Does chemical peel after laser resurfacing help?

I would agree that chemical resurfacing after laser resurfacing would be redundant. If you have depressed, ice-pick scarring, there are other treatments that can manage what the re-surfacing procedures cannot address, including saline subcision, punch excision followed by resurfacing and the TCA Cross method... more

Ablative laser resurfacing and chemical peeling can only improve superfiical scarring. Most noticeable scar improvement requires stimulation of new collagen growth deep in the Dermis; Chemical peels and Active FX just cannot do this. The best, newest, most effective treatment for scars is called non-ablative... more

If you have recently had laser resurfacing, there usually would not be any reason to go through further resurfacing using a chemical peel. Maybe there might be a few instances where this could be entertained but it certainly isn't the routine practice.