Your dermabrasion or dermaplaning may take place in a dermatologic surgeon’s office, an outpatient surgery center, or possibly a hospital.
Dermabrasion and dermaplaning are fairly quick procedures, usually taking from a few minutes to an hour or so—it’s highly individual depending upon how extensive the correction. The doctor may recommend that the procedure is repeated or done in stages, especially when scarring is deep or a large area of skin is involved.
The procedure is usually performed under local anesthesia. You’ll be given a sedative that will relax you and make you drowsy, but you’ll be awake. Your skin will be thoroughly cleansed with an antiseptic and it may be sprayed with a freezing agent to numb your skin. The surgeon will then begin the procedure to remove the necessary layers of skin.
At the completion of the procedure, your skin may be dressed with a soothing ointment, a wet or waxy dressing, dry treatment, or some combination of these.
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