Laser Resurfacing: Q&A

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Patients w/ Long-Term Effects of Laser Treatments - Your Experience?

How often doctors on this board experience patients coming back to them after one year out from their post laser treatment showing textural changes, fat loss, dry skin? I'm having a difficult time seeing that providers on this site have been very adament of doing jobs well done with lasers, and minimal complaints of which they do not specify. Also, because the FDA has approved these devices, unless there is an expert witness one can't sue. Hence, lasers are glorified in all research. Shame.

1 Doctor Answer | Asked by cveroleyva in Atlanta
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Long term effects after lasers are very unusual except for pigmentation

I have been working with lasers for over 30 years. Even the older very invasive non-fractionated lasers did not result in fat loss or dry skin. This included many patients treated for acne at the highest settings. However, your symptoms may have little to do with the laser but could be due to an endocrine problem. I would suggest that you see an endocrinologist. Dr. Mayl Fort Lauderdale

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thats the same answer he gave me on my questions. lasers do cause damage and not one doctor that performs the procedure will ever own up to even though they experience it first hand.
Fraxel/IPL/and other Lasers most certainly do cause Fat loss, orange peel skin, collagen and elastin breakdown, wrinkles sagging. It goes on and on. It's a horror for the victims who have had their faces and their lives ruined and all these doctors keep insisting it doesn't do this kind of damage. Well, I here to tell you that it does and sometimes the damage doesn't show up for a year or two years later. Just check out this site and others. There are hundreds of laser victims telling their sad tale. DON'T FRAXEL. It's not worth the risk. Check out my pictures. I had a very round, full face prior to fraxel. 2.5 years later all the fat has melted off my face. The holes left by the tracks are now connecting together to form hideous wrinkles. My upper lip is wrinkled, thinning and shrinking. I look like I'm 80 years old when I talk. There are hundreds of stories just like mine! Research it! Lasering your face is not worth the risk. It is dangerous despite what all these doctors are claiming. They are invested in this technology. They will never admit damage that these lasers are causing.

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