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Your face will likely be tender, pinkish and slightly swollen immediately after your microneedling treatment and you may experience minor inflammation for several days after your appointment. It would be advisable to wait at least a week or until your symptoms subside before you consider threading your facial hair. While you're at your microneedling appointment, speak to your professional about when you'd like to thread your facial hair and they will be able to tell you with greater clarity when your skin will be ready.
After microneedling, the channels made by the needles are open for 4-6 hours. During that time there is more of a risk for infection and, therefore, i would avoid threading. After 6 hours, it should be ok.
I would ask the doctor who did it or the medical director there.It's likely ok to thread now but you should ask first.
Our office has many different treatments for scars depending on the depth of atrophy or hypertrophy. Scars require a combination approach using our HI DEF protocol which uses a combination of lasers, topical scar modulation, and RF treatments to pixelate scars, improve contour, reduce...
Really hard to give you advice based upon the information provided. The depth of needles, PD and energy delivered will depend on the location of scars, the type of scars, the device used and any concomitant treatments. Your specialist will know best as they have assessed your scars. As a generic...
I have personally been performing medical microneedling for over twenty years, using both manual and automatic devices and needle numbers and lengths of all sizes and do not recall having had a reaction with the kind of significant swelling you describe. In general, even full face treatments ...