Fresno Cosmetic Surgery vs. Noninvasive Treatments - Understanding TCA Peel Procedures

The current Fresno cosmetic surgery market is filled with many advertisements for "non-invasive procedures." These procedures' results are proportional to their inconvenience and recovery time. In other words, if you have a tougher recovery, generally speaking, you will have better result. Trichloroacetic acid peeling is the perfect example of this.

This treatment can be performed in a very non-invasive way with a minimal recovery that involves just a little bit of flaking of your skin. For the right patient, this can produce color improvement and texture improvement. On the other hand, if performed in a deep fashion, trichloroacetic acid can produce a tremendous improvement in wrinkling of the whole face. Deep trichloroacetic acid peels unfortunately have a tendency to cause scarring in the area of the jaw and sometimes around the mouth. For this reason, light TCA peels and moderate TCA peels have become the standard and deep TCA peels are practiced only by a few.

At my Visalia office, serving Bakersfield, Fresno cosmetic surgery, I offer both light and moderate TCA peels with or without sedation for patients who do not want to come back repeatedly for non-invasive treatments such as FotoFacials®. These peels can produce a great deal of improvement without all of the driving back and forth and the aggravation in the expense of waiting for your non-invasive treatment to mature.