A while back I had posted about my ACNE SCAR FRAXEL LASER EXPERIENCE (yes, this is my most-viewed blog post, you can dig it up as I won’t be linking to it here). I Wanted to finally give an update. Yes, It has been ONE FULL YEAR since my 3 FRAXEL LASER TREATMENTS.
BEFORE FRAXEL LASER SKIN RESURFACING: Yeah I’m just too vain. I don’t even know why I worry about such trivial things, my skin didn’t even look that bad (as you can see from my before picture below).
Never forget, there are people out there who actually have real problems. There are people out there without limbs… people who have full-body burns. Now that’s suffering!
Anytime you see someone complaining about their looks, remember to think of legitimate victims, not someone like me with literally nothing to complain about.
AFTER FRAXEL LASER RESURFACING: 3 spaced out treatments during 2017-18 $1,200 (for all 3).
I guess I’m glad I took before and after pictures. Would I do Fraxel again? NO. The reason? Despite making my skin smoother and the depressions less noticeable, it seems to have thinned my dermis and even my underlying “baby fat layer”. These are two important layers which give youth and glow to the skin.
People with a thicker dermis and more fat look younger than people with a thinner fat and dermal layers. Fraxel laser will make you look older because it inevitably thins out your skin. I guarantee it. They will tell you up and down that it doesn’t. But this has been my experience.
I really have no other way of describing this. I think that acne scar subcision would have been a much better solution to maintain the previous thickness of my skin.
Guess what? I will be getting ACNE SCAR SUBCISION along with injectable filler THIS COMING MONDAY. Oh how I wish I would have known about this option and had someone willing to give it to me before my FRAXEL LASER SURGERY. Yeah, it’s a more involved process and the technician would have had to work on each individual acne scar (and I have HUNDREDS of acne scars on my face) but the overall thickness of my dermis and fat later would have remained the same.
REMEMBER once these skin layers are diminished, it will be very, very hard to get them back. The medical spa professionals/Estheticians etc will tell you that “they will regenerate” and that “collagen synthesis will occur”. Not much. You’ll notice smoother skin but much thinner too. I don’t like this part.
P.S. I’m no expert but I AM both an RN and an Esthetician, so I’m not entirely clueless.
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