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Is It Total Fraxel That Made My Eyelashes Fall Out?

NatGAug 19, 2011
Could Losing My Lower Eyelashes On Both Sides Be from the Center Outward Have Anything to Do with my Having a Total Fraxel? This happened right after the fraxel.

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