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“Skin Bleaching” Medical Surgery Basic Procedure

Before a chemical peel, the doctor may recommend that the face be “pre-treated” with a special exfoliating cleanser, with retinoic acid, or with alpha-hydroxy acids so that the peel procedure can be performed on a more even skin surface. Just before the peel, the doctor may ask the patient to wash his or her face thoroughly. Then he or she will clean the patient’s face extensively with alcohol oracetone, rubbing the superficial oil from the skin.

Chemical peels do sting! The discomfort usually lasts only a few minutes. But these are serious medical procedures. In the case of medium and deep peels, local anesthesia is usually administered. Sometimes in the case of deep peels, tape is wrapped around the face for 24 to 48 hours following the procedure. The patient walks out of the doctor’s office looking like a mummy! When the tape is removed the whole face is swollen, and the eyes may be so puffy that they can’t be opened for some time. This swelling may last a few days.

The whole face or particular areas can be chemically treated. If the doctor and patient have chosen to treat only segmented areas, be aware that this can cause a demarcation line or difference in pigment and texture of the skin. A person might show white circles around their eyes or mouth after a chemical peel around those areas.

“Skin Bleaching” Medical Surgery after Recovery

Chemical peeling is not a treatment that yields immediate results. It is rather uncomfortable, and the skin appears extremely unattractive in the healing phase. Superficial peels induce redness of the face lasting several days, followed by flaking of the superficial skin about five to seven days after the peel. For the first week, therefore, the patient actually looks older and more wrinkled than before! Deep peels cause the face to swell considerably which if properly treated should not be cause for alarm. The face will be raw and moist for up to two weeks following the procedure, but the patient must on no account yield to the temptation to tamper with the scabs since that could cause permanent scarring. Your dermatologist will recommend moisturizing creams to soften them.

A light peel takes two to four weeks to heal, a medium peel one to two months, and a deep peel four to six months. It is very important during this healing period not to expose yourself at all to the sun! Sun exposure could cause mottled, dark spotting of the skin. Remember, always wear a sunscreen of SPF 25 to 30, especially if you have ever had a chemical peel.

Chemical Skin Peels and Risks

Your doctor should advise you of the risks of chemical peeling. Anyone who has ever suffered from a fever blister could, during the healing period after chemical peeling, develop such blisters over the entire area treated. In anticipation of such a problem, the physician might prescribe the anti-viral prescription pill Zovirax (acyclovir) as a preventative. Needless to say, if anyone is contemplating even a light chemical peel, it is important that they advise their doctor if they have ever previously experienced even only one very small fever blister.

The most frequent adverse effect of chemical peels is the minor irregularity in contour between the treated and untreated areas of the skin. This does gradually disappear over time. As mentioned above, mottled, dark spots, or hyper- pigmentation, will result if the peeled skin is exposed to any ultraviolet rays, either from the sun or from tanning beds.

Another possible adverse effect of chemical peels is the loss of pigmentation. If segments of the face are peeled, those areas can appear whiter than the surrounding skin. Uneven depth of peel can also cause some white spots. These white areas are usually permanent, and must be camouflaged with make-up.

On rare occasions, scarring can occur if the peel is applied too deeply or when peeling is done on the neck and the limbs. Also, scarring can result when a full-face peel is done together with surgery to the face or eyelid. A full-face chemical peel should not be done within two months after surgery.

A Skin Chemical Peels A-peeling Process?

Chemical peeling has never been more effective, and less hazardous, than it is today. Complication rates are quite low and results are more predictable than ever before. Although the art of chemical peeling is an ancient one, new chemicals and refined techniques have generated renewed interest in this procedure.

The process is nevertheless one to be very carefully considered. That young people (aged 30 to 55) have chemical peels, and sometimes multiple ones, is a relatively recent medical phenomenon. Doctors, therefore, will not know with certainty for several decades the possible long-term health effects of multiple peels. It is a fact that chemical peels are actual burns of the face. Since we do know that serious sun-induced skin-damage is more prevalent in areas of previous burns, it seems a reasonable precaution to expect that chemical peels might also make the skin more susceptible to such damage.

If you have ever had a chemical peel, you must consider yourself obligated, therefore, to use a high SPF sunscreen and to protect yourself very assiduously from sun exposure at all times.

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