14 DAY TRIAL // Most women are by now accustomed to going to the aesthetician to have one procedure or another done to their face for smoother, younger looking and overall more beautiful face skin. One procedure that is now gaining in popularity is dermabrasion, albeit more painful and more complicated. Below are some of the facts of this procedure, which has been, so far, guaranteed to offer the best results.
Dermabrasion is a medical procedure that implies general or twilight anesthesia, and that involves “sanding” scarred or spotted skin to allow it to re-grow healthy. An abrading device is used to remove the epidermis and the superficial epidermis, allowing the tissue underneath to re-grow.
It is widely used in the treatment of post-acne scars, to remove cicatrices from surgery, trauma or varicella and blemishes or other spots, but also to wipe out no longer wanted tattoos.
Despite the fact that dermabrasion is gaining ground as opposed to other beautification medical procedures, the myths that it also tightens the skin on the face and reduces pores have been shown to be unfounded. What the intervention does instead is offer a cleaner, healthier countenance, which makes the pain and time it requires more than worthwhile.
Speaking of which, dermabrasion is often described as a “painful medical procedure.” Because what it does is actually scrape off the outside layers of the skin on the face, which usually involves a lot of bleeding and post-surgery pain.
Of course, there are three ways to do this: the old way, in which a wired brush is used to sand the skin, the middle-way, in which a dermatome is employed, and the almost-pain-free-by-comparison method, when a laser is resorted to. As opposed to the first two, the third method implies almost no blood and considerably less pain.
As for the recovery period, this can last from ten days to anywhere near three months, which represents the time it takes for the skin to re-grow. All this while, the skin on the face will be raw, excessively red and swollen, and painful to the touch. On the bright side, this intervention does have many advantages, while also being, now, thanks to medical advances, relatively safe.