What are the risks associated with this procedure?
It would be hard to find a cosmetic procedure that has a better safety profile, because it is NON-invasive and healing occurs over 6-12 weeks rather than days. This inherently means it would be less traumatic from an overall point of view. There are individual variations on effectiveness due to how we handle inflammation (I believe the non-reactors:elderly, steroid users etc (anecdotal) are slower and more blunted in their response, but not worse.) Many of the recommendations on this procedure and its warnings seem based on common sense rather than any real evidence (e.g. not for breast feeding mothers.) Safety is always a concern, but I do not see any issues in my patients except the treat-to-complete now involves 2 treatments when we thought one would originally suffice.
