Costs: $75 to $200 per treatment. Some places offer package deals, offering patients one free treatment if they sign up for a package offer.
Good for: smoothing away roughness andfine lines, improving leathery, sun-damaged skin and irregular, blotchy pigmentation and minimizing brokencapillariesandage spots; also effective for cleaning out blackheads and whiteheads. Along with other doctors, David H. McDaniel, M.D., assistant professor of dermatology and plastic surgery at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Virginia Beach, Va., has found that with repeated microdermabrasion treatments,collagenproduction below the skin's surface is increased.
Reality check: Microdermabrasion exfoliates skin faster and more efficiently than any salon facial or products used at home, and penetrates the skin more deeply than a
glycolic acidpeel. But it is still a superficial approach to skin resurfacing and, according to Michael S. Bumagin, M.D., a Fort Worth plastic surgeon, has to be repeated periodically. It won't help prominentacnescars, including "icepick" scars, other deep facial indentations, severe wrinkles around the mouth or furrows in the forehead; even fine wrinkles and scars may not disappear completely. "Nor is microdermabrasion indicated to erase crow's feet," cautions Dr. Bumagin, "because the crystals can cause eye irritation if blasted too close to the eyes and delicate eyelid skin can be damaged by the machine's suction."
Good for: smoothing away roughness andfine lines, improving leathery, sun-damaged skin and irregular, blotchy pigmentation and minimizing brokencapillariesandage spots; also effective for cleaning out blackheads and whiteheads. Along with other doctors, David H. McDaniel, M.D., assistant professor of dermatology and plastic surgery at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Virginia Beach, Va., has found that with repeated microdermabrasion treatments,collagenproduction below the skin's surface is increased.
Reality check: Microdermabrasion exfoliates skin faster and more efficiently than any salon facial or products used at home, and penetrates the skin more deeply than a
glycolic acidpeel. But it is still a superficial approach to skin resurfacing and, according to Michael S. Bumagin, M.D., a Fort Worth plastic surgeon, has to be repeated periodically. It won't help prominentacnescars, including "icepick" scars, other deep facial indentations, severe wrinkles around the mouth or furrows in the forehead; even fine wrinkles and scars may not disappear completely. "Nor is microdermabrasion indicated to erase crow's feet," cautions Dr. Bumagin, "because the crystals can cause eye irritation if blasted too close to the eyes and delicate eyelid skin can be damaged by the machine's suction."
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