White patch (like vitiligo) 4 days after AFT, clearlift, and pixel lasers. What can be done to treat this?

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It resembled a brown, scabbed burn which I treated with neosporin until day 4 when it appeared white! Is this hypopigmentation? The lasers were performed for a huge boil in between the eyebrows shown at the bottom of the photo however the white vitiligo type spot appeared above the boil. Please advise and tell me this is NOT permanent! Thank you so much.

Jayanthy Ravindran, MS, DNB, MRCS · Answer

Hey there,Most cases of Post inflammatory hypopigmentation (white patch following any trauma, infection or laser) will have spontaneous resolution in weeks or months. But if the melanocytes in that area is completely lost, it results in permanent white patch. So, you will have to give time for it to resolve completely.
Hope this helps.

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White patch (like vitiligo) 4 days after AFT, clearlift, and pixel lasers. What can be done to treat this?

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