Used Ablative Fractional Lasers? Rate It:
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April 24, 2008
What a mistake I made
April 8, 2008
Pros:
dont know if there is any good from this
Cons:
doctor did not tell me the risks of pigmentation changes
dermatologist are manipulative liars. you can compare a dermatologist to a car salesman. i had a nice pale white skin and now its discolored with pigmentation. i regret doing the initial procedure because my main purpose on doing this treatment was to reduce my visible acne scars. i can do anything but now stay home and avoid the sun. bottom line is " WHAT AM I GOING TO DO!?!?!?!?!?!?" is this pigmentation and discoloration permanent???!!??!!? damn .... i feel like i got my dignity taken away from me. some one reply please because i am very scared and worried
November 23, 2007
Pros:
none
Cons:
Skin looked worse afterwards with more scarring on cheeks that wasn't there before. Downtime was 10 days with intense swelling for 3 days.
It has been 3 weeks since first treatment and once swelling completely healed my face looks much worse than before. I have orange peel skin everywhere and new poc marks on my cheeks that were smooth before. I did it for pigmentation from the sun and now I have little scars everywhere. I am outraged and wonder that they went too high but of course they deny and are unaccountable. I went to a dermatologist also and he has become defensive and in denial.
May 12, 2007
Pros:
None
Cons:
Very expensive, long downtime, no lasting results, redness.
I've had Erbium laser resurfacing 3 times for pitted acne scarring around my lower face and before this 10 micro-dermabrasion treatments with no results at all. In fact i would say that the scarring in some areas is actually worse than before. The first laser consultation the doctor advised i would see a 50 - 60% improvement and actually had zero. I have also got slight melasma caused from going into the sun a few weeks after resurfacing. I wouldn't really recommend this treatment to anyone as I didn't even see improvment on the smallest and flattest scars let alone the deeper ones. Over $5000 dollars wasted and a bunch of false hopes from the Cosmetic surgeons. I have been advised from the surgeon that did my face that the Fraxel laser could possibly help however after seeing some of the posts submitted here, it doesn't appear to do anything either. I will try Scultra injections next to fill out the scars and lessen the apperance as nothing else seems to work.
February 13, 2007
Pros:
see some in provment
Cons:
had to take a week off of work
FEB. 3 2007 I had co2 lazer treatment. dont know what kind he said it was a 6000 dollar treatment i payed 2500. was in formed 1 of these treatment to remove scaring. had high expections. little inprovement. now was informend it will look alot better not gone want to do a second treatment i wished doctors would have to state only the facts. sever redness and burning
January 5, 2007
Had co2 lazer procedure 4 years ago for deep rolling acne scars, noticed little if any improvement for acne scars, some decrease in hyperpigmentation. Would say not worth the money if your scars are deep
Pros:
My first fraxel treatment my skin looked wonderful. So I decided to have a second treatment and what a nightmare,after the swelling and the redness went away my skin turned this horrible color and I look like Howdy doody with alot of brown spots.