ethosspa

So do you trust lawyers, politicians, businessmen, catholic priests...Doctor do not make the money you claim they make. Because there are some unscrupulous ones or uncaring ones out there, you extend that blanket statement upon all of them. It demonstrates an extremely myopic view. Lets see.. 4 years of college...4 years of medical school...at least 3 years of residency and approximately 200 to 250 K in debt...The problem is not with doctors making money...The last I checked we were in a country that became a superpower through capitalism. The problem is with certain individuals not caring about their patients as well as patients with an extremely distorted self image willing to undergo unnecessary procedures to feel like they belong. Filler injected in any areas even by the most experience physician can result in side effects such as those described here. If you have 0 tolerance, then DO NOT do the procedures. CHeck your provider and ask for references. Ask for before and afters and if you do not feel comfortable DO NOT do it. People need to take responsibility for their actions, both patients and physicians.

Krystal
Nice way to make generalizations about doctors. Some of them actually save lives. When you get any types of procedures, there is usually a risk. Especially, for elective, cosmetic, and often unnecessary ones. Sometimes, even in the most experienced hands, complications can occur. Maybe if people did their due diligence and researched the procedures and the practitioners, their vanity would not allow them to make rash decisions.

I took a look at your pictures after the third treatment. First without any topical anesthetic it can be a painful procedure. Typically I use a topical anesthetic such as lidocaine and BLT. Just with the use of the topical anesthetic it is a very tolerable procedure. I also give people who have a low tolerance for pain an oral pain medication and sedative. The second thing to be aware of is the settings they used. The higher the settings the more ablation which occurs and the more results you get. Third, looking at your pictures for the third procedure (if it was the same day) there does not appear to be a uniformity to the grid marks. Basically, the entire face should be red and the grid marks should lay next to each other. I am sorry you had a bad experience. Matrix RF has a place in facial resurfacing especially someone with darker skin, such as Fitzpatrick IV to VI. At the heart of any ablative procedure whether it is laser based or Matrix RF is the controlled wounding of the skin to allow it to heal and the scars to fill in with collagen to smooth out the skin texture. The best results are at 6 months after and evidence suggests collagen remodeling continues to 1 year. Any technology is as good as the technique. Also Matrix RF may not be aggressive enough for deepers scars which may required treatment with a CO2 laser or an modified erbium such as Cutera's Pearl Fractional.