I am a 43 year old male and had IPL treatment for general sun damage and fine lines two days ago. Now I am noticing a patchy appearance to my beard. Is this permanent? The doctor never told me about potential hair loss to the beard area. Will my beard grow back or am I going to have a patchy beard going forward?? I bought a series of 4 but am really nervous now about going back.
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Our office has many different treatments for scars depending on the depth of atrophy or hypertrophy. Scars require a combination approach using our HI DEF protocol which uses a combination of lasers, topical scar modulation, and RF treatments to pixelate scars, improve contour, reduce...
Thank you for your question LPPP. I understand your concern.
IPL is a great treatment for facial rejuvenation. It is difficult to make an assessment without photographs. However some times dark spots can get darker before they get lighter. This can take up to 2 weeks. Prolonged discoloration...
This is a great question. There are two components to a great IPL machine: 1) is it a well-made machine and 2) how old are the flash lamps. But the most important part of a good IPL treatment is an expert operator.
1) I demoed so many machines I can hardly remember all their names...