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Case study · Skin Treatments
Fading post-inflammatory marks on deeper skin
Four conservative microneedling sessions for post-inflammatory pigmentation on deeply pigmented skin, spaced wide and paired with a home routine.
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How the course ran
The breakouts had settled two years earlier. The brown marks they left behind had not, and she had spent a lot of money on brightening products that did very little.
Post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation on richly pigmented skin needs care, because the same trauma that treats it can cause more of it. We patch tested, treated conservatively at shallow depths, spaced the sessions six weeks apart rather than four, and put her on a tyrosinase-inhibiting routine and a daily SPF 50 for the whole course. The home half of this is not optional and does most of the work.
The photograph is at five months from the first session. The marks are clearly lighter and there are fewer of them. Several are still visible and the tone is still uneven, which is a fair five-month result rather than a disappointing one.
Individual results vary. Deeper skin tones need conservative settings and a longer course; treating aggressively here does not speed anything up, it causes the exact problem we are treating.
Individual results vary
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