about to finish 8 months of accuntane in late january and am now looking into scar treatment. what will work for my scars and what won't (e.g. lasers, subcision, tca)? i'm based in california and plan to get them treated ASAP maybe summer if i have to travel out of state. also recommend best doctors too! 🙂
They look pretty superficial to me, so that makes me wonder if something easy like just a few treatments of ablative fractional laser or a few treatments of professionally administered microneedling + PRP might be interesting.
Learn about your options and find a good person to help you out when you're ready. Don't rush into anything.
They look pretty superficial to me, so that makes me wonder if something easy like just a few treatments of ablative fractional laser or a few treatments of professionally administered microneedling + PRP might be interesting.
Learn about your options and find a good person to help you out when you're ready. Don't rush into anything.
thanks dan! i was told by an aesthetic derm clinic in SF that i should try microneedling + PRP, but i was kinda hesitant since it's $1.2-1.5K/session and didn't know if it would be right for my scars. i have some other questions:
1) by ablative fractional, do you mean CO2?
2) if i were to do both ablative fractional + microneedling&PRP, which one should i go for first (heard microneedling is the final step of resurfacing typically)? how many sessions do you estimate for each?
3) do you think i should try the two scar treatments first OR try to schedule an appointment with taylor/rullan to see if that works? i suppose do i need any manual methods (especially for my forehead/ear between my eyes as those scars both me the most and don't seem as superficial)
1) An ablative laser like an Er:YAG or CO2 that completely ablates the skin.
2) They are essentially the same thing. They both produce wounds on the skin in a gridlike pattern. Just from the before and afters I've seen in clinical studies, I'd probably personally go with the microneedling + PRP, but I don't feel really strongly about it. You have do do either of them a bunch of times, like 6 for microneedling based on the studies I've read, or 3 for laser. Yeah it gets really expensive.
3) I think you should make sure you have no active acne first. Then, educate yourself a lot about all of the options. And only once you have a good feeling that you are top of everything, then make an appointment and stay your own advocate the entire way through. Don't let anyone else take over. You stay in charge. And don't start with anything until you feel you are in really good hands and have seen lots of before and afters.