Fraxel Laser: Downtime And Aftercare

Name: Fraxel Laser: Downtime And Aftercare
Uploaded: 2024-07-22T12:00:23+00:00
Duration: 32 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Short clinical transcript from Dr. Charles Mok describing expected downtime and aftercare following Fraxel/acne and photo-damage laser treatments. Key…

22 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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Short clinical transcript from Dr. Charles Mok describing expected downtime and aftercare following Fraxel/acne and photo-damage laser treatments. Key points: acne-laser redness lasts ~3 days; photo-damage two-wavelength treatments cause redness for ~3–5 days and peeling beginning around days 3–5 and lasting up to a week; patients can go out in public though skin may look uneven; topical agents are used post-procedure to speed recovery; platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is frequently applied immediately after the procedure to promote faster healing, better results, and greater comfort.

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About three days.

About three to five days.

Peeling starts around day 3 to day 5 and can last up to about a week.

Yes — PRP is frequently applied after the treatment to promote faster healing, better results, and greater comfort.

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So for the acne laser, the downtime is not that bad. It's about three days of redness. For these photo damaged one with the two wavelengths, there's peeling about day three to day five, and it's almost up to about a week. There's some, some degree of peeling. Redness is about three to five days. You can go out in public. It's not an open wound, but it looks like at first, like you had a real significant tan. And then it starts peeling, so you have some uneven skin. And we have you put topicals on afterwards to kind of speed that up. We frequently use platelet rich plasma, which we draw your blood and get the platelets out to put on the skin after the fracture. So it makes you heal faster, gives you better results, and makes you more comfortable.