Patient education
Chemical Peels: Guides
Twelve guides to the chemical peel decision, from whether your skin can tolerate one and which depth your calendar can absorb, to the risks that belong to a peel specifically and the cases where the honest answer is not to peel at all.
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12 guides
- Chemical Peel Candidacy: What Your Skin Has to TolerateCandidacy
- Superficial or Medium-Depth: Choosing the Peel You Can Recover FromDeciding
- Which Skin Should Not Be Peeled, and Which Should WaitCandidacy
- What the Peel Assessment Has to EstablishPreparation
- What a Chemical Peel Cannot Change, However Deep It GoesLimits
- Chemical Peel Recovery: The Flaking Days and What They MeanRecovery
- Peel Risks Beyond Redness: Pigment Change, Scarring and Cold SoresRisks
- What a Deep Peel Can Leave Behind That Cannot Be UndoneIrreversibility
- Alternatives to a Chemical Peel, and the Option of Doing NothingAlternatives
- Questions to Ask Before You Agree to a PeelPreparation
- What a Peel Course Costs in Visits, Healing Days and Follow-UpCost and time
- When the Honest Answer to a Peel Is NoRefusal
Start with an assessment, not a depth
Arrange an assessment. We establish how your skin has behaved after previous injury, which depth your calendar can absorb, what the flaking weeks involve, and say plainly when a lighter plan or no peeling at all is the better answer.