Laser Resurfacing Chicken Pox

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Laser Resurfacing Chicken Pox

Chances are that at one point in your life, you have had undergone the traumatic experience of chicken pox. It often is a rite of passage of childhood with chicken pox generally regarded as a disease of childhood with 90% of cases occurring in children aged 14 years and younger.

A highly contagious virus named Varicella virus causes the disease. Once contracted, chicken pox will begin manifesting itself in the form of rashes on the trunk and prolifically spreads to the face and extremities. The chicken pox lesion starts as a 2-4 mm red papule that develops an irregular outline. A thin-walled, clear vesicle develops on top of the area of redness before it becomes filled with a cloudy fluid. The fluid is highly contagious, but once the lesion crusts over, it is not considered contagious. Once, the crust falls off it leaves a craterlike scar.

This development of lesions continues on for about 7-10 days when all existing lesions have crusted over and fallen over. This marks the end of the disease.

It is often all to tempting to scratch these lesions before they crust over. This is strongly unadvised as scratching often disturbs the development of crust formation, and if removed too early, the resulting scar can be much deeper leading to a permanent scar. Thus the lingering effect of chicken pox can be felt by those who retain permanent chicken pox scars.

If scars are well concealed, then these scars cause little problems, but if scars are located in well-exposed areas, most notably the face, then it can negatively affect your appearance with accompanying poor body image and confidence problems. However an easy solution presents itself in the form of laser skin resurfacing.

Laser skin resurfacing is performed by a physician using a high energy pulsed carbon dioxide (C02) laser. The procedure applies laser energy in quick, intense bursts from a finely controlled laser beam to the outer layer of damaged skin (scar). This essentially vaporizes unwanted tissue and smooth surface indentations from the outer skin layer to reveal the healthy, unaffected underlying skin. Laser resurfacing chicken pox scar literally removes the outer layers of the skin, burning away scar tissue and stimulating the dermal collagen to tighten, reducing the amount of scar visibility.

If you have uneven chicken pox scars on your face, arms, legs or other places, and you want to smooth out your skin for an unnoticeable look with laser skin resurfacing. The results are consistently spectacular!

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