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What’s All the Hype About Microcannulas?

If you are an experienced aesthetic practitioner, microcannulas live up to the hype for several reasons. We teach cannula techniques in our master’s level courses. Cannulas are one great tool that can be part of an experienced aesthetic practitioners toolbox for several reasons:

Safety – You can easily aspirate if you fear you’ve hit a blood vessel.
Less entry points – You don’t need to pierce the skin as often, which means you can get more done through each injection site to achieve better results.
Less trauma – Since you are pushing through tissue instead of piercing it, there is often reduced swelling and bruising.
Less discomfort – Since you are pushing instead of piercing, patients report less overall discomfort with the procedure.

Certain cannulas won’t be suitable in every situation, so you should match the cannula to the area being treated. Finer gauge cannulas provide more flexibility, but the flexibility makes it harder to advance through tissue. For example, we find that the Dermasculpt 27 gauge-one inch cannula can be a workhorse providing broad-brush strokes. A 30 gauge-one inch cannula can work in finer areas. You might consider a variety of cannula gauges for the following regions:

  • tear troughs/infraorbital region
  • lower face (where there tends to be more bruising): oral commissures, peri-mental and pre-jowl sulcus regions
  • preauricular and malar regions

While we really like using cannulas as part of our aesthetic toolbox, there are situations where they might not be appropriate. Use can depend on the patient. Sometimes a patient’s tissue might be hard to advance the cannula through or it might not give them the results they are trying to achieve. For example, cannulas can be difficult to use if you are treating finer lines or when doing lip shaping.  While it’s certainly possible to use a cannula, you might not be able to create the desired curves or get more superficial in the skin.

There is definitely a learning curve with cannulas, but for experienced aesthetic practitioners, they are valuable tools. Check out our master’s level courses for more information.

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I was fortunate to have the opportunity to attend both a Botulinum Toxin Type A training course and an actual “day in the office” with Jill Jones, RN,CPSN at the Atlanta Training Center. This was an invaluable learning experience and helped me to become a more confident Botulinum Toxin Type A injector and ultimately, grow my cosmetic practice. AAI instructors keep abreast of all the latest techniques and cover both the basics and advanced information on Botulinum Toxin Type A in their course, which would benefit both new and experienced injectors. I would highly recommend attending aesthetic instructional course as well as shadowing at the Atlanta Training Center.they are truly cosmetic artists!

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I have taken three courses and have been thoroughly pleased with all of them.  The basic and advanced Botulinum Toxin Type A/ Filler course I attended with Jill not only gave me all of the basics I needed to build a successful injectable practice, but gave me the confidence that I would have a support system in the rare event that I had an additional question after the training course.  The sclerotherapy course with Terri Harper was also very beneficial.  In the two years I have been practicing sclero in my practice I have had to contact Terri two times with a question and she has answered within a matter of minutes and offered additional help in the case of further issues.  I could not be happier with the training and follow up support  I receive with AAI and the talented staff I have met along the way.  I would highly recommend these classes and this fantastic group of professionals to anyone.

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