When it comes to skin treatment, doctors often recommend combining multiple treatments, and many people worry that the combination of medical beauty treatments may increase the burden on the skin.
Why do doctors often recommend combining multiple projects? Will doing multiple treatment projects hurt the skin more? Is there any particular order for treatment? This is actually the concept of combined or comprehensive treatment for the skin. How can we understand it?
We can think of doing skin therapy as playing King of Glory, different projects are heroes with different skills. When we want to kill enemy heroes (improve skin problems), using a set of skill combos can bring greater power, dealing heavy damage or even instantly knocking down enemy heroes. In skin treatment, the “skill combo” here refers to the comprehensive treatment of the skin.
Why the recommendation is comprehensive treatment?
The purpose of comprehensive treatment is to achieve the desired therapeutic effects. First, there are many projects in cosmetic dermatology that aim to improve different skin problems from different dimensions.
These projects can be roughly divided into three categories:
① Optoelectronics, such as photon rejuvenation, picosecond, ultrasound, thermage, etc.
② Chemical peels, such as salicylic acid and fruit acid therapy.
③ Water light, such as water light injection, etc.
Although it is the same skin problem, it is caused by multiple factors.The improvement effect of a single treatment may be limited. Therefore, when we have scientific treatment from different dimensions, we can actually achieve the desired effect.
In general, comprehensive treatment of the skin is to customize personalized treatment courses based on different skin types, age groups, seasonal changes and other factors in order to better improve problems at different levels of the skin.
What are the “golden CPs” for skin treatment?
There are many “golden CPs” combinations for comprehensive treatment plans, including photoelectric+fruit acid skin rejuvenation, commonly used for the treatment of acne and improve dull skin, etc; Optoelectronics+water light, commonly used in anti-aging treatments for the skin; Optoelectronic+wrinkle removal is also commonly used for facial anti-aging, improving dynamic wrinkles and other skin problems.
For example, in the treatment of acne, a combination of photon rejuvenation and salicylic acid/fruit acid therapy is often used. The treatment starts with shallow to deep pore opening, activating the metabolism of epidermal cells and then inhibits the secretion of sebaceous glands through photothermal action, thereby reducing skin inflammation and improving acne.
In the treatment plan for facial anti-aging, this photothermal effect can stimulate collagen regeneration in the skin. Water and light can supplement the skin with necessary substances through open channels.
Will comprehensive treatment brings greater burden to the skin?
Actually not. The premise of medical beauty combination therapy is not to increase adverse reactions, which is a major medical principle.
Dermatologists will choose appropriate treatment projects based on the situation, rather than blindly overlapping them. By combining multiple treatment projects to form a “golden CP”, better therapeutic effects can be achieved and adverse skin reactions can be alleviated to a certain extent.
What are the considerations for the order of treatment?
In comprehensive treatment, the order of treatment for multiple projects needs to be determined by the doctor based on your skin condition, generally following the basic principles below:
- If the comprehensive treatment project is on the same day, the non-invasive treatment of the epidermis should be placed at the front, and the invasive treatment should be placed at the back.
- If multiple projects are not on the same day, the order of treatment is not so strict and treatment can be matched according to a certain interval.
Comprehensive treatment emphasizes individuality and wholeness.When doctors advise you to combine treatments, they are more about allowing several projects to work together to achieve better results, rather than simply combining 1+1. Those who seek beauty should also be rational. If they are detached from their actual skin condition and only pursue “quantity”, they will not get the desired effect.
Many sisters have done projects such as hot Maggie, fruit acid skin rejuvenation, picosecond and photon rejuvenation. In fact, medical beauty projects can be matched with skin care ingredients, or even combined to maximize the effect.
The trend of combination therapy has been very strong in the past two years, and it is a particularly hot topic in medical aesthetics. Today, we will list which medical aesthetics projects can be combined with different skin types to achieve the 1+1>2 effect!
Sensitive red blood vessels
If your biggest skin problem at the moment is sensitivity, unstable seasonal changes, redness and barrier damage, different types of problems can be improved through the following medical beauty treatments.
Crimson and easily sensitive – photons/superphotons, water light; red blood vessels-superphotons;redness+pores+oil extraction- golden microneedle+water light; rose acne (stable phase) – superphoton, water light
Shuiguang needle has powerful anti-inflammatory, repairing, anti redness, and reconstruction effects on healthy skin and muscle base. It is very effective in maintaining unstable skin conditions.
In clinical practice, it is commonly used in combination with superphotonic therapy to treat facial vasodilation, red blood streaks and alleviate the problem of redness and instability after phototherapy. It is best for sensitive skin to get regular maintenance with water light and superphotons, which can significantly improve skin tone and barrier health.
How to choose between superphoton and photon rejuvenation?
People that are suitable for photon skin rejuvenation: skin that is relatively stable and has mild problems in all aspects (brightening, even skin tone, slight improvement of redness and blood streaks)/skin without defects and wants to do routine maintenance.
People that are suitable for hyperphotonics: those with obvious acne/redness/acne constitution/those who expect more effective treatment.
Acne prone skin, large oil fields
If your biggest problem at the moment is the constant occurrence of acne and its surrounding issues, just match them.
Oil production, pore metabolism – photons, botulism/water light
Acne, mild acne – fruit acid rejuvenation+photon
Moderate to severe acne+pores – fruit acid rejuvenation+superphoton+gold microneedle
Acne pit+acne mark – dot matrix laser+superphoton
For sisters who have acne on their faces, it is recommended that you should brush acid and change your skin a week before the photo electricity surgery to remove the extra horniness, grease and blackheads on their faces.
In this way, the energy applied to the skin will have a better effect and also reduce the possibility of postoperative acne. You should know that the pigmentation on our face and body skin is usually caused by dead skin accumulation and melanin deposition. The combination therapy of “acid brushing+photoelectric” deprives old keratin from the outside and combats melanin from the inside, making it easy to become white from both inside and outside.
Color dullness and pigmentation muscle
The idea about the color sinking muscle is simple: ‘Shoot the bird that stands out the most’, and whoever stands out the most will be dealt with first. If there are no complex color fading issues such as color spots, VC water light combined with photons/superphotons can specialize in brightening. If freckle removal is needed, picosecond/ultra picosecond improvement is more clear, allowing for faster and smoother metabolism of deep color blocks and spots.
Dark, uneven and yellowish skin tone – photon/superphoton+VC water light
Dark skin tone+pigmentation-picosecond/ultra picosecond+light spot and anti-aging water light
Aging muscle
Have you noticed that the aging problem of our face is never singular, usually involving a combination of sagging, fine lines, drooping, and other factors.
Anti aging – photon/superphoton, basic water light
Fine lines, dry lines, dynamic lines – water light, botulinum toxin
Static line – hyaluronic acid/collagen filling
Although a single photoelectric anti-aging project can solve the problem of sagging, dynamic wrinkles and crow’s feet cannot be solved. It needs to be combined with injection anti-aging. Speaking of this, does anyone not know that botulinum toxin is the leader in wrinkle removal and lifting! Botulinum toxin achieves weight loss and wrinkle reduction by blocking the transmission of nerve and muscle, inhibiting muscle contraction.
In fact, there are very few skin problems with a single issue, most people have 2-3 or more skin problems at the same time.
For example, some skin has excessive oil production, enlarged pores, and uneven skin tone, while others have redness, excessive oil production, uneven skin tone and occasional small pimples. It is impossible to target only one problem at each stage. If the problem of sensitivity/acne is not resolved, get skin tone and pigmentation is wrong.
Many people always ask the question during face-to-face consultations: “Can I do more medical beauty projects in a short period of time? Will the effect be better?” This is actually wrong. Our skin has a tolerance, exceeding it not only cannot have an effective effect on human skin, but also cause irreversible damage to the skin. So after doing a project, the skin should be given a certain recovery period and the recovery period varies for different medical beauty projects.
How much time should there be between different projects?
Optoelectronic projects vs. RF/ultrasound projects
Light radiofrequency/ultrasound and optoelectronics: It is recommended to wait for at least one month until the large scale anti-aging projects achieve stable results before doing it, as it is an energy layer treatment that stimulates collagen regeneration by delivering some energy to the skin. Generally, optoelectronics projects do not cause significant skin damage and have a short recovery period.
However, changes such as facial sagging and severe nasolabial folds require a period of time to promote collagen regeneration and tissue tightening, so frequent treatment can cause certain damage to the skin. Therefore, it is recommended that the interval be no less than one month.
Injection projects vs. RF/ultrasound projects
If radio frequency, ultrasound and optoelectronics are used first, combined treatment with water light and botulinum toxin wrinkle removal can be carried out during the recovery period. After Thermage treatment, the skin is particularly prone to dryness and dehydration, water light injection is needed to moisturize and hydrate the skin after it stabilizes. This can achieve a synergistic effect.
But if it is a contour injection of hyaluronic acid/botulinum toxin, it is not recommended to do it immediately! After undergoing high-temperature treatments such as Thermage, the skin usually has a period of swelling or recovery, requiring collagen to be given time to recover and regenerate. After Thermage has taken effect, injecting hyaluronic acid or botulinum toxin can better help doctors choose the appropriate injection dosage and location.
So do the injection filling after at least 3 months after completing Thermage and other procedures. If you start with shallow injection projects, such as water needles, it is best to wait for one month before doing high-temperature deep projects.
If injecting hyaluronic acid, it is necessary to wait at least 2 months before doing high-temperature and deep anti-aging projects to avoid excessive heat affecting the maintenance time of hyaluronic acid.
