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The lower eyelids are prone to bruising because there are numerous blood vessels in that areas and the tissues ars quite loose, not providing much support to the blood vessels.

Most likely, the bruising that you have has improved a little, compared to what it was originally.

To speed up the resoluton of the bruises you may want to ask your treating Dr if he/she as an Pulsed Dye Laser. One or two treatments with the PDL would considerably speed up the recovery

Always make sure that you are being treated by  anexperienced, Board Certrified Dermatologist or Plastic Surgeon.

For many years, until the 1980-s, Traditional Dermabrasion (wire brush, etc) was used to treat acne scars and was very effective, but quite traumatic.

With the advent of the Traditional Laser Resurfacing technique, Dermabrasion has almost been abandoned.

Traditional Laser Resurfacing is still used by Dermatologists and Plastic Surgeons and, depending on the depth of the scars, one or two treatments can be very effective, However, some deep boxcar scars will not respond and have to be teated by punch elevation. Also,  rolling scars are best treated by subcision. Deep Ice Pick scars respond very well to CROS (Chemical Reduction Of  Scars).

For the past  8 years or so, Fractional Laser Resurfacing has become very popular, because it is less traumatic to the patient and requires less downtime. Several treatments are necessary to get close to 80% improvement, if combined with Subcision and CROS.

Make sure you are being treated by an experienced, Board Certified Dermatologist or Plastic Surgeon.

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Common situation.

During Laser resurfacing, the Epidermal layer  is completely removed (and some superficial Dermis)

The recovery of the Epidermis comes from the oil glands which start dividing much more rapidly to provide epidermal cells that glide over the wound to restore the epidermal layer.

This may take 7-9 days, sometimes longer.

Once the epidermal layer is reconstituted, the oil glands are supposed to slow down the pace of their reproduction, but often this happens very slowly (sometimes weeks). As a result, more oil is produced after Laser Rersurfacing than before. Thus, more pustules (pimples.). However, in my experience, often these pustules are shallow and don't leave scars.

What to do:

Take Doxycycline capsules and/or Nicotinamide, to prevent (to some degree) formation of new pustules.There is a possibility that Nicotinamide may also slow down the production of oil.

Discontinue the  application of greasy  ointments that you used after the resurfacing and use oil free moisturizers.

Massage low concentrations of Benzoyl Peroxide and Clindamycin into your face once or twice daily as tolerated.

Usually, arter a few weeks, this problem  stops