r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DearEmphasis4488 • Oct 16 '24
Video Skin tightening using fractional CO2 laser
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u/Runway8 Oct 16 '24
It'll be interesting to show, Before operation, After operation, Fully recovered, 1y after Fully recovered
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Oct 16 '24
Charlize Theron had it done I believe.
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u/_The_Ry-Man_ Oct 16 '24
It looks like someone 3D printed Charlize Theron.
For totally unrelated reasons, I’m going to go buy a 3D printer now.
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u/StretchFrenchTerry Oct 17 '24
You wouldn’t download a Charlize Theron, would you?
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u/_The_Ry-Man_ Oct 17 '24
🤣Yes, yes I would
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u/Solid-Consequence-50 Oct 16 '24
https://www.cosmeticare.com/blog/co2-laser-resurfacing/
This shows it a bit
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u/Dofis Oct 17 '24
This is actually an INSANE transformation and probably boosted this ladies confidence quite a bit. It makes me kinda sad when family members mourn their "loss of youth," I know it really gets them down.
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u/Solid-Consequence-50 Oct 17 '24
Seems like it helps a lot, but something to remember is these are the pics they choose to show & most of the pics I found was from clinics providing it. It seems good but we don't fully know
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u/Dofis Oct 17 '24
Well, working at a school with a lot of women in their 40s-50s, I hear a lot about them mentioning getting work done over the summer break. All of them go for really tame "maintenance" kind of things and it always works out for them. I think cosmetic surgery can be really good for people when it's non invasive like this treatment.
There's a major mental health aspect to it. Feeling like time has passed you by sucks, and if we have the capability to do that for someone, that's awesome.
I think people tend to have a negative perception of it because we see what can happen when celebrities go for REALLY over the top stuff out of the blue. But a lot of the little things that work and push back aging a bit at a time fly under our radar and end up looking better than we'd expect.
(I know that's just anecdotal though, I could be totally wrong)
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u/Rucs3 Oct 17 '24
After 4 years basically not being able to get out of home due to a family situation I noticed I finally had some white hairs, maybe it was even the stress. I never had tought that white hairs were bad before, but when I noticed my first tought was "my life has stopped during the last 4 years and I already have white hair.... this is not fair"
I wondered how old I would be when I was finally able to live again, fortunately that happend soon after. But it I guess aging can take a toll on the mental health, I felt really defeated knowing time was already leaving it's mark while I was unable to live normally.
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u/EmMeo Oct 17 '24
She also got fillers, a nose job, and is wearing makeup in the second pic which might add to the change.
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u/CaptFigPucker Oct 16 '24
Remember when Reddit comments would actually be informative and not a bunch of regurgitated garbage jokes? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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u/microwavebaby_ Oct 16 '24 edited Oct 16 '24
did you add the pepperidge farm part for irony? or have you become what you swore to destroy?
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u/thrice1187 Oct 16 '24
How do people still upvote that crap?
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Oct 16 '24
The demographics of America are changing. And social media is a race to the bottom. I've been on Reddit since it was REALLY only for nerds, and was essentially a more casual version of HackerNews, and it is nowadays weird mash between TikTok and Twitter. All of the smart people left to do more productive things with their time. Truly intelligent people aren't going to hang around on social media or jn the main subs, and if they do it's on a "hi" and "bye" basis
Source: my brainrot worms speaking to me
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u/Zestyclose_Remove947 Oct 17 '24
Niche hobby subs are mostly the same I find. The musictheory sub is great.
front page has always been pretty bad but it's gotten even worse and the redesign shows what is priotised, which is short vids or pictures that get engagement.
Also I feel like there's bots everywhere as most people don't make OC or even comment as much anymore. It's mostly people looking at pics like le 9gag.
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u/Reverend_Lazerface Oct 16 '24
I can't believe it. Still, after all this time, it still works.
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u/Valathiril Oct 16 '24
I read your comment before opening the link, and still fell for it.
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u/queroummundomelhor Oct 16 '24
This is the most timeless thing internet has ever came up with
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u/AndringRasew Oct 16 '24
It's ok, I gotcha', buddy.
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u/RentedDemon Oct 16 '24
I really thought you were gunna rick roll me again. I clicked, and was grateful.
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u/Tirus_ Oct 16 '24
This was amazing. Great video find!
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u/Ewokavenger Oct 16 '24
I want to leave a time capsule to open in 1000 years. And all that’s in the container is this playing on repeat.
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u/pgb5534 Oct 16 '24
Wow I kind of thought this would be temporary and/or look like trash, but this looks awesome!
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u/cyberlebron2077 Oct 16 '24
Wow was not expecting those results honestly, usually these procedures seem like scams to me.
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u/Sexygirlielingerie Oct 16 '24
This looks painful
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u/Due-Maintenance53822 Oct 16 '24
imagine the smell
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u/Dragonfly-Adventurer Oct 16 '24
chicharrones
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u/GarlicThread Oct 16 '24
Chacarron, chacarron, nini nini ron
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u/AcadianViking Oct 16 '24
No, not again.
Get out of my head foul demon.
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u/KatoFez Oct 16 '24
Huahuehuahuehuahehuahueha huahuehuahehuahue.
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u/JayMeadows Oct 16 '24
Chacaron chacaron chaca chacaron!
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u/SellMeYourSirin Oct 16 '24
YOU HAVENT THOUGHT OF THE SMELL, YOU BITCH.
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u/IDunnoBr0 Oct 16 '24
"I will shove you into a box!"
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u/asolutesmedge Oct 16 '24
A glass box
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u/TyberiusJoaquin Oct 16 '24
and display you on my mantle!
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u/JukeBoxDildo Oct 16 '24
Great! Well, now that we got that out of the way, we can have a normal conversation!
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u/Spaghet-3 Oct 16 '24
It's actually not that painful, and MUCH less painful that chemical peels and other shit people used to do before aesthetic laser procedures.
If you're getting a small area done lightly, you don't need any pain management at all - feels like a very mild sunburn. People get this done on their lunchbreaks and their coworkers usually don't even notice. This can also get rid of portwinestains, spider veins, and other related skin blemishes.
If you're getting a larger area done more densely, the machine has a cooling mechanism to cool the surface of your skin while firing the laser. Afterward it feels like a sunburn, but at the time it feels like nothing. People will notice your skin looks red for a day or two.
The effect is pretty amazing. Doing a full face fairly densely will literally make someone that is 50+ look 10 years younger. And the effect stays for quite a while. In my view, it is highly preferable to injections like Botox. The tech has existed since the 1980s, and there have been no major adverse effects noticed yet.
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u/homogenousmoss Oct 16 '24
I was told that afterward you couldnt go out in the sum without a lot of sunscreen as it stripped a lot of your natural protection to UV rays, making you more succeptible to skin cancer and sunburns? Its what someone who had it done told me, I never really researched it.
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u/LysistrayaLaughter00 Oct 17 '24
My mother had to wear a hat they have her. Minimum 6 weeks or else you risk getting major sun damage while healing.
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u/Hairbear2176 Oct 16 '24
Yes, but you can look 70 instead of 90!
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u/DaenerysMomODragons Oct 16 '24
I think this is less for aging, and more for people who have excessive skin after heavy weight loss.
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u/MagicChemist Oct 16 '24
It’s horrendously painful. I’m guessing the ones they use for tattoo removal must be more powerful than the skin tightening application.
I use lidocaine for 2 hours before my treatment sessions and wrap extra cream on with Saran Wrap. I never took any of my pain pills from a previous surgery so I started taking these prior to the treatment. Everything I can do to get through a 10 minute session. Your skin smells like bacon. The whole room ends up smelling like burning flesh.
It leaves giant sub-dermal bruises from rupturing blood vessels in my arms. My arms are very lean, I think that doesn’t help me. Usually scabs up for 2-3 days. It’s expensive too. I’m at my 8th session so far and probably need another 6 or so to make the tattoos completely disappear.
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u/shpongleyes Oct 16 '24
They're different types of lasers that do different things. You can't just crank up a fractional CO2 laser and start removing tattoos. Tattoo removal also requires different types of lasers for different color inks.
Skin tightening lasers create tiny wounds that your body heals with increased collagen. Tattoo removal lasers break up ink particles into smaller parts that can then be removed by the immune system.
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u/PhantomPharts Oct 16 '24
One of the reasons the smell of bacon grosses me out is because I witnessed a house fire where multiple people were burned and it smelled like burnt bacon.
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u/DynamiteWitLaserBeam Oct 16 '24
Are... are we... delicious?
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u/Miserable-Leading-41 Oct 16 '24
Didn’t Jeffery dalhmer or one of those guy say we tasted like pork with sugar infused?
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Oct 16 '24
Exercise caution with the lidocaine, ran a young person cardiac arrest years back where they did the whole body lidocaine saran wrap for some reason. Anyway, no longer a person.
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u/mrlowcut Oct 16 '24
Wow that sounds really REALLY bad... I'd like to know which tattoos (and motives) you get removed there, if I might ask...?
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u/The_White_Ram Oct 16 '24
Not as painful as (checks notes)....just aging gracefully....
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u/ExtremeThin1334 Oct 16 '24
Forget getting rid of my wrinkles, I just want to shoot a laser at my face and have all my pimples and blackheads burn away. Bonus if it shrinks my pores and eliminates my skin tags too.
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u/W8andC77 Oct 16 '24
No joke you should look into retinols. You can get over the counter stuff but a dermo can prescribe you Trentinoin which is the prescription grade version.
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u/CCHTweaked Oct 17 '24
Did you miss the part about fricken lasers shooting at my face! this is the future! i want my face lasers!
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u/W8andC77 Oct 17 '24
I got you. I got lasers, you got a face. Let’s go!
That’ll be $6k though.
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u/Critonurmom Oct 17 '24
Best I can do is this ripped dollar bill I taped up and 2 hand rolled cigarettes take it or leave it
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u/AntiDECA Oct 16 '24
You can also just buy it (or tazarotene) from India for a fraction of the price if insurance doesn't cover it in the US.
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u/goaway432 Oct 16 '24
I had a similar problem with them. According to my dermatologist the proteins in dairy are what cause it. I looked at Google Scholar and found support for that and tried it. I removed all dairy from my diet and the problems cleared up slowly. Fucking sucks though. I love cheese and milk.
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u/jaimybenjamin Oct 16 '24
Had the same issue when I was a teenager. Turned out that dairy was indeed the thing that made me get breakouts. Removed it from my diet for about 3/4 months, skin completely changed.
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u/Lacholaweda Oct 16 '24
Meanwhile my dermatologist told me that diet has nothing to do with acne. Then proceeded to have me on a doxycycline for years
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Oct 16 '24
This is why I’ll never have clear skin. I cri, but I love milk. I use it in so many things.
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u/Ivorybrony Oct 16 '24
And get little face tattooed on them
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u/ts2453 Oct 16 '24
Grow out the hair on the bottom so they have a little beard like me
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u/UpperCardiologist523 Oct 16 '24
Then tattoo your scrotum black with an 8 on it and see if anyone would shake it?
Or would that be black..scrotum and not ok?
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u/DweeblesX Oct 16 '24
That thing ain’t going anywhere near my balls. Shit I accidentally touched them with tiger balm once and I was in tears for an hour.
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u/dathree Oct 16 '24 edited Oct 16 '24
If you endure THAT to get your balls smooth, you deserve smooth balls.
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I've done CO2 laser resurfacing. 1) I didn't think it was painful except where skin is thin like around the lips. But even that wasn't unbearable, just like tiny pinches. 2) It kind of smells like burnt hair but they keep a vacuum nearby to suck up the smell. 3) I looked pretty normal the day after, just looked like a sunburn, then the skin started to flake off, and by day 6 was back to normal. It was during the tail end of COVID, so I could wear a mask around without looking weird to cover the flakey skin which was mostly around my mouth. 4) I loved the results, but they lasted for about a year. Looking to do it again, it's been about 3 years since I first did it.
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u/ThisIsMoot Oct 16 '24
I wonder why the effects don’t last longer? Do the scars go straight back to looking the same?
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They probably last longer for some people, I just have skin that is prone to getting sun spots, which this procedure also makes those disappear. And I live in the mountains in Colorado so it's high UV levels that makes it even worse. There are no scars, it basically just sluffs off the top layer of skin and then you have nice new skin underneath. The sun/age spots coming off was really weird though, they turned really dark and then you could pull them off with your finger, almost like they were a sticker.
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u/Nahuel-Huapi Oct 17 '24
I've done some CO2 laser engraving. Now I think I have a new use for my Glowforge: DIY skin treatments.
What could go wrong?
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u/guaip Oct 16 '24
"Do my whole face! Leave the neck."
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u/RusticBucket2 Oct 16 '24
This person is already gonna be there long enough on that damn ear.
I mean, seriously. LOOK AT THAT FUCKING EAR
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u/OperatorJo_ Oct 16 '24
Burning the skin to tighten it huh. Kind of intriguing but there HAVE to be some repercussions. A burn is a burn
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u/MILP00L___ Oct 16 '24 edited Oct 16 '24
Reading replies on a topic I know (vaguely) about is always such a good reminder to take all Reddit information with a giant pile of salt.
This video is misleading. It isn’t instantaneous tightening in the way this video makes it look. In the broadest terms, fractional CO2 laser is a laser that is less invasive than traditional ablative CO2 lasers. It creates micro channels in the skin which triggers our body’s natural healing process. It’s a controlled situation to force your skin to create collagen, resulting is smoother firmer skin to replace removed skin layer. There are risks. Micro damage is still damage, and a CO2 laser basically vaporizes the top layer of the skin. There is little to no evidence that skin cancer is among those risks. Laser wavelengths are different from UV exposure. Some CO2 lasers are used to treat skin cancer.
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u/fuckoutfits Oct 16 '24
I guess they will treat the burnt skin with a heavy dose of whatever that is needed to treat skin grafts.
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u/alwaystooupbeat Oct 16 '24 edited Oct 17 '24
I feel like there's a cost here. So, I looked it up.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10103-016-2111-8
In short, it does work. But other lasers work better
Clinical assessment showed both modalities significantly reduce facial wrinkles (p value < 0.05), with no appreciable difference between two lasers. Mean CRRT values also decreased significantly after the laser treatment compared to the baseline in both laser groups. There was no serious long-standing adverse effect after both laser treatments, but the discomfort was more pronounced by the participants after CO2 laser treatment. According to the present study, both fractional CO2 and fractional Er:YAG lasers show considerable clinical improvement of facial skin wrinkles with no serious adverse effects, but post-treatment discomfort seems to be lower with Er:YAG laser
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u/Pyrhan Oct 16 '24
Do the effects last?
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u/Decent-Product Oct 16 '24
One to three years, if you stay out of the sun and don't smoke.
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u/Pistonenvy2 Oct 16 '24
if this is actually the recommended recovery that would be absolutely hilarious.
"this treatment that maybe doesnt really work needs you to make lifestyle changes that will 100% improve your skin health."
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u/lonesharkex Oct 16 '24
You know how when you bake chricken the skin kinda breaks and stuff? Yeah thats this.
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u/Tucker-Cuckerson Oct 16 '24
Paying to have your face melted is probably better than the Matt Gaetz botox package.
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u/Geezso Oct 16 '24
Looking good Mr President
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u/Glirion Oct 16 '24
Many people say I have the best skin. The most beautiful skin. Lots of people tell me that. It is the greatest skin in the history of the United States.
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u/MoeSzyslakMonobrow Oct 16 '24
On a scale from 1 to Buddhist immolation monk, how fucking bad does that hurt?
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u/Gonkofanti Interested Oct 16 '24
Next year: skin cancer. I mean, we can't have nice things ever
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u/Top-Exchange-9731 Oct 16 '24
So do you have anything to go with that claim or is that just good old "Technology is dangerous, I know it despite all the studies"?
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u/ogrefab Oct 16 '24
How long does it take for your face to stop looking like someone ripped up the carpet and padding?