Prescription Hydroquinone and Tretinoin-based skin care regimens are designed to condition your skin prior to non-surgical facial rejuvenation procedures such as Laser or Intense Pulsed Light therapy.
By combining these prescription products with professional skin care treatments, patients can realize greater improvement in photo-aging, fine lines, wrinkles, skin texture, redness, puffiness, discoloration and dark spots. With a post- procedure conditioning regimen, the results can be further enhanced.
Your doctor can design a 4 to 6-step process for improving and restoring your overall skin quality using products listed below, which are applied morning and night.
1. Cleanser
2. Toner
3. Hydroquinone 4%
4. Exfoliator (alpha-hydroxy, salicylic or lactic acids)
5. Tretinoin (0.05% or greater)
6. Sunscreen SPF of 35 or greater
In a large scale clinical study (published in the Journal of Drugs in Dermatology*), patients age 35 to 65 with Fitzpatrick skin types I – IV were evaluated by doctors in terms of overall improvement in their facial skin and degree of hyperpigmentation, broken blood vessels, rough skin, fine lines and wrinkles, redness, peeling, burning and dry scaly skin.
Pre-conditioning with Hydroquinone and Tretinoin resulted in good or excellent results in overall skin quality, Post-conditioning increased the proportion of good results by 89%. Most important, the patients were highly satisfied with their overall improvement in facial appearance, skin texture and treatment regimen.
