Chemical Facial Resurfacing: The Modified Phenol-Crotinoil Peel

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“…9 Patients with fair or lighter complexions are usually the best candidates. Those patients with olive or darker complexions, marked solar damage, and those with freckles all require full-facial peeling and are not good candidates for regional peels.…”

“…Any patient-applied pretreatments can vary from patient to patient, and we do not want to change the epidermal kinetics. 9 Preoperatively, a complete and thorough history and physical examination are required. Evaluation of cardiac, hepatic, and renal function as well as any disorder that affects healing such as diabetes, collagen-vascular disease, history of radiation treatments, medications such as isotretinoin (Accutane, Roche, Nutley, New Jersey), and a history of herpes outbreaks should be well documented.…”

“…Baker and Hetter. 1,6,9 These zones represent the different skin thicknesses and level of skin appendages. They will Deep Chemical Peeling determine the depth of the peel and, in turn, which peel mixture is to be used for each facial zone (▶ Fig.…”