Post facelift patient, male, skin type 3/4, with coatse dark hair. My incison was beind the tragus so sideburn came close to ear. What is better and safer: laser (YAG, diode, etc) or electrolysis? Is it true that laser is just a permenant reduction but not a permanent removal?
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Hello, my name is Ranen and I work by Dr. Shah's office. Laser hair removal works differently with every patient, but if you haven't seen improvement with four treatments, you might want to check with your PCP. If hair doesn't reduce at all, you may want to get some blood work done and rule...
Hello, my name is Ranen and I work by Dr. Shah's office. I have some patients who don't want to be completely bare in the brazillian area, but unfortunately doing 2-3 laser hair removal treatments may reduce the amount of hair in a certain area, but cant gurantee that the results will last. It...
Laser hair removal should not cause acne. It is a completely different mechanism of acne. Your acne looks like hormonal acne which is heat sensitive so the laser is probably aggravating it, not cauing it. The solution is to fix your hormonal acne in the first place. I would suggest a .5%...