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  • Experience is ESSENTIAL
  • Pre-Treatment Questions
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    Experience is ESSENTIAL

    Having any laser treatment is a serious thing. Lasers are highly delicate devices which require experience to operate. While freckles are a highly treatable condition with lasers, it's very important that any brown spotting be looked at by a board-certified dermatologist first to determine if they may be skin cancer. If a dermatologist determines them to be merely freckles, then a laser surgeon may remove them. Here are some questions to consider prior to treatment:

    Pre-Treatment Questions:

    1. Are you a board-certified physician?
    2. Is there a board-certified physician of any kind in the office?
    3. Are these spots cancerous or pre-cancerous?
    4. Are you confident these spots are freckles?
    5. How much experience do you have at performing this treatment?
    6. Are there alternative treatments which may be more effective for my skin?
    7. What's your medical specialty? (Dermatology, Family Medicine, etc.)
    8. Do you have any references? Before and After photos?

    Is treatment painful?

    Most people find the treatment tolerably annoying or slightly uncomfortable. It's not uncomfortable enough that I ever use topical numbing creams prior to treatment. Pain thresholds vary, and in my practice I find that men tend to have lower thresholds for pain than women, but rarely does anyone complain about the pain of the laser treatment.

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