I suffered with moderate acne for approximately 18 years, have mostly ice-pic scars and tried a combination of treatments to help smooth the texture of my skin, including CO2 laser, about 15 microneedling sessions with 5 TCA peels 25% and 2 glycolic peels 70% none of which have worked, I wondered if a deep phenol peel would help? I'm prepared for the downtime, I just want nice skin finally, had acne since I was 13, its the first thing I notice when I look in the mirror
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Answer: A combination of CO2 and TCA can help treat ice pick scarring.
Our office has many different treatments for scars depending on the depth of atrophy or hypertrophy. Scars require a combination approach using our HI DEF protocol which uses a combination of lasers, topical scar modulation, and RF treatments to pixelate scars, improve contour, reduce...
Peels of any kind, especially phenol-croton oil ones, are NOT useful in treating scars. The best way to get "the best scar possible" is to choose your surgeon very carefully. The one thing that does the most to produce a thin almost invisible scar is how the wound was closed. Doing things to...
Once the deep (phenol) peel has created new skin, we consider that new skin to be like a new baby's skin. We want to protect it from unwanted UV radiation as much as possible. So use pf sun block which contains zinc is your every day companion, especially when engaging in outdoor activities like...
