth Factor (HGF), Keratinocyte Growth Factor (KGF), and Interleukins IL3 and IL6, natural anti-inflammatory and immune modulating proteins. The product is absolutely non irritating and can be used as a growth factor on freshly resurfaced skin. The product is a serum used directly after toning on clean dry skin. The combination of the active growth factors harvested from human tissue culture listed above is marketed as "Nouricel-MD™." Skin Medica has the exclusive distribution rights to this tissue factor growth stimulation protein combination.
Double blind studies comparing placebo to the active product on one side of the face compared to the other using objective techniques to measure wrinkle depth have shown improving in this parameter as well as skin smoothness, suppleness, dyschromia (pigmentation of aging) in more than 80% of subjects studied. In my own practice, patients have seen results in as little as two weeks of therapy.
This product represents the cutting edge of bio-engineered harvested growth factors for skin renewal and stimulation. Practically speaking, I will be using this product in all laser resurfacing patients, those undergoing Intense Pulsed Light Skin Renewal therapies, those patients undergoing microdermabrasion, Erbium Yag, or chemical peeling. I would encourage the incorporation of this product into any carefully planned skin renewal program. It fits into the skin care program of virtually any patient because it causes no skin irritation or sensitivity to light.
