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Laser Skin Resurfacing- How Does It Work? |
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I didn’t know anything about acne scar laser treatment
to remove, blend, or diminish the pocks and other marks, then. It was
the 1980s, and I was not all that focused on beauty (but rather on
getting through graduate school, therapy, and three jobs); and I was
ignorant about skin care innovations. But I said to the man of the week,
a cool guy, actually, for most purposes, that I wanted to sand-paper my
face skin, so I could lesson the devastating holes…or at least so I
could fill in the open pores, the holes where acne had been.
Think of the face as being made of clay. Imagine that clay face
full of big gouges, dents, or blemishes—new and old. Envision taking a
stylus or other sculptor’s tool to drag and smear new clay into those
pits and over those scars and marks. It seems logical, right? Your new
face would be pock-free and smooth again, as it had been in
pre-adolescent days. If you think of the new techniques, surgical,
cosmetic, and other, used to remove acne marks, you might think in terms
of the sculptor’s clay and maneuvers analogy. Then again, you might
think more in terms of the face as an unfinished or marked piece of
furniture that about to get sand-papered. Not all that “imaginative” or,
rather, new, today, though. Now we have such a re-sculpting device: we
have acne scar laser treatment.
Acne scar laser treatment, also called resurfacing and also used for wrinkles,
works in a particular way. According to one plastic surgery professional, acne scar laser
treatment done by a CO2 laser or an erbium laser—which “vaporizes”
superficial damaged skin cells. This frees up the existing and healthier
collagen to get thicker and to become even healthier.
The emphasis honest practitioners of acne scar laser treatment offer,
though, is that such treatment does not “cure” or magically remove all
acne marks and blemishing. Rather, it improves the skin condition,
diminishing though not completely removing.
Other details are equally important. Depending upon type of acne scar laser treatment, be
prepared to accept the treatment as a kind of surgery. You might undergo
sedation or anesthesia of some type or degree; you can expect to be in
the outpatient treatment room for anywhere from fifteen to ninety
minutes; and you will need anywhere from three days to three weeks to
wait for the swelling to go down and the abrasions, redness, and/or
oozing to stop completely so you can resume typical skin care.
I certainly didn’t envision such a complicated process. Then again, I
didn’t come up with the idea all by myself, evidently. And besides, I am
not a doctor, nor do I play one when writing.
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