Patent ID: 9039688
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A method for cryogenically treating a target tissue to reduce or eliminate hyperdynamic wrinkles of a face of a patient, said method comprising: providing a cryogenic device having one or more tissue penetrating needle probes; advancing the one or more tissue penetrating needle probes through skin into the target tissue, the target tissue intersecting a motor nerve; providing a series of separate cooling treatments where the series of separate cooling treatments produce a treatment path along the target tissue to treat the motor nerve and to provide a continuous array of treated tissue in the face of the patient by: temporarily disrupting signal conduction from the motor nerve with the series of separate cooling treatments thereby preventing contraction of a muscle operably coupled to the motor nerve; and reducing or eliminating hyperdynamic wrinkles of a patient's face.