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Can I Have Fraxel Restore After Using Tretinoin for Years?
asked 1 year ago by testingthewaters in Australia
Latest answer by Ronald Shelton, MD
Question viewed 543 times
Tags: candidate, tretinoin
I have been using Tretinoin (Retrieve Cream) for a couple of years. It has been beneficial but I feel that my skin is very thin now. My questions is how long should I wait (or should I not have it) before doing Fraxel Restore? I am concerned that my thin skin will cause the Fraxel Restore laser to penetrate too deeply and hence cause scarring because of it penetrating deeper than anticipated. Will the skin go back to its original thickness eventually? Any advice would be appreciated. thank you.
1 answer to Can I Have Fraxel Restore After Using Tretinoin for Years?
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Use of Tretinoin and Fraxel
Even if you wait a month after stopping Tretinoin, the lower eyelid skin is so thin that the fraxel restore might cause pinpoint bleeding but this is very very rare. You should be ok with the Fraxel but tell your doctor your concern and it is better for them to be conservative and increase the energies and densities slowly from treatment to treatment. Fraxel REpair is more aggressive and normally patients are told to stop the Tretinoin only one to two weeks before the treatment....
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