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How Do I Get Rid of a Keloid on My Nose Piercing?
The best way to get rid of a keloid on your nose piercing is by reducing the inflammation that is responsible for forming them. To accomplish this, we can inject steroids like Kenalog or 5-FU into the keloid, which will reduce its size over time. Some people tend to form ke...
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Is Laser Resurfacing Painful?
Most laser resurfacing is not painful, but it depends on the type of laser used. When I do a full CO₂ resurfacing, where we remove 100 percent of the skin to give you that even skin texture that you want, the process is not painful.However, if we do fractionated CO₂ or YAG laser...
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Can You Fill Acne Scars With Fillers?
The success of using filler on scars depends on the depth of the scars, your skin type, and how well your skin takes to filler. Sometimes it's useful to do a subcision, where we break the scar from the deeper structures and then use filler to make it flush with the skin.Is...
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Do Hypertrophic Scars Go Away?
Technically, no scars actually go away, they just become finer and thinner and less noticeable with time and with treatment.Hypertrophic scars are different from regular scars. Instead of being flat, they are thick and raised within the confines of the original scar. If this gro...
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