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[DudleyDoRight]

Always cut to the chase and go to an unbiased source such as NIH for real information.
http://www.ncbi.nlm....les/PMC2921736/

[Nelo18]

how do i resize the pictures. i cant see the results, when i open its zoomed in

[Nelo18]

Hello all, here to update again. Thank you Steve for your good wishes.

I postponed my 2nd treatment b/c i went away for vacation for a week. I did the 2nd treatment last week. I asked about the depth of penetration into the skin, and they told me for Matrix RF it's 2400 (whatever the unit for this is. I forgot..lol), and for fraxel, its 1500. So it reaches deeper than fraxel.

2nd treatment - started from the most aggressive level, the rest was pretty much the same as the 1st treatment. Not too much pain, not bad at all. scabs were formed on day 2, started falling off on day 4, mostly gone by day 7.

I think the overall tone of my skin has improved. My complexion is brighter. For scars, i haven't really seen any great improvement yet. But my mom says it's working, that my scars are shallower. I guess i should still wait a few weeks to see actually results. I am still very hopeful. At least, it didn't get worse, and my overall tone is much better.

By the way, hydroquinone serum gave me breakouts. So they switched me to phyto+(from SkinCeuticals) for prepping, and that worked fine for me.

Feel free to ask questions guys. I'll update again in a month or so. Hopefully i'll see great results...

Good luck everybody, and Happy New Year.

why did u need to use hydroquinone to prep?

[imhermit]

• if any original posters are still frequenting this website - please provide an update.  Did the scars improve six months after the last of your 4-6 treatments?  Did the scars come back after a year or two?