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• Posted to Is Fraxel re:pair different from fraxel laser? on 31 May 2011

  Hi Doc. I had a beard to scalp hair transplant that left me with 2500 pin point ice pick scars that are genuine 1/25 inch cylinders, not the traditional ice cream cones all over my face where beard should be, except moustache. They're pretty tiny, they look more like enlarged pores, but I want to get rid of the pink center and had a V Beam to help the coloration a week ago. It's only been a couple weeks since the transplant procedure and a few days since the V beam, and the scars seem to get smaller every day--but it has been recommended I do a fraxel repair procedure to restore my skin to smoothness I enjoyed prior to this hair restoration procedure.
  
  Since the scars are the size of large pores, really pinpoints, I wonder if some other less invasive procedure would suffice? I have heard of using acid to burn the top of the scar, so that healthy flesh forms around it, but those procedures are usually reserved for shallow, rather than deep scars.
  
  On the other hand, the fraxel repair would have other side benefits, as even the V Beam seems to have tightened up my skin somewhat, and the Fraxel repair does have that "side effect".
  
  My thinking is, wait until completely healed in a few weeks, take a relook at the scars to see just how minimal, and do a less invasive Fraxel repair, with nerve block and numbing cream, with all the goo's and oatmeal and vinegar water in large supply to survive the 7-10 day effort.
  
  I am just using common sense, but, hey, these are relatively new procedures, my hair transplant itself quasi experimental, and I am open minded.
  
  What do you think of waiting, and then opting for the acid related procedure, then Fraxel repair if necessary? I have 65 year old skin, and want to look a little more Tom Cruise and a bit less than Richard Boone.