Wound Healing

Healing After Your Treatments

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After skin treatments, you can expect your skin to appear different depending on the treatment and how it heals:  

Redness and swelling: Redness, swelling, and a sunburn sensation are normal as your body heals the treated area. Redness can last longer for blondes and redheads.  

Peeling: The treated area may peel lightly or in a more sheeting manner 

Pinkness: The treated area may appear pink, which can fade over two to three months, but may take up to a year to go away.  

Blisters and scabbing: Blisters and scabbing may appear. Everybody can respond differently and occasionally this may happen.  

Brown spots: Brown spots and pigmentation may appear darker and then fade.

 Stages Of Treatment Healing ​​​

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Your body heals a wound in four main stages. 

The stages include: 

• preventing too much blood loss 

• defending and cleaning the area 

• repairing and healing 

Keeping the wound clean and covered can help your body repair the area. 

Stage 1: Stop the bleeding (haemostasis) Immediate 

When you get a cut, scratch, or other wound in your skin, it usually starts bleeding. The first stage of wound healing is to stop the bleeding. This is called haemostasis. 

Blood begins to clot seconds to minutes after you get a wound. This is the good kind of blood clot that helps to prevent too much blood loss. Clotting also helps to close and heal the wound, making a scab. 

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Stage 2: Inflammation - Scabbing over (clotting)Days 1-4 

Clotting and scabbing phase has three main steps: 

1. Blood vessels around the wound narrow. This helps to stop the bleeding. 

2. Platelets, which are the clotting cells in blood, clump together to make a “plug” in the wound. 

3. Clotting or coagulation includes a protein called fibrin. It’s “blood glue” that makes a net to hold the platelet plug in place. Your wound now has a scab over it. 

4. Inflammation, which involves cleaning and healing 

Once your wound isn’t bleeding any more, the body can begin cleaning and healing it. 

First, the blood vessels around the wound open a bit to allow more blood flow to it. 

This might make the area look inflamed, or a little red and swollen. It might feel a bit warm too. Don’t worry. This means help has arrived. 

Fresh blood brings more oxygen and nutrients to the wound — just the right balance to help it heal. White blood cells, called macrophages, arrive on the scene of the wound. 

Macrophages help clean the wound by fighting any infection. They also send out chemical messengers called growth factors that help repair the area. 

You might see clear fluid in or around the wound. This means white blood cells are at work defending and rebuilding. 

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Stage 3: Proliferative - Rebuilding (growth and proliferative) Days 4-21 

Once the wound is clean and stable, your body can begin rebuilding the site. Oxygen-rich red blood cells come to the site to create new tissue. It’s like a construction site, except your body makes its own building materials. 

Chemical signals in the body tell cells around the wound to make elastic tissues called collagen. This helps to repair the skin and tissues in the wound. Collagen is like a scaffold that other cells can be built on. 

At this stage in healing, you might see a fresh, raised, red scar. The scar will slowly fade in color and look flatter. 

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Stage 4: Remodelling - Maturation (strengthening) Day 21-2 years 

Even after your wound looks closed and repaired, it’s still healing. It might look pink and stretched or puckered. You may feel itching or tightness over the area. Your body continues to repair and strengthen the area. 

This last stage may look like it takes a long time but is THE reason we “TREAT” your skin, this phase creates the volume, structure, and support that lacks in an aging skin - post 30 years old. This means you will have biological changes for up to this time within the skin structures depending on type and depth of treatment applied BUT like going to the gym and building muscles you do need to stimulate this response regularly to obtain and maintain your desired results and improvement.