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How Many Treatments is the Limit?
asked 1 year ago by icebear77 in US
Latest answer by Ronald Shelton, MD
Question viewed 175 times
Tags: frequency, treatment
I've just done 4 treatments of fraxel restore,spread about 2 months intervals,a little effect to my acne scars.I wanna to be continue,can I do fraxel restore more than 10 treatments?or there is a limit?
2 answers to How Many Treatments is the Limit?
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Fraxel Restore can be done without a finite limit
Two months is unnecessarily too long a wait in between Fraxel Resotre treatments unless your schedule does not permit otherwise. I find that every three to four weeks, latest, is the best for the most aggressive settings on a Fraxel Restore laser for acne scarring. I encourage my acne scar patients to have at least six treatments in one session. If their acne scarring is very severe, then we can continue, but if their scarring is moderate and we see a lot of success after the...
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Fraxel sessions
I do not believe that there is a limit to the number of Fraxel treatments one can receive. With that said, I generally will not do more than six sessions in a row. At which point, I insist that the patient wait about three to six months for collagen remodeling to take place. At the six month mark, a patient can choose to undergeo another series of 6 sessions, each done 2-4 weeks apart. In the original trials of the Fraxel laser which I conducted in 2002-2003, we conducted a study where...
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Cameron Rokhsar, MD
Manhattan Dermatologist
Manhattan Dermatologist