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Article: Nonablative fractional resurfacing improves acne scars in darker skin.(Aesthetic Dermatology)
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- Skin & Allergy News
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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MIAMI -- Nonablative fractional resurfacing with an erbium-doped 1,550-nm laser device can safely and effectively improve ache scarring among patients with skin types IV-VI, Dr. Wendy E. Roberts said at an international symposium sponsored by L'Oreal Institute for Ethnic Hair and Skin Research.
"Treatment of acne scars with ablative lasers in skin types IV-VI has been limited because of hypopigmentation and depigmentation risks," she said. This significant risk of hypopigmentation, in particular, has limited laser resurfacing for distensible and nondistensible acne scars in skin types other than I-III.
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