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The skin of the face is privileged in its ability to heal after it has been stressed. Peel are great here. Off the face, the skin does not heal nearly as well. Peels tend to cause scaring. For this reason peels are not performed off the face. A very mild fruit acid might be safe but these agents will not improve the skin because their effects are very superficial.
Peels for the extremities give clinical improvement in sun damage if they a superficial in variety. An excellent peel, so called the "Cook" peel is the use of 70% glycolic acid gel for 2-3 minutes followed by 15% Trichloracetic acid for several minutes. Deeper peels can lead to scarring and should be avoided.
Chemical peels won't hurt moles but make sure your moles are checked by a board certified dermatologist to make sure they are normal and not pre-cancerous or cancerous. Sometimes peels and other procedures can make skin growths such as moles look slightly different afterwards and it is...
Fractional laser is an amazing and highly effective treatment in our office. We use the laser treatment to help with acne scars, large pores, fine wrinkles, tissue collagen loss, scars, sebaceous hyperplasia, active acne, and for brightening dark pigmentation. Although there are very strong...
If you do a few microdermabrasions, that should help even out the little color changes you have since you weren't available to see your derm doc for prescription creams. Also a couple of light jessner's peels would do the same thing.
Our treatments use combination therapy to improve the epidermis and dermis for most deep scars. The options available for acne scars depend on the character of your scars, in terms of topography and contour. We see atrophic and hypertrophic acne scars, as well as scars that have hypo and...
Microdermabrasion will remove the top, dry, rough skin layers and will leave your skin softer and smoother. This procedure is similar to how your skin would feel after a nice facial. Microdermabrasion will have very little to no effect at all on acne scars (even mild ones), as these scars...
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