Dr. Teo Soleymani

Yeah. For ablative resurfacing, it's like once every five years or so on. It's pretty dramatic. And how long is the downtime? For ablative resurfacing, two weeks. Usually two weeks, you're pretty raw and sore. It's fallen out of favor in most big cities because of the downtime and the inherent risks, but it's still used in the right patient.

Yeah. For ablative resurfacing, it's like once every five years or so on. It's pretty dramatic. And how long is the downtime? For ablative resurfacing, two weeks. Usually two weeks, you're pretty raw and sore. It's fallen out of favor in most big cities because of the downtime and the inherent risks, but it's still used in the right patient.

Non-ablative resurfacing, meaning it doesn't vaporize the top layer but drills holes into the dermis and targets certain parts of the epidermis without causing burn injury, that's become much more popular because the downtime is markedly less. People can go back to work and enjoy their activities. While having pretty much the same benefits, albeit a little bit less than ablative lasers,

Non-ablative resurfacing, meaning it doesn't vaporize the top layer but drills holes into the dermis and targets certain parts of the epidermis without causing burn injury, that's become much more popular because the downtime is markedly less. People can go back to work and enjoy their activities. While having pretty much the same benefits, albeit a little bit less than ablative lasers,

Non-ablative resurfacing, meaning it doesn't vaporize the top layer but drills holes into the dermis and targets certain parts of the epidermis without causing burn injury, that's become much more popular because the downtime is markedly less. People can go back to work and enjoy their activities. While having pretty much the same benefits, albeit a little bit less than ablative lasers,

These we generally recommend annually or biannually, depending on what you're trying to target. A large Harvard study just came out that showed that non-ablative fractionated laser resurfacing, particularly with a device called Fraxel, actually cuts your skin cancer risk by 20% because it eliminates those mutations and gets rid of those cells that had been collecting the stuff.

These we generally recommend annually or biannually, depending on what you're trying to target. A large Harvard study just came out that showed that non-ablative fractionated laser resurfacing, particularly with a device called Fraxel, actually cuts your skin cancer risk by 20% because it eliminates those mutations and gets rid of those cells that had been collecting the stuff.

These we generally recommend annually or biannually, depending on what you're trying to target. A large Harvard study just came out that showed that non-ablative fractionated laser resurfacing, particularly with a device called Fraxel, actually cuts your skin cancer risk by 20% because it eliminates those mutations and gets rid of those cells that had been collecting the stuff.

Your skin looks great, so keep doing what you're doing.

Your skin looks great, so keep doing what you're doing.

Your skin looks great, so keep doing what you're doing.

Look, your skin will tell you if something's wrong. So that's the first line. Now, you talk about dermabrasion or microdermabrasion, the good old St. Ives apricot scrub that every dermatologist frowns upon. But ironically, I use myself after a heavy workout at the beach and I'm all greasy, but don't get mad at me for using that stuff. The depth is key. So

Look, your skin will tell you if something's wrong. So that's the first line. Now, you talk about dermabrasion or microdermabrasion, the good old St. Ives apricot scrub that every dermatologist frowns upon. But ironically, I use myself after a heavy workout at the beach and I'm all greasy, but don't get mad at me for using that stuff. The depth is key. So

Look, your skin will tell you if something's wrong. So that's the first line. Now, you talk about dermabrasion or microdermabrasion, the good old St. Ives apricot scrub that every dermatologist frowns upon. But ironically, I use myself after a heavy workout at the beach and I'm all greasy, but don't get mad at me for using that stuff. The depth is key. So

when we do microdermabrasion or some sort of dermabrasion, the only thing we're really scraping off is really the stratum corneum, which is the highest layer of skin cells that don't even have a nucleus. They're dead skin cells. That's all you're scraping off. Whereas lasers target through the epidermis and into the dermis, and you control for that depth.

when we do microdermabrasion or some sort of dermabrasion, the only thing we're really scraping off is really the stratum corneum, which is the highest layer of skin cells that don't even have a nucleus. They're dead skin cells. That's all you're scraping off. Whereas lasers target through the epidermis and into the dermis, and you control for that depth.

when we do microdermabrasion or some sort of dermabrasion, the only thing we're really scraping off is really the stratum corneum, which is the highest layer of skin cells that don't even have a nucleus. They're dead skin cells. That's all you're scraping off. Whereas lasers target through the epidermis and into the dermis, and you control for that depth.

And what you control for is the amount of heat energy delivered to that depth to target a certain thing. So In theory, what you describe in terms of dermabrasion is the same premise the old school ablative lasers do. They just fry everything off and you grow new skin. And in frying everything off, it fries off sun damage, wrinkles, precancers, and skin cancers.

And what you control for is the amount of heat energy delivered to that depth to target a certain thing. So In theory, what you describe in terms of dermabrasion is the same premise the old school ablative lasers do. They just fry everything off and you grow new skin. And in frying everything off, it fries off sun damage, wrinkles, precancers, and skin cancers.

And what you control for is the amount of heat energy delivered to that depth to target a certain thing. So In theory, what you describe in terms of dermabrasion is the same premise the old school ablative lasers do. They just fry everything off and you grow new skin. And in frying everything off, it fries off sun damage, wrinkles, precancers, and skin cancers.