Photofacial maintenance happens how often?

Two published sources give the same rhythm for photofacial maintenance, which is useful for anyone in St. Johns, Florida planning beyond the first series.

The rhythm in published guidance

UT Southwestern Medical Center says that after the initial treatment series, maintenance treatments once or twice a year can help sustain results.

Sand Lake Dermatology says that once desired results are achieved, maintenance treatments are recommended one to two times per year.

The two sources agree on the pace, and both tie maintenance to the end of the first series.

The smallest sign to track

Both sources describe maintenance as a way to sustain results. That makes the results you reached at the end of the first series the baseline to protect. Your own photographs, compared against that baseline, give you something concrete to bring to the conversation about maintenance.

Where the procedure is described

The Penn Medicine Cosmetic Services photofacial page describes the procedure. DermNet has a pulsed dye laser treatment overview for a different treatment. A paper on unconventional uses of intense pulsed light is the research read on the light itself.

Dating the end of your first series

Ask your provider to write down the date your first series ended and what the results looked like on that day. Take photographs at the same point, then compare them each time you decide whether a maintenance visit is due.