Facial laser peeling, by contrast, can be done in one afternoon in a doctor's office. The results are generally excellent, and the recovery is quite manageable. Most of our patients choose to treat the entire face, but some have work done only around the eyes or the mouth. Either way, if done skillfully, laser peeling can produce remarkable improvements. These things can happen with a laser peel, but it's rare.
Dermabrasion also produces a lot of bleeding.
It's been said in some medical texts that 50 percent of dermabrasion patients wish they'd never had the procedure. Acid peeling is the chemical version of the same idea. Phenol produces a lot of wrinkle shrinkage, but also produces permanent color loss in virtually every case. Patients often end up with a white cast to their faces, which will need to be covered up with make-up. Generally this is acceptable only in elderly patients.