I will be consulting with Dr. David Rahimi next week RE Mixto laser as well as a facial plastic surgeon tomorrow who uses SmartXide Dot. To touch up a scar/blend in from scar revision. it's so wrong, I think, for me to have to get help from surgeons besides my own. But he's only offering some weak lasers that would probably do nothing for the indentation due to olive skin tone.
I'm still researching Drs in southern California who seem to be adept at co2 laser. If you read some of my recent posts, you'll know that I have gotten mixed feedback RE: skin color and co2 - some absolutely won't do co2.One said he'd do Deep Fx, but I ended up seeing a scary side of him and would never let him touch me..will keep looking.
ANYWAY i'm wondering if anyone's doctor has actually been willing ot do spot treatment only? Have heare on here that David Rahimi doesn't do spot treatment because of different colors on treated and untreated areas that would result. But honestly I think with all the hydroquinone prepping etc, it wouldn't be a big deal. If they just do that so they'll make big bucks, then shame on them.
I'm not sure anyone would just spot treat. I would not want lasers applied anywhere else on my face because I feel ok. on the scar, I would take the risk. I mean how much would that cost though? I have yet to find out.
Yeah I also had a smart xide spot treatment only on my scars and it did kinda improve the shallow scars that didn't bother me, but the deeper scars had no improvement. The deeper scars were ice pick and boxcar.
Hey Snowflake, I've had a SmartXide spot treatment for two areas on my cheeks. It cost me $150 CAD. I think it helped a scar that was just over a year old but did nothing for some of my older scars. I did not experience any adverse effects. I'm Caucasian, btw.
i've had 100% ablative co2 for my raised scars and saw no results - blah!! i've had the erbium yag laser and the fraxel restore dual done as well a few times and i would say i only had a tiny bit of success with it. i wont do laser again. i'm planning on having manual dermabrasion done on a few scars in july.