Patent ID: 7947037

Claim:
A procedure for improving the appearance of skin tissue of a patient by removing lesions, comprising the steps: A. providing: (a) a handpiece and an electrode comprising an elongated first member having a proximal first end mounted in the handpiece and a distal second end being the active end of the electrode, (b) the second end being approximately at right angles to the first end and being bare and configured to form a flat blunt end; B. providing a radio-frequency generating instrument for supplying radio-frequency currents in the megacycle range to the electrode when activated; C. applying the flat blunt end of the electrode to the patient's skin tissue to be treated and continuously moving the electrode up and down in and out of contact with the skin surface such that radio-frequency currents are intermittently applied to the patient's skin by the electrode's active end while the radio-frequency instrument is activated to remove surface layers of the lesion being treated.