Skin rejuvenation methods and products differ greatly. However, the wide spectrum of available options only provide a limited number of common risks and complications. Most patients see positive results, but since every patient reacts differently to separate skin rejuvenation methods, some individuals face a higher chance of negative effects.
Rejuvenation Variety and Safety
Skin rejuvenation products range from injectable dermal fillers to laser based treatments, such as fractional resurfacing. Each product provides different benefits, lengths of effectiveness, and risks and complications.
Before receiving any form of skin rejuvenation, patients must first consult with the administering team of medical professionals in order to understand all possible risks. In many cases, patients will first receive allergen tests or other necessary screening evaluations to ensure safety.
Allergen Risks
Generally, all allergen effects occur in patients that receive either a chemical peel treatment or injectable dermal fillers. Both of these treatments utilize chemical based solutions, some natural, and others not. These treatments pose the highest risk to patients that commonly have allergic outbreaks, though pre treatment allergens screenings help determine how much of a danger the patient actually faces.
Many product developers try to use all natural ingredients rather than man-made ingredients. This alone helps dramatically limit possible allergen effects.
Methods that utilize laser treatment cause far less allergen issues in comparison to peels and fillers. Lasers from light or charged atoms contain no added ingredients. These lasers pose virtually no allergen risk.
Prolonged Skin Damage
Every patient has a different skin network composed of many separate collagen connections. This causes a slightly different reaction for every patient, and unfortunately, many patients suffer from treatments that others do not.
Powerful laser based treatments, such as fractional resurfacing, purposely break down layers of skin. The patient will naturally rebuild the removed layers over time. Some patients recover in a matter of weeks, while others face much longer healing times. The healing duration also changes due to the size of the treated area.
Adverse skin reactions also occur in patients that receive powerful chemical peel treatments. These products break down damaged layers of skin the same way as fractional resurfacing methods do. If healing takes longer than the suggested time, patients generally perceive their reaction as negative. However, due to the differentiation in individual skin networks, no exact time frame will match all treatment cases.
Injectable Problems
Many injectable dermal fillers use similar ingredients that help elevate areas of skin that sink or wrinkle due to aging. The use of natural ingredients, such as animal collagen, helps ensure patient safety since this type of natural chemical dissolves into the patient’s body. However, patients do face the risk of not properly absorbing all of the chemical ingredients.
If a moderate amount of any ingredient remains under the skins surface instead of dissolving, patients usually see or feel hardened bumps. Although this possible complication generally does not lead to medical side effects, the visual or physical results pose undesirable results.
Patients who thoroughly engage in researching a product and its specific result records have a better chance of avoiding such complications in dermal fillers and other products as well.
