Are grid pattern marks a normal reaction after ProFractional? When will they go away? Do PicoSure and BBL help? (Photo)

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I’m 12 days after a full-face ProFractional. I had a very typical healing process and got rid of all scabs around the day 10 mark. As soon as the scabs fall off, I noticed these grid pattern marks all over my face. I’m panic about this will be permanent. Is a normal reaction to ProFractional? Any ideas about how long it will take before I get rid of this? Another thing is my doctor suggested one PicoSure treatment around day 18 and one BBL around day 25. Will this help or make things worse?

Daniel Straka, MD · Answer

These grid marks should resolve over time. Having done may profractional laser treatments, I have never seen them become permanent. I would expect that within another 2-3 weeks they should be much better if not gone.
In regards to additional laser, BBL would be fine 3-4 weeks after profractional laser. I will actually perform BBL at the same time as profracitonal laser in may people. I do not use the PicoSure laser but it is a very safe laser, escpecially for patients with darker skin tones as there is very little heat involved. Not knowing all the details of your skin and what you are treating, it's hard to make a judgement about whether the PicoSure would be helpful or necessary. I am generally pretty conservative in how I treat skin when it comes to using laser, especially for darker skin types, so I would usually at least recommend waiting until the healing is complete (ie no redness) after a profractional laser to do a second laser. That being said, each doctor has their own level of experience and comfort for certain procedures and thererfore if you trust your doc and their training background then I would trust their recommendations.

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