This treatment will give you a smoother skin, often with few or no telltale signs to show where the treatment was done. Dermabrasion is most often used to treat extensive acne scars. Besides treating scars, dermabrasion is used to smooth wrinkles on the face and around the mouth.
Dermabrasion is done in an outpatient surgery center or a hospital operating room.
For dermabrasion, skin is numbed with local anesthetic via needle injections, combined with sedation. Extensive dermaplaning requires general anesthesia. It takes about one hour or less, for dermabrasion of part or all of the face. Once your skin is numbed, the dermabrader is turned on. The dermabrasion instrument is a small, round metal brush or file.