It's been 4 weeks since I had all my face and neck hair removed for the first time via flash thermolysis. It's taking some time to completely heal. I can still feel some numbness in the skin near my chin. This area is where my beard was the densest, and suffered the most skin damage from closely spaced thermal flashes. My skin is rough in this area now as the swelling has gone down. Also, as dead tissue is carried away from around each follicle, the skin has receded leaving many indentations in my skin. I'm hoping that the pitting or scarring, whatever you want to call it, goes away as the healing continues, but that may not happen. It looks like I got a high kill rate -- maybe too high which has caused excessive damage to the dermis. I go in for another clearing in just 3 weeks so there's potential for more skin damage.
The risk of permanent scarring is a good justification for doing laser first. Of course that wasn't possible for me because my facial hair is light in color.
What to do if the scarring is permanent? Ablative fractional CO2 laser skin resurfacing will rebuild the dermis and minimize, if not eliminate, the scarring.
The risk of permanent scarring is a good justification for doing laser first. Of course that wasn't possible for me because my facial hair is light in color.
What to do if the scarring is permanent? Ablative fractional CO2 laser skin resurfacing will rebuild the dermis and minimize, if not eliminate, the scarring.