Should I use a home device or just book a clinic session? Here’s the honest answer no one’s giving patients (or practitioners):
Myth Spotlight:
Home kits are a waste of money and can’t do anything meaningful. Clinic treatments are always better and should replace home care entirely. That’s the lazy, fear-based BS we’ve all heard.
Spoiler: Both are true… and both are false.
Reality Check:
Let’s stop pretending this is a cage match between your £29 derma roller and a £30k clinic system. It’s not a versus situation—it’s a strategy.
The research is clear:
- Home devices (0.25–0.5mm) improve serum absorption, superficial texture, glow, and skin tone.
- Clinic treatments (1.0mm–2.5mm) target scarring, laxity, pigmentation, and collagen remodeling, but they require numbing, strict sterility, and trained hands.
Want collagen remodeling? That’s not coming from your bathroom mirror sesh. Want better skincare results and skin-barrier nudging? Home kits win all day. It’s not either/or. It’s both—if done properly.
Truth Bomb:
Here’s the no-BS protocol I recommend to patients and practitioners:
- Home kits = Maintenance
- Clinic sessions = Transformation
Pair them, don’t pit them against each other
Do This Instead:
- Educate patients to use home rollers or pens to prolong results between clinic visits—not to replace them.
- Offer bundle plans: 3 clinic sessions + home kit + guided usage = retention, compliance, and actual results.
- Be the guide, not the gatekeeper. Show them what to use, when, and why. That’s value. That’s loyalty. That’s a real treatment journey.
What I tell my patients:
Your skin’s a muscle—train it at home, but build it in the clinic.
Question to Ponder:
Are you creating long-term skin plans—or just flogging one-off treatments
with no follow-up strategy?
