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Does Laser Resurfacing Mean Pain and Months of Downtime?

Not necessarily, Dr. Naderi says: laser resurfacing doesn't have to mean general anesthesia or weeks and months of downtime and redness. What he says is true is that resurfacing with no downtime and no anesthesia often means six or eight treatments for barely any difference, which he calls a complete waste of money.

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Key Points from Dr. Naderi

  1. Laser resurfacing does not necessarily require general anesthesia.
  2. It does not necessarily mean weeks or months of downtime and redness.
  3. No-downtime treatments that take six or eight sessions and barely show a difference are, in his words, a complete waste of money.
  4. He introduces a laser he says can be tolerated without general anesthesia and used on every skin type, from light to dark.
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If you guys have researched any type of laser resurfacing, you'll know a few things. You've heard a few things. Hi guys. Hello. How are you? You'll hear about things like, laser resurfacing hurts, you have to have general anesthesia. Not necessarily. You've heard things like, laser resurfacing has weeks and weeks and months of downtime, redness. Not necessarily.

You've heard that if you get a laser resurfacing that doesn't have any downtime, doesn't need anesthesia, you'll need to do like six or eight treatments and you barely see any difference. That's true. I have seen plenty of those, and it's a complete waste of money. You do not want that at all. We don't want to waste any of this money.

So we're excited to be unveiling this amazing new technology that is so different than everything else out there. Totally different. It's going to give results. It's going to be tolerable without general anesthesia. It's going to give results without three months of downtime, and it can be used on every skin type, from pale, light, to dark, to anything in between: ethnic skin, Mediterranean, Indian, Middle Eastern, Arab, Asian, African American, everything. Excited. Super excited to be unveiling this little laser. It's coming soon. Hang tight.

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