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Dragz, do you think the palomar would really contribute much to collagen remodeling? I thought it is standard knowledge that non ablative treatments are negligible if not useless for atrophic scars. ...

Doxycycline is known to cause stomach and liver issues if taken in too large quantities at once, so be careful. It also probably doesn't help with your body building up an immunity to it, either.

In response to your newest update, I suspect it may be because they are ice picks. Ice picks are hard to treat with ANY treatment, particularly because they're hard to get at. That's why isolated ice ...

Subcision does work. However, those pictures, while not Photoshopped, are misleading. The before pictures have been taken with a hard side light. The after pictures have been taken with a soft ligh...

Permanent hyperpigmentation is a pretty rare occurrence with ablative fractional lasers, but still a possibility. It was all but guaranteed in the old fully ablative CO2 days with anyone other than wh...

The hydroquinone/kojic acid is not for PIH. It's to prevent possible PERMANENT hyperpigmentation. Really, the best way to cover it up is cream-based hydrocortisone. It goes on like lotion, but it i...

I haven't asked him about excision, so I don't know. I did not have ablative laser resurfacing prior to Mixto (I had Lux 1540 instead, which is an erbium non-ablative fractional laser). I am sure th...

Those peel off. The weaker the laser was, the longer it takes to peel off.

Reconsider...lol.... We definitely want to see how your skin looks after your third laser. I'm probably going to do a second session with focal treatment on just the cheeks in January. Will this ...

No. Just...no.

He CAN do it without sedation, and he often does for certain patients. However, it'll probably be VERY painful, since he's not going to compromise the efficacy of the procedure. For instance, I hav...

I'm honestly really happy to see it's working out. I was honestly originally very uncomfortable about posting my pictures online, since I tend to be a pretty private person about personal matters, b...

Just to let you guys know, I underwent another round of Mixto/subcision two days ago on the 18th. It looks pretty much the same as before, so I won't bother wasting server space with pictures. Just le...

What do you have to say about Retin-A though. Do they even work? What kind of scarring does retin-a work on? (describe the scarring, shallow, deep, icepick) As in how deep or severe until the retin -a...

Lumps that feel weird are normal for subcision. It is HIGHLY unlikely you'll end up with abnormally raised areas.

Why come to the US to get Laviv when Europe has Recell?

Yup, my scars look best in the morning too. It's because your face is puffy due to a mass of blood in your face, and this pushes out the indented scars. I guess it's a similar thing with contracting. ...

Yeah. They do fade. Mine are very superficial. Hopefully they don't get worse, or deeper... it wouldn't make sense if they did. And as for peels and exfoliating, I haven't done peels to say. I usually...

Depending on the person, scars do fade with time. It did for my father, he had fairly deep acne scars that faded over the course of ten years. Obviously, this does not happen for everyone.

It's safe. It's not a matter of safety, it's a matter of if you don't want to be so red or not.

I'd say, in totality, my left side is like 80% better, my right is like 70%. I also think about them a lot less than I used to.

This will not do anything for scars.

For sunblock, might I also suggest "Up the Anti" by PRESCRIBEDsolutions? My particular like with this sunblock, other than it's non-greasy and very light, is that it also calms down inflamed (pin...

I forgot where I read the study, but the ablation depth for the Mixto is not as deep as the Re:pair or DeepFX, but the heat value is much higher and goes deeper than any other laser. Apparently, this ...

Okay, so as requested many moons ago, I'm posting new pictures that are not good for comparison to old pictures at all, but whatever. I did this at the end of a very long day, and the light is kind ...