Equipment · Newport News
The equipment.
Ask a med spa what device they run and watch how vague the answer gets. Here’s ours, with receipts.
Results in this field come from three things: the plan, the hands, and the hardware. Practices talk endlessly about the first two and go quiet about the third — because “what device is that, exactly?” is a question with a checkable answer. This page is our answer. Every device below is FDA-cleared, listed with what we actually use it for, and linked to the company that makes it so you can verify anything we say about it.
Rohrer Spectrum
The multi-platform workhorse: IPL with four filter configurations, Er:YAG 2940 nm ablative resurfacing, long-pulse Nd:YAG 1064 nm for vascular work, and Q-switched Nd:YAG at 1064/532 nm for pigment and tattoo removal. One FDA-cleared platform, four distinct tools — which is why one machine appears on half our menu. Paired with Zimmer Cryo 6 cold-air cooling (−30 °C) for comfort and epidermal protection.
Used for
IPL photofacial · laser resurfacing · rosacea · spider veins · hand rejuvenation · tattoo removal · actinic keratosis
PiXel8-RF
Bipolar radiofrequency microneedling: insulated or non-insulated needle arrays to 4.0 mm, delivering fractional thermal energy into the dermis where collagen lives. FDA-cleared for electrocoagulation, hemostasis, and wrinkle treatment; its use for acne scarring is off-label, as with essentially every RF microneedling platform in the U.S. — we say so plainly on the treatment page rather than in a footnote.
Used for
Dermapen DP4
The medical-grade standard in mechanical microneedling: 16-needle sterile single-use cartridges, precision depth control to fractions of a millimeter, and an oscillation rate that keeps channels clean rather than torn. FDA-cleared (510(k) K221070, 2022) for improving the appearance of facial acne scars in Fitzpatrick skin types I–V; our broader aesthetic use beyond that indication is clinician-directed, and we’ll always tell you which category your treatment falls in.
Used for
microneedling · hair restoration (scalp protocols)
Clarius L20 HD3
An ultra-high-frequency (20 MHz) handheld ultrasound — FDA-cleared as a diagnostic imaging device, and the reason “ultrasound-guided” on our injectables page means something. High-frequency ultrasound resolves the millimeters that matter in a face: where vessels run before we inject near them, where previous filler actually sits before we add or dissolve. Most injectors work from memorized anatomy diagrams; anatomy, inconveniently, varies. We look.
Used for
injectables · facial balancing · ultrasound-guided filler dissolution
Amplifine PRP tubes
Gel-separator tubes FDA-cleared for platelet-rich plasma preparation (510(k) BK200477). A tube sounds like a trivial thing to put on an equipment page — until you learn how much of the industry preps PRP in uncleared bulk-import tubes with unverified sterility. Your blood goes back into your body; the tube it passes through is medical equipment, and we treat it that way. The full argument — and how we concentrate PRP instead of injecting the whole tube — is on the PRP page.
Used for
PRP · hair restoration · PRP combinations across microneedling and scar revision
Supporting kit, for completeness: Zimmer Cryo 6 cold-air cooling on all laser and light treatments, a dedicated centrifuge for on-site PRP processing, and a dermatoscope for lesion evaluation before anything is removed. “FDA-cleared” describes a device reviewed by the FDA for specific uses; where we use a cleared device beyond its cleared indication, the treatment page says so.
Questions
What does “FDA-cleared” actually mean?
That the manufacturer demonstrated to the FDA that the device is safe and substantially equivalent to a legally marketed device for specific stated uses. It isn’t the same as FDA approval (a higher bar used for drugs and some high-risk devices), and it doesn’t cover every possible use — which is why we tell you when a use is off-label instead of letting the word “cleared” do vague reassuring work.
Why publish this at all?
Because “medical-grade” is the most abused phrase in aesthetics, and the fix is specifics. If a practice won’t name its platform, you can’t check its clearances, its known complications, or whether the “laser” is a laser at all. Ours are named, linked, and checkable — hold us to it.
Do you get paid to feature these brands?
No. Same policy as our skincare recommendations: no affiliate links, no placement fees, no kickbacks. We bought the equipment because we wanted it in the room.
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