Dr Sophie Shotter explains how the skin repairs itself and the importance of good hygiene for quality healing
In my experience, the way the skin is cared for following an aesthetic procedure can have as much influence on the outcome of a treatment as the procedure itself. The term aesthetics is applied to a very broad range of procedures, including noninvasive treatments such as light therapy, peels or injectables, right the way through to surgical facelifts and implants. Whatever the procedure, they all, to a varying degree, involve causing a level of disruption or trauma to the skin. Generally speaking, the more invasive the procedure, the more skin trauma caused; however, there are also many non-invasive procedures such as dermal needling, facial peels or lasering, which involve causing deliberate trauma in order to stimulate the process of cell regeneration and therefore skin healing. Managing the healing process is consequently an intrinsic aspect of all aesthetic procedures and, without…
