Reviews you can trust, from real people like you.
How it works
- Our highly-trained Review Moderation team evaluates all reviews before they're published to ensure they're written by people like you and not a member of a doctor's office.
- This multi-step process takes up to 24 hours from review submission to publication.
- Doctors can't pay to have reviews removed or hidden.
- Reviews are only removed at the reviewer's request or if they violate our Terms of Service.
If you have questions or believe we should re-evaluate a published review, let us know.
Sort by:
*Treatment results may vary
Photos from session 1's before/after
The last post "failed to upload my photos" and didn't tell me until I had submitted the text post, so here are the pictures.
Unfortunately the "afters" are not as well photographed as the befores, making me look jaundiced and not really capturing the overall improvement in the quality of my skin, but ah well. Hopefully you can still see how the laser made most of the scars more shallow.
Unfortunately the "afters" are not as well photographed as the befores, making me look jaundiced and not really capturing the overall improvement in the quality of my skin, but ah well. Hopefully you can still see how the laser made most of the scars more shallow.
Round 2 of the CO2 laser
Had a new round of CO2 laser surgery yesterday, but here are my doctor's before/after shots from my first round.
I'm not going to document the second round quite as thoroughly given my goal with the first was to give people considering the procedure a day-by-day play of what to expect.
I'll post more about my second experience in the coming days as I recover.
I'm not going to document the second round quite as thoroughly given my goal with the first was to give people considering the procedure a day-by-day play of what to expect.
I'll post more about my second experience in the coming days as I recover.
5 months post treatment: lasting improvement in skin quality and some improvement in scar depth
It has been 5 months since my first laser treatment, and here are the results.
It's clear to me that the initial drastic reduction of the scars is attributable to the swelling caused by the laser, however I have seen some lasting reduction in the depth of my scars and a definite improvement of the overall quality of the treated skin. The redness from the treatment faded fully after the 3rd month.
My scars still bother me and are still very noticeable in dramatically lighted settings. In softer light, they are not noticeable and don't photograph, which is great. I've included some sample photos from the same wedding to show exactly this.
I was scheduled to do a follow up this month, but due to the demands of my job and a house hunt, I'll be post-poning it to September instead. In the meantime, I may try the Dermapen + some kind of filler (?) treatment that Dr. Shaw suggested to me.
It's clear to me that the initial drastic reduction of the scars is attributable to the swelling caused by the laser, however I have seen some lasting reduction in the depth of my scars and a definite improvement of the overall quality of the treated skin. The redness from the treatment faded fully after the 3rd month.
My scars still bother me and are still very noticeable in dramatically lighted settings. In softer light, they are not noticeable and don't photograph, which is great. I've included some sample photos from the same wedding to show exactly this.
I was scheduled to do a follow up this month, but due to the demands of my job and a house hunt, I'll be post-poning it to September instead. In the meantime, I may try the Dermapen + some kind of filler (?) treatment that Dr. Shaw suggested to me.
Provider Review
Board Certified Facial Plastic Surgeon
8730 Stony Point Pkwy., Richmond, Virginia