Dr. Babak FarzanehCEO TrueCare Cosmetic Surgery & Medical Spa

CO2 LASER SKIN TIGHTENING | for Sun Damaged Wrinkled Skin

Name: CO2 LASER SKIN TIGHTENING | for Sun Damaged Wrinkled Skin
Uploaded: 2021-03-01T22:43:37+00:00
Duration: 3 min 23 s
Channel: Dr. Babak Farzaneh
Description: A clinician-led instructional monologue describing CO2 laser skin tightening focused on the upper eyelid (but extendable to the whole face). The speaker…

1 Mar 2021 · 3 min

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A clinician-led instructional monologue describing CO2 laser skin tightening focused on the upper eyelid (but extendable to the whole face). The speaker explains the therapeutic goal—thickening and strengthening thin, sun-damaged skin to reduce relapse risk after potential skin hinge procedures—and gives detailed immediate aftercare: keep the treated area moist with ointment the rest of the day, begin washing the next day with Cetaphil using gentle circular motions (do not rub), perform care roughly every three hours, avoid getting product in the eyes, and that showers are permitted. The speaker notes the procedure is typically performed with topical numbing and causes minimal pain.

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You're gonna probably feel something, but nothing sharp like that. Okay, can you handle that? Exactly. This procedure can be done for the skin on the upper eyelid. It can be extended, obviously, throughout the whole face. But this is more of a therapeutic reason we're doing this, to get this skin to become thicker skin, more resilient, so that in case you need to do a skin hinge, we don't have to have the issue of the relapse here. Okay, can you see? Then you look up and hold the mirror up too. If you're looking and she's out of the way, you pull and you gently put it on because it helps you, you know, slide a little bit better. Then you don't anything to it for the rest of the day. You only put the ointment on to keep it moist. These wounds always heal better in a moist environment. And then afterwards, tomorrow, you can start washing it. So you wash with cetaphil soap, which you have, and then you just use essentially a baby gentle circular motion. You never want to rub on it. You don't want it to come off. You want, as the skin is healing underneath, for the little residue of the skin to come off. Have to do it every three hours. Try not to get it in your eyes, but you can take a shower, no problem. You should not have any pain because usually when I do it with numbing, just the cream, people feel, you know, hot after that. Most people don't even take towel, even when they do the full face.