Dermabrasion

A procedure that resurfaces the skin by mechanically abrading its surface. In people taking isotretinoin or who have recently stopped it, caution continues to apply for deep procedures such as mechanical dermabrasion and fully ablative laser to the whole face; milia may appear afterwards.

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