Dermatologist Shereene Idriss says there's no one right age to start laser treatment. It depends on what you're treating: discoloration, redness, or acne scars. She warns against aggressive lasers like CO2 or Fraxel for people in their early 20s who don't need that level of damage.
So there's no ideal age to start laser treatments. It really depends on you and what your biggest issue is when you take a step back. Do you have a lot of discoloration, do you look ruddy, do you have a lot of redness? Do you have texturals change from acne scarring and that's what you base it off of especially if it's bothering you. But there is absolutely such a thing as being too young. I have had a few patients in their early 20s who've already had a CO2 laser which is an ablative fraxel like where they burn your face off. And these patients did not even have textural issues before the CO2 laser. They didn't even have bad acne scarring or anything. So there is definitely something as being too young. Be careful. If somebody's pushing this on you and you're still a fetus and they're trying to convince you that you can look younger than a fetus because that's just not possible. No.
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