NEW KID ON THE BLOCK

The next phase of skin regeneration is here. Meet Jovena.

We all know that multi-modality devices are the key to enhanced efficiency and profitability in clinic, but these platforms can hold your aesthetic practice back if they don’t allow you to offer patients the most advanced technologies available. Jovena has just landed on the UK market from Italy, and this cutting-edge device is making even esteemed aesthetic doctors sit up and take notice. Billed as a bio-regenerative platform, Jovena combines two patented modalities - Fractional Plasma and Facestim (powered by RF DiatermoContraction) - in a single device to provide a unique approach to skin regeneration.

These two breakthrough technologies allow you to address all aspects of skin rejuvenation like never before. Fractional Plasma performs minimally invasive microsurgery and skin resurfacing, while Facestim, a truly unique modality described as an intense facial workout, reaches the deeper dermal layers and muscles to tighten lax skin, restore volume where it’s been lost and tone facial muscles. It works using the bQUAD applicator (one of four on the device), which has a patented reticular geometry for optimised and homogenous heat diffusion, and two bipolar hemispherical electrodes. The handpiece channels Jovena’s proprietary RF diathermic pulse to promote tightening, firming and toning into the deeper dermal layers and facial muscles. Facestim is an excellent way to give patients a healthier, naturally younger-looking face in a comfortable and non-invasive way.

A Facestim treatment provides visible lifting and elevation of the face and minimises wrinkles without needles. All muscle fibres and skin fibres are activated at the same time, increasing collagen and elastin to counteract the signs of ageing in a comfortable, 20-minute session. Plus, there’s absolutely no downtime.

The remaining handpieces -plasmaROLL, plasmaTIP and plasmaPRO - are all used for fractional plasma treatments to achieve epidermal resurfacing. The range of handpieces allows practitioners to perform plasma treatments on different face and body areas at varying depths, depending on patients’ needs. Concerns that can be treated include active acne, scars, wrinkles, skin laxity, and minimally invasive microsurgery such as plasma-based blepharoplasty and benign lesion removal, with minimal downtime.

• plasmaROLL is a gentle fractional plasma applicator that targets the superficial layers of the skin to optimise epidermal cell renewal and is ideal for large areas on the body and neck. The applicator is a disposable roll made with a dense matrix of micro holes to ensure the plasma energy is delivered at a fixed distance from the skin to diminish the risk of unwanted side effects.

• plasmaTIP provides precise delivery of fractional plasma to treat common skin and ageing issues and is ideal for patients who want effective results with minimal downtime. The patented handpiece features an encapsulated, disposable needle tip for maximum control of the plasma energy shot. The surrounding glass acts as to keep a fixed distance from the skin and ensures constant ionisation. Practitioners can choose from two modality techniques: spot and linear.

• plasmaPRO creates controlled damage from the epidermis with tailored spots in either ablative or non-ablative modes, while the DAC modality also allows practitioners to select spot size — super-thin, medium or medium-wide. There is also an innovative spray program to target medium-sized areas with high sublimation but limited damage. This is the applicator used for periorbital treatments (blefaroplasma) and benign lesion removal.

Dr Rita Rakus was the first to introduce Jovena into clinic in the UK. She comments: “We introduced Jovena into the clinic in November 2022, and have been incredibly impressed with this revolutionary technology. Facestim provides visible lifting from the first treatment without downtime or consumable costs and is perfect for my patients who are increasingly wanting preventative and corrective treatments with a natural result and without downtime.

It is a wonderful alternative to dermal fillers for their 20-30 year journey as a patient. We have also recently launched our PlasmaZome treatment using Jovena’s plasmaROLL technology in combination with EXO|E plant-based exosomes. This offers a nodowntime treatment to stimulate collagen production while gently resurfacing the skin, which is leaving our patients delighted.”

Jovena treats:

• Dermatochalasis

• Xanthelasma

• Acne (including cystic acne)

• Lentigo

• Fibroma

• Verruca

• Facial skin laxity

• Skin wrinkles

• Brow, temple and forehead asymmetries

• Nasolabial folds, jowls and marionette lines

• Festoons

Brera Medical Technologies is based in Italy. The company develops and manufactures medical devices for the professional and physical medicine and rehabilitation markets. After three generations and 30 years of know-how, Brera is recognised as a pioneer and leader in the worldwide medical aesthetic and physiotherapy, combining traditional Italian creativity and intuition with advanced technologies to meet the needs of the fields it serves. Brera’s other aesthetic devices include Plasmage (included in Jovena), Imperium MED 400 for body contouring and cellulite treatment and Skin Master Plus for skin health and rejuvenation treatments. In the UK, the manufacturer has partnered with

Aesthetic Medical Partnership (AMP), a distributor founded by well-known, highly respected aesthetic-industry professionals, Martyn Roe and Paul Simmonds.

For more information visit https://amp-uk.co.uk/