“Still Hopeful”

I don't know about Pearl Fractional but I am a practitioner that uses the regular Pearl laser and under no circumstances do we ever perform the treatment without the guard on. That is what keeps the laser at the appropriately safe distance from the person's skin. I wonder if "removing the guard" is a common practice done by other providers. There are so many unhappy patients on here with Pearl and I find that so surprising compared to the number of positive outcomes we see in our clinic. I think that any person who reads this and has an unfavorable outcome should notify Cutera so that these unsafe practices can be looked into. I'm sorry for your experience! If the laser was making a "funny noise" the person doing your laser should have been more concerned that maybe something was wrong with it all together and not just removed the safety device so they could continue on with the treatment.