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RE: Treatment options - Microneedling with PRP, MOXI, Fraxel or Tixel (or something else??) anything but a fully ablative laser is quite useless, especially for rolling scars. The problem lies beneath the skin, I can quote a doctor as saying lasers don’t lift skin. They are for softening edg... | In forum Scar treatments | 2 years ago |
RE: Doing subcision. Should I pair it with Fractional CO2 or RF micro needling? @templescars Yeah the issue is combination treatments preclude you from suctioning. So your scars retether and you end up with really radiant skin that’s still full of rolling and boxcar scars. They’l... | In forum Scar treatments | 2 years ago |
RE: Doing subcision. Should I pair it with Fractional CO2 or RF micro needling? Neither, suction in my personal experience is the only way to get a decent result post subcision. you can move to energy devices when your subdermal fibrosis is gone, your doc just wants your money ... | In forum Scar treatments | 2 years ago |
RE: Alternative to aquaphor that doesn't cause breakouts, post-laser? There’s this stuff called neova CU3, there’s also Alastin tissue regeneration, they provide the latter after the phenol peel, pricey stuff. Both are noncomedogenic. | In forum Scar treatments | 2 years ago |
RE: Journey 2018-? Even the doc I see for prp injections in jersey has started using the monthly injections post sub suction method on other patients. Yeah got the ok to shower today as well, waiting till a bit later in... | In forum Scar treatments | 2 years ago |
RE: Journey 2018-? @sam456 looks like his 3 phenol patients on 1/18 are all members here, still waiting for my mask to come off in an Airbnb here in SD I’m a huge proponent of subcision suction, I was actually quite c... | In forum Scar treatments | 2 years ago |
What should I do next? Nothing works. @dirigo My 9th was with Rapaport in NJ, he said he was going to do Nokor and a field subcision. He did the nokor point subcisions well enough from what I can tell, approaching the scars from above ... | In forum Scar treatments | 3 years ago |
What should I do next? Nothing works. On 6/27/2022 at 1:10 PM, dirigo39 said: I actually never heard the popping noises so many people talk about when i had my 4 subcisions. I heard tugging noises--unless those tugging noi... | In forum Scar treatments | 3 years ago |
What should I do next? Nothing works. 22 hours ago, dirigo39 said: Did yours look worse after rullan? Mine did. Mine look better I *think*, never did a great job of taking photos but as reported by others ... | In forum Scar treatments | 3 years ago |
What should I do next? Nothing works. 12 minutes ago, dirigo39 said: Who do you think does a thorough sub? Rullan does IMO and I can vouch for that, he does this tumescent thing that allows him to see tethers and a... | In forum Scar treatments | 3 years ago |
What should I do next? Nothing works. 18 hours ago, ScarfromtheLionKing said: I thought Weiner also said in his video that retethering isn't a significant/common issue? Do you believe him, or the papers you've read saying that the ... | In forum Scar treatments | 3 years ago |
What should I do next? Nothing works. Dr weiner has a video explaining why subcision w/ filler is a myth, academic papers also highlight that subcision works but the rate of reattachment is very high, both of these things have reflected m... | In forum Scar treatments | 3 years ago |
Phenol Peel Update I hear you thanks so much for documenting this, it’s really huge for you to put yourself out there like this. I’m incredibly grateful to ppl like you and shei for showing the rest of us a way forward. | In forum Scar treatments | 3 years ago |
Phenol Peel Update Hey longtime lurker here @wombatstaywoke congrats on taking the phenol plunge. I think you look amazing. That said I get the sense you’re a bit disappointed with your overall result, let down ... | In forum Scar treatments | 3 years ago |