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Practical guidance from Kerri on aesthetic treatments, skin health, hair restoration, and making informed decisions about your care.
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Laser
One uses broad-spectrum light to target visible color in the skin. The other delivers laser energy below the surface. Here's how they differ and why one may be recommended over the other.
Laser
CO₂ resurfacing is not a single treatment. Intensity, depth, and recovery vary widely, and the lighter end of that range suits many patients better than the deepest settings.
Hair Restoration
A needle-free, in-office treatment for the scalp. Here is what the technology does, what a session involves, and what it cannot do.
Injectables
They are frequently confused and often discussed together, but they solve different problems. Knowing which is which makes your consultation far more productive.
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Laser
One uses broad-spectrum light to target visible color in the skin. The other delivers laser energy below the surface. Here's how they differ and why one may be recommended over the other.
Laser
CO₂ resurfacing is not a single treatment. Intensity, depth, and recovery vary widely, and the lighter end of that range suits many patients better than the deepest settings.
Hair Restoration
Two in-office approaches to thinning hair, with genuinely different mechanisms. Neither is universally better, and the evaluation matters more than the technology.
Injectables
Results are temporary by design. What varies is how temporary — and several of the factors involved are worth understanding before your first treatment.
Laser
Recovery is not one experience. It scales with how deep and how aggressive the treatment was, and knowing the general pattern makes the first week far less unsettling.
Hair Restoration
A needle-free, in-office treatment for the scalp. Here is what the technology does, what a session involves, and what it cannot do.
Laser
Years of sun show up as brown spots, uneven tone, and visible redness. IPL targets that visible color — with real limits worth understanding first.
Laser · Skin Health
Both aim at collagen, but the way they get there is completely different — and so is what the first few days afterward look like.
Injectables
They are frequently confused and often discussed together, but they solve different problems. Knowing which is which makes your consultation far more productive.
Skin Health
Sun damage does not show up as one problem, which is why it is not treated with one solution. A practical guide to matching concerns to approaches.
Consultation
Reading is a good place to start. A treatment plan comes from an in-person evaluation of your skin, your history, and your goals.