NeoGen plasma skin regeneration
Smoother texture, more even tone and softer fine lines, treated together
- Carried out by a doctor, never a technician
- From £960, quoted at a consultation
- Back to normal from a day, depending on the setting
or call 01925 648 533
5.0 on Google Dr James Corcoran, GMC 4229209 BDS, FDSRCS, MBChB, FRCS, FRCA, PgDip, MSc (Cos Med)
Before and after, with the energy written down
One session at a medium energy.
Photographed two weeks afterwards. Model is 63.
One session at a medium energy, full face and eyes.
Photographed three months afterwards. Model is 42.
One lighter session, then a medium energy session two months later.
Photographed one month after the second. Model is 47.
Three sessions at 1.2 joules, two passes each, four weeks apart.
Courtesy of La Ross Clinic.
Three sessions at 1.2 joules, two passes each, four weeks apart.
A second patient at La Ross Clinic.
Two sessions at 0.7 joules, two passes each.
Courtesy of Body Sculpt Aesthetics.
A course of treatments. The energy was not recorded with the image.
A course of treatments. The energy was not recorded with the image.
A course of treatments. The energy was not recorded with the image.
A course of treatments. The energy was not recorded with the image.
Courtesy of Andrea Botha.
A course of treatments. The energy was not recorded with the image.
Courtesy of Dr Larisa Astrakhantseva, AreyMed.
Individual results vary. These are shown to illustrate the kind of change NeoGen can produce, not to promise a specific outcome, and they should not be read as typical. Skin, age, sun history and the energy level chosen all change what is achievable.
What can NeoGen treat?
Because the whole surface is treated at one setting, several concerns are addressed in the same appointment rather than booked one after another. That is the practical case for it if there is more than one thing you would like changed.
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Fine lines and wrinkles
The regenerative response lays down new collagen over the weeks after treatment. Fine lines soften first. Established lines change over a course, and deep static lines are not what this treats.
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Skin texture and tone
The whole face is treated at one energy, so quality lifts evenly rather than in the patches a spot treatment leaves behind. This is the change most people notice first.
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Acne scarring
Scarred tissue remodels gradually across a course of sessions. The realistic outcome is a scar that catches the light less, not a scar that has gone.
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Skin laxity and sagging
Firmness at the surface, on the lower face, neck and décolletage. It works on the skin itself, so where the laxity is structural rather than surface, Dr Corcoran will tell you so and point you elsewhere.
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Pigmentation and sun damage
The treated surface sheds and renews, which evens out the discolouration that years of sun leave at the surface. Pigment sitting deeper needs a different answer.
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Stretch marks
The handpiece works on the body as readily as the face, over a course of sessions. Newer marks that still have colour in them respond better than old silvery ones.
Whether NeoGen is the right answer for your skin is a clinical judgement, made face to face. If it is not, he will say so.
How nitrogen plasma works
The outer layer of skin is left intact to begin with and acts as a natural dressing while regeneration happens underneath. Nothing is broken and nothing bleeds. There are no needles. That is a genuinely different mechanism rather than a marketing distinction, and it is why one treatment can reach several different concerns at once instead of one at a time.
It works on the eyelid area, which a good many devices cannot go near, and on the body as readily as the face.
The figures beside this come from the NeoGen EVO patient leaflet issued by Energist, reference SD1-237 issue 3, and from published studies of nitrogen plasma skin regeneration. They describe the treatment in general. Yours is written down for you at consultation.
The machine
See NeoGen explained
Two short films from NeoGen. Dr Judy Todd and Shirley Ballas talk about the treatment, and Tamzin Outhwaite describes her own. Watch them before your consultation and bring any questions they raise.
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Shirley Ballas and NeoGen plasma technology
Dr Judy Todd and Shirley Ballas talk about the treatment.
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Tamzin Outhwaite on her skin regeneration
The actress describes her own NeoGen treatment.
NeoGen and skin changes around menopause
Menopause speeds up collagen loss. Studies led by Mark Brincat in the 1980s, summarised in later reviews, report that up to 30% of skin collagen is lost in the first five years after menopause, and a 2005 review in Climacteric linked the loss closely to oestrogen deficiency (review record). NeoGen is a collagen-stimulating treatment, designed to support collagen renewal, firmness, texture and tone across the whole face and neck.
Those are two separate facts. We have found no published trial of NeoGen in menopausal women, and the manufacturer says NeoGen is not a treatment for menopause or its hormonal causes. What Dr Corcoran can offer is his opinion: that NeoGen suits many women whose skin has changed around menopause, because it is designed to work on collagen across the whole face and neck and the other treatments can be added for what it does not cover. The NeoGen device we use won Best Treatment at the Menopause in Aesthetics Awards 2025. That recognition is for the device, not for this clinic.
What it pairs with for menopausal skin
Dr Corcoran plans the order and timing at your consultation. Read the full guide: skin changes around menopause.
Three energy levels, and how yours is chosen
A lighter session
For skin that mainly needs its quality lifting rather than its structure changed. Expect improvement in texture and tone and a reduction in fine wrinkles. Not deep lines, and not scarring.
This is the setting to ask about if you cannot disappear for a week. Lower energy treatments often need no real downtime, which is the trade: less asked of your diary, less changed in one visit. Anyone telling you a plasma treatment is a lunchtime procedure with no consequences at any setting is not being straight with you.
A medium session
The setting most of the published results were produced at, and the one most people mean when they talk about the treatment. Enough energy to prompt a genuine regenerative response across the surface, at a recovery you can plan around if you know it is coming.
Usually run as a course rather than a single visit. The results higher up this page at this level were produced over two or three sessions four weeks apart, and each of those captions says which.
A deeper session
At higher energies the treatment reaches deep wrinkles, acne scarring and pigmentation as well as everything the lighter settings do. The higher energy is concentrated on the areas that need it, with a lower setting across the rest of the face, so it still runs as a course rather than a single visit.
It is not automatically the right answer because it is the strongest. It asks the most of you in return, and Dr Corcoran will say so plainly if a lighter setting would get you where you want to be.
Which level suits you is a clinical decision, made with you at consultation and not sold to you over a phone.
NeoGen compared with plasma pen, Morpheus8 and HIFU
| What we are comparing | NeoGen plasma | Plasma pen | Morpheus8 | HIFU |
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| How the energy is delivered | Nitrogen turned into plasma, in measured pulses | Plasma arced to the skin one point at a time | Radiofrequency through fine needles | Focused ultrasound |
| Where it lands | Uniformly across the whole surface | Separated dots, one small area at a time | At a set depth below the surface | At focal points deep in the tissue |
| Is the skin broken | No. No needles, no bleeding | The surface is marked at each point | Yes, by the needles | No |
| What happens to the outer layer | Stays on as a natural dressing, then sheds | Crusts at each point | Largely spared | Untouched |
| Usually chosen for | Texture, tone, fine lines, surface laxity and pigmentation, together | Tightening one small defined area | Deeper remodelling from below | Non-surgical lifting |
| Can be used on the eyelids | Yes | Commonly used there | No | No |
| Energy level chosen per patient | Yes, 0.5 to 4.0 joules | Limited | Depth and energy both set | Depth set by the transducer |
Neither is better in the abstract, because they do different jobs. A pen treats a place on your face. NeoGen treats your skin. Morpheus8 works from below and is often the right answer where the concern is deep and structural.
What NeoGen does that none of the others do is treat the entire surface at one intensity, chosen for you, in a single pass across the face, and reach texture, tone, fine lines, surface laxity and pigmentation in the same appointment rather than one at a time. That, and the fact that it can be taken right up to the eyelid, is why it is the machine in this clinic.
The longer versions
Dr Corcoran offers NeoGen and does not offer Morpheus8 or a plasma pen, and you should read the comparison with that in mind. The posts above say the same thing at more length, and describe the alternatives as their own practitioners would.
Recovery, suitability and the risks
Worth having in beforehand
- A bland, unperfumed moisturiser or ointment, and more of it than you think you need.
- A high factor sunscreen you will actually put on, and a hat with a brim.
- Nothing exfoliating. No acids, no scrubs, no retinol, until you are told otherwise.
Often a good fit if
- You have more than one thing going on at once. Texture, tone and pigmentation together is exactly what this treatment is built for.
- You want a change in the skin itself rather than a surface effect that needs repeating every few weeks.
- You can plan your diary around a recovery, once you know honestly what that recovery is.
- You have already tried treatments that work on one concern at a time and found them piecemeal.
Tell us at consultation if
- You have a fixed date coming up. A wedding in three weeks changes the answer, and sometimes the answer is to wait.
- You are expecting one session and a finished result. That is not how a regenerative treatment works.
- You are pregnant or breastfeeding.
- You have an active skin infection, take any medication that affects healing, or have a history of scarring badly.
- Anything else about your health you are not sure is relevant. It usually is, and the list above is a prompt rather than the whole of it.
If NeoGen is not the right answer, the alternatives Dr Corcoran would actually discuss are Endolift where the concern is structural rather than surface, HIFU for non-surgical lifting, and microneedling or PRP where something gentler is enough.
A page that lists only benefits is selling to you rather than informing you. With NeoGen the outer layer of skin is left intact, which is why the recovery is gentler than treatments that leave an open surface, but it is still a real procedure with a real recovery.
What published studies report, and what you should therefore expect to hear about, is redness and swelling, scaling and peeling as the surface sheds, dryness and itching while it does, and temporary darkening of the treated skin that settles on its own. At higher energies there are also reports of the surface lifting further than intended and of healing taking longer, particularly around the edges of the face. Scarring is rare and has been reported.
What that means for your skin, and what could go wrong for you rather than for somebody else, is what the consultation is for. Dr Corcoran goes through it with you before you book, not on the day.
Why the hands matter here
Dr Corcoran spent fourteen years as a Consultant Anaesthetist. That is the training that teaches you to notice early when something is going wrong rather than after it has, and it is an unusual thing to bring to a room where energy is being delivered into somebody’s face.
He also chooses the energy level. Most of what appears on a risk list for this treatment is a function of how hard it was run, and that decision is made by the person who then carries it out.
Who carries out your treatment
BDS, FDSRCS, MBChB, FRCS, FRCA, PgDip, MSc (Cos Med)
A great deal of the lasering and injecting done in this industry is done by people who did a short course. Most clinicians qualify once. He qualified as a dentist, operated on faces and jaws in maxillofacial surgery, then went back to university and qualified again as a doctor, then in surgery, then in anaesthesia, then in cosmetic medicine. Thirty years of that was in the NHS, fourteen as a Consultant Anaesthetist and ten of those simultaneously as Clinical Director, accountable for clinical standards across departments.
There are no technicians here acting on his behalf. Your consultation, your treatment and your review are all with him.
It matters more on this treatment than on most. NeoGen is not a device with one setting and a protocol to follow. Somebody has to decide how much energy your skin should take, over how many sessions, and whether the answer today is none at all. That is a clinical judgement about your face, made by the person who will then carry it out, and it is not something a consultation with one person and a treatment with another can give you.
I wanted a machine I could take across someone’s whole face and know it was doing the same work everywhere, at an intensity I chose rather than one the device chose for me. That is what NeoGen does, and that is why it is the one I bought.
Dr James Corcoran
What patients say
I had been researching treatments for acne scarring for years. The results after my NeoGen sessions have genuinely changed how I feel about my skin. Dr Corcoran is meticulous and honest.
The consultation alone was worth its weight in gold. Dr Corcoran was completely transparent about what could and could not be achieved. That level of honesty is genuinely rare in aesthetics.
Experts using outstanding products and devices. The level of care and knowledge here is on another level to anywhere else I have been.
NeoGen questions, answered
NeoGen Plasma can improve skin texture, tone, fine lines, surface laxity and pigmentation, treating several concerns together. Whether it suits your skin, and at what intensity, is confirmed at consultation.
NeoGen at The Plasma Doctor starts from £960. The exact figure depends on the area treated and the intensity of the treatment, and you are given a precise quote at consultation.
Yes, and the extent depends on the intensity of the treatment chosen. A lighter session involves less downtime than a deeper, more intensive one, which is one reason the treatment can be adapted to what you are able to accommodate.
Usually three to six, depending on the area being treated, the condition of your skin and what you want to achieve. Sessions are spaced a few weeks apart so the skin has time to respond between them, and higher energy work needs fewer of them than lighter work. Your plan is decided at consultation rather than sold to you as a package.
Nitrogen plasma does not work by seeking out a colour in the skin, which is the mechanism that makes some lasers risky on darker tones. It heats the surface it is passed across regardless of pigment. Lower energy nitrogen plasma has been studied specifically in darker skin types and reported as effective there, with mild and short-lived side effects.
That is not the same as saying it suits every skin, and we are not going to tell you it does. Temporary darkening after treatment is a recognised effect and it matters more on some skins than others. Dr Corcoran assesses your skin type and tone at consultation and will tell you honestly if this is not your treatment.
No. A plasma pen creates small individual points of controlled thermal injury on the skin surface, treating spot by spot. NeoGen converts nitrogen gas into plasma and delivers it in measured pulses across a whole area, regenerating the full surface uniformly. The mechanisms and the results are different.
No, and we would rather be precise than blur the terms. Cold plasma refers specifically to non-thermal plasma. NeoGen uses controlled nitrogen plasma energy with a thermal effect that is central to how it regenerates the skin. If you are interested in plasma for your skin, NeoGen is what we would discuss with you.
Morpheus8 delivers radiofrequency energy into the deeper layers through fine needles, working from below the surface. NeoGen delivers nitrogen plasma in pulses uniformly across the skin surface, with the outer layer left intact initially as a natural dressing. They are different mechanisms suited to different concerns.
At The Plasma Doctor, NeoGen Plasma is delivered personally by Dr James Corcoran at our Warrington clinic.
69b Sankey Street, Warrington WA1 1SL, in the town centre and close to Sankey Street parking. Treatments run Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 10am to 8pm, by appointment only. Reception takes calls Monday to Saturday from 8.30am.
In Dr Corcoran’s opinion it suits many women whose skin has changed around menopause, because it is designed to support collagen renewal across the whole face and neck. Suitability is a clinical decision made at consultation. NeoGen treats the skin, not menopause or its symptoms.
It depends on the concern. Skin boosters such as polynucleotides, Jalupro or Profhilo can support skin quality and hydration, microneedling can refine texture, HIFU or Endolift can tighten beneath the skin, and fillers can replace lost volume. Dr Corcoran plans the order and timing at your consultation.
Not sure NeoGen is the one
Send the question over and Dr Corcoran will answer it honestly, including telling you if something else would suit you better. There is no obligation to book anything.
Ask a questionOr work through it yourself with the treatment finder.
Why have NeoGen in Warrington
Genuine NeoGen technology
The clinically validated NeoGen EVO, backed by peer reviewed evidence. Not a replica, and not a handheld pen sold under the same word. The machine matters as much as the hand using it, and both are named on this page.
Told honestly, including no
If NeoGen will not make a real difference to what is bothering you, he will say so and tell you what would. Sometimes the honest answer is that nothing is needed yet, and that is a perfectly good outcome of a consultation.
Warrington town centre
One clinic on Sankey Street, with easy access from Manchester, Liverpool, Chester and across the North West. The price is on the page rather than held back until you are sitting in front of somebody.
Find out whether NeoGen suits your skin
Your consultation is free, in person with Dr Corcoran, and carries no obligation. Nobody will chase you afterwards. If you decide against it, or decide to wait, that is a perfectly good outcome of a consultation.
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NeoGen from £960
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