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Best Laser for Improvement of Skin Quality on Neck?
I would like type and brand recs please. Co2, fraxel, ablative fractional... Mixto vs total fx...too many choices. Help?
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Lasers Most Effective and Safe for Improving Skin Quality on the Neck
Because of the different healing qualities of the skin on the neck and chest - greater caution and less aggressive treatments must be considered than would ordinarily be applied to the face itself.
For the most significant improvement in the quality of your neck skin, a fractionated type of resurfacing could be considered. Second, you might consider a micro laser peel. Third, a very effective non-ablative treatment to consider to improve both the quality and contour of your neck skin is...
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Lasers for Neck Skin
In my experience, repeated treatments with the NDYag laser smooths and tightens the slightly loosened neck. The same is true of many other lasers.
Don't try to figure out 'the best.' Consult a plastic surgeon, dermatologist or laser specialist physician to advise you.
Lasers to tighten the neck nut do not correct the sun damage that loosened it.
So when the neck skin is discolored, lined and 'crepey', I prefer TCA peels, with 2 weeks of pre-treatment with...
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Best Laser for Improvement on the Neck
While many devices are tailored for skin tightening in the neck, the greater challenge remains how to improve the tone and texture of neck skin. Technologies that tighten the neck skin sometimes do not address issues like sun damage, discoloration, and even wrinkling and that can extend down to the chest area.
To this end, I still believe laser resurfacing has a space in treating a wide variety of issues in the skin of the nexk and uppe chest. My protocol includes...
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Neck
You do no really say what about your neck bothers you. Ablative resurfacing is risky on the neck since you could develop scarring if the practicioner is not very careful with the energy level from the laser. Non-ablative would be safer. If your have redness of your neck that bothers you the a pulsed dye laser could be used. There is a good and safe one called the Perfecta made by Candela laser corporation. Several treatment sessions are necessary and this should not be done if you are tan.
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