Chemical peel or Halo fractional laser treatment or other?

Its a pretty straight forward concept. Peels simply don't go very deep. Maybe 1-10% of the way into the top layer of skin. Your wrinkles exist way down in the second layer. Halo gets down to that layer, and is safe and effective. However, the Gold standard for removing wrinkles around the eyes and mouth is full ablation (Erbium:YAG lasers, CO2 lasers). However, full ablation can have very long down time and hurt a bit more.  For someone wanting 50% improvement of wrinkles around the mouth, doing 3-4 HALO treatments is the perfect solution. I hope this helps. Great question! -cr

Thank you for your question. Laser treatments are much better in terms of treating wrinkles. Halo may be an option for you, or resurfacing; it is difficult to tell without a physical assessment. On the contrary, fillers may do the trick for you. It depends on the depth of the wrinkles and the results you are looking to achieve. Be sure to consult with a reputable physician to get the best treatment options for you. Best of luck!

Lasers have really almost entirely done away with chemical peels for the treatment of wrinkles. On the whole, one can achieve far greater results with far better control utilizing a laser.
The real questions most patients need to consider when looking at one treatment over another (say different lasers) is 'What is my desired result?' and 'What is my tolerance for downtime?'. It can be a challenge to balance the two questions and in the end, more downtime usually equates to more result, faster. Certainly, more gentle treatments with lesser amounts of downtime can eventually lead to good results, however, the trade-off is often a series of procedures v one. 
Deep resurfacing with erbium, or CO2, is the gold standard for deep lines. Most patients would consider the downtime involved to be fairly extensive and the redness of the treated areas to be fairly prolonged. The results are beautiful and this is usually a one and done treatment. Not every patient is a candidate for deep resurfacing due to skin type.
Fractional lasers are basically all going to require multiple procedures stacked a couple months apart to get to a nice result. A patient's hide out time is generally much shorter and easier to conceal overall. By the time you consider multiple treatments, the costs of fractional resurfacing vs. deep can be fairly even.
And, sometimes a filler is still needed to augment the result. And, often patients should consider neuromodulators (Botox, Dysport, etc.) to help maintain the result. The answer isn't necessarily quick and easy. 
Best! 
Dr R

Deep laser resurfacing is the go to procedure to treat those deep wrinkles around the eyes and mouth. Halo will improve those areas but it will never be as dramatic of a result than laser resurfacing. There is about a 10 day downtime where you would want to hide out for a couple days. Chemical peels are nice for maintenance treatments but it will not give you the results you want. 

Hands down Halo not to be sounding biased because we have a Halo, but chemical peels go only so far. Halo is a deep, deep fractional laser with helps stimulate your own collagen. Costs vary depending on how many treatments you sign up for as we have packages with not only with halo but a combo of BBL. 

Thanks for the great question! Smokers lines around the mouth are very difficult to get rid of. There are a few treatment methods which do work. Deep peels like a phenol/crotin oil peel will get rid of the lines but you will have a 1-2 week down time. A similar deep laser treatment would also be able to get rid of those lines but has a similar 1-2 week downtime. The halo works well for treating around the eyes and has a downtime of 3-5 days. The only issue with the halo is that you might require 2-3 treatments in order to really remove a lot of the lines, especially around your mouth. I hope this helps!~Dr. Sieber

Great question. I'm not sure what exactly you mean by Level 3 peel - it sounds like a name from your doctor's office, but no chemical peel will be able to eliminate deep smokers' lines and they are not safe around the eyes. Halo laser is much better, if you only have moderate downtime (1 week or less), but it is best for getting rid of brown spots, fine lines, and crepiness. If that is the case, Halo can be combined with PDO threads and fillers to get more out of the treatment. The most difficult skin improvements to make are in deep smoker's lines and laxity. For these, the only real solution is deep, non-fractional (full field) resurfacing which is the safest and has the best results when performed with a Sciton erbium laser. There are few things in aesthetics where there is only one real solution, but for smoker's lines, that's it.

For an unbiased opinion see some one that has a HALO but can also perform fractional co2 or fully ablative lasers, as well as fillers. Sometimes a multi modality approach is needed. All the best, Dr Davin Lim