Hydrocortisone for Rosacea Bumps?

Fractional laser is an amazing and highly effective treatment in our office. We use the laser treatment to help with acne scars, large pores, fine wrinkles, tissue collagen loss, scars, sebaceous hyperplasia, active acne, and for brightening dark pigmentation. Although there are very strong...

I am not aware of long term negative consequences other than a slight tendency to be more sun-sensitive, but everyone who has had a CO2 laser should be using sunscreen to continue protecting the results that were obtained by the laser. There have been cases of delayed lightening of skin color,...

The problem you descibe is consistent with hypopigmentation, which is a sequelae of both CO2 and the erbium Lasers. The loss of pigment is usually permanent, however, you can camouflage it some what with either an Obagi peel or with a less aggressive fractional CO2 laser treatment. I would...

Melasma is known for recurrence. Chemical peel, SilkPeel and Fraxel Restore are the best options for correction, but the maintenaince program AFTER treatment is very important. Anthelios XL for sunscreen must be done daily, rain or shine, January or June. I also recommend topical vitamin C and...

Although we feel the mechanism of developing melasma is "hormonal", no one knows the exact hormone(s) responsible for causing melasma, why some women on birth control or pregnant get it, and others don't. Likewise, why do some men get it? Partial or complete removal of the uterus won't...

Ablative laser resurfacing, which removes skin and requires healing of the skin, should not be done on patients with vasculitis. Vasculitis interferes with your blood vessels ability to heal the resurfacing wound. I would consider non-ablative resurfacing. Newer fractional non-ablative...