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In my experience, redness and swelling after a medium depth TCA peel lasts from 4-8 weeks, with neocollagenesis occurring for up to a year. Although you are probably safe having IPL at 5-6 months, the question is what benefit will you obtain? A medium depth TCA peel is a reasonably aggressive resurfacing treatment, leading to measurable results which probably won't be further augmented by IPL for 18 months or so.
1 month after a medium TCA peel is enough time to start getting IPLs but you need to be using your cortisone lotion, spf, and possibly a bleaching cream. See what your doc says. Sincerely, David Hansen,MD
IPL treatment is safe once the redness, inflammation and peeling of a medium-depth TCA peel is resolved. This may take approximately four weeks.
I would wait until the redness from the peel is gone, and see what is left to treat. Your peel will continue to improve your skin for several months following this, but any pigmentary issues that remain after several months will likely stay so IPL on these areas if indicated would help.
Following a TCA peel, you will have some redness for a while. Once that is gone and IPL treatment can be done. If you do the IPL while you are still red, the redness in your skin will absorb more of the IPL light and may make it more likely to blister or have an adverse reaction the the IPL treatment.
This will depend on the condition of the skin and the amount of skin reaction. wait till skin back to normal and start very lightly
So you have an IPL burn – I am sorry for that. With appropriate treatment, this should be fine and hopefully you will not even know it is there someday. But with this, treatment must be quick – so find a board-certified dermatologist or plastic surgeon and let them get you on an appropriate tre...
You should go see a good dermatologist for advice. It does not sound to me like your problems are related the the IPL treatment.
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...
Hairs should not be plucked before IPL hair removal, but can be plucked immediately after if desired. For the IPL to work and destroy the hair permanently, the root of the hair with its high pigment concentration must be present in order to react with the light and create a reaction that in turn...
Our regimen is 4 sessions one month a part and one more session in 6-8 months if needed. Hairs go through cycle of growing and rest stages and only when they are growing, they respond to IPL or laser treatment. One month a part should get majority of the hairs at their growing stages but some...
There are many poorly trained Medispa providers doing laser hair removal. It is a safe procedure if you have lighter untanned skin and the person doing the treatment is an expert with a lot of experience.