My very own dermatologist is my dermaroller! Yep, she does my dermaroller-ish treatment manually as she deems it more suited for my acne scars.
Dermarolling treatment promises a lot of beauty benefits such as finer pores, deep scar treatment, improved skin elasticity and diminished fine lines. You pay for a dermaroller kit (dermaroller plus the topical anesthesia) and you're off to around 5 to 6 sessions (depending on the gravity of your scars) of skin puncturing.
Dermaroller pics, choose your variant!Outer two rollers offer a bigger area of dermarolling
Middle roller is a three-liner variant
Price range: 14,000PHP-40,000PHP (kit plus doctor's fee)
My procedure mimics dermarolling, but is a whole lot more tedious. Collagen induction or subcision is the hard (and meticulous) way of getting dermarolling's benefits. Thank God for such a passionate and honest dermatologist, she offered this taxing treatment (on her part) despite the fact that she can just mow my face with that dermaroller! She has this needle that she pushes onto my severely diffused acne pits. This technique allows scarring and eventually, deposition of collagen fibers above the scars.
Three hours post-subcision/collagen inductionLook at those huge pores!!!
Costs me: 1,oooPHP (suki price. LOL) along with glycolic and DP treatment
One week and 2 days after: still with scarringDo not force the scab to get off your skin; don't even help them get loose
It took me a week and five days before I went back in action. I don't know but my scars take up so much time to heal. Some of those who undergo similar treatment take a week (or even less) for complete healing.
I noticed significant results when my scars healed completely. I had less obvious pores and the pits were more shallow this time! These pics were taken January 2009... my second session for subcision. The first treatment was last September 2008, where I noticed impressive results as well.
I hope I could afford fraxel (my derma tells me that this is the best option for me). But she doesn't offer this treatment just yet (imagine that! she was honest enough to recommend a treatment she has yet to offer) and besides, fraxel is waaay too expensive and I don't have the money for it (if I had the money, I'd go for it).
My MD, a fellow Thomasian: Sixta Foronda , M.D.
Treatments I avail from her: DP, Glycolic treatment, collagen induction, TCA, steroid injection for major zits
i'm glad you posted this. i also have pitted scars from acne that i got when i was younger. i'm saving up for either dermarolling or fraxel, actually. it's funny that you mentioned both :P
Crystal, pretty!
:D my derma told me that i had these two as choices. she casted her vote on fraxel for me, but she doesnt have it, and I refuse to look for other MD's (im tired of going from one doc to another). so im left with drmarolling... but since she wanted fraxel's "pixelized" and more localized effect for my skin, she opted to do a manual dermarolling instead :) love her to bits!
That's a great post. Thank you for that.
i've been considering this procedure also, hope u update us with ur progress :)
wow! that's an improvement! My skin has been seeing better days as well (self treatment hehe) I haven't seen my derma in months! before, when I have a huge zit I call for an appointment immediately for her to control my breakout. I haven't tried dermarolling and she never used it on me either. Maybe because I have fine pores. :p
thank you for posting this!
WOW! that is extremely interesting. I never heard of the method. till now. A great improvement!
Thank you for sharing your experience!
That looks awfully painful!
Especially if you had done it with the dermarollers... those things look like lethal weapons x]
&Thanks for posting about this!
I've never heard about this before and I kinda wanna try it now since I have acne scarring and I wouldn't mind making my pores smaller also.
Hope you update us with your progress!(:
you can also get it bath and body works
I have a very similar skin texture to yours, it's so devastating but dermarolling seems like my only possible solution. I'm not sure if you're Filipino but you must be light skinned if Fraxel is a possibiliy, I'm a dark skinned Filipino and I'm scared of having my pigment ruined. Is there a way we can correspond so I can ask you questions about the procedure?
Hi Sebastiana,
email me at argie022021@yahoo.com
i'm pinay :D
Hello :) I went to herroyalbleakness' derma and had the same treatment. Fortunately, my wounds are healing fastly. Dr. Sixta is a great dermatologist, you should try her. I'll update you on my skin in a few days. :D Thanks again for recommending her. Great site btw. :)
hi there! i'm glad i found your site.. i've been researching about dermarolling and fraxel and your post is really helpful. i would like to try dr. foronda, may i have her contact number? thanks!
Heizel,
gee, thanks for liking my stuff in this Bin :) Glad my posts helped. When will I meet you??? :)
Regina,
Thanks for finding it helpful :)
7522087 is the number to call. Her secretary's name is Jovie... tell her sec nalang you bumped into my post para she can slash off a good heap of pesos if you decide to try her out.
G'luck!
OMG! thank you!!! i'm thinking of going there on dec 1. hehe! may i know your name para masabi ko skanya? here's my number 09278095222 super thanks ha! you're heaven sent! ^__^
Hi sis. Gusto ko na i-try si Doc 6f because of your nice reviews on her. Sana maging happy rin ako with her.
Tamarind26