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Does Damage from IPL Continue to Reveal Itself over Years and if So Why and How to Prevent It???

I have circles and slackening and texture changes and I've read other posts from people saying it keeps getting worse! Can someone who knows for sure please tell me how to prevent this if it means correcting the underlying layers of the skin? My skin after 3 months is still often warm, as if I have a fever --- really great procedure you all are giving people - making your dollars anyway!

1 Doctor Answer | Asked by Grace8 in San Francisco, CA
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Does damage from IPL continue to reveal itself?

Done properly, treatments like this are fantastic and give great results. My office has done over 150,000 Fotofacial IPL treatments and we don't have these types of complaints because my staff is properly trained. Unfortunately many places that offer these types of services for extremely cheap prices, aren't properly trained, or they have old machines, or they have no physician who is directly supervising anything. In the hands of anyone inexperienced, treatments like this are absolutely... more

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