General information only
The content of this site is patient education. It describes how light changes skin over a lifetime, how photodamaged skin is assessed, and what treatment costs in time, recovery and risk. It is not a diagnosis, it is not a treatment recommendation for any individual, and it does not create a doctor-patient relationship.
No substitute for examination
Whether a particular mark on your skin is sun damage, a pre-cancerous lesion or something that should be removed can only be established by examining it, usually with a lens, and often by comparing it with how it looked before. Reading this site cannot substitute for that, and a decision made from a website alone is a decision made without the information that matters most.
Results vary and are not guaranteed
Individual results differ, most treatments for photodamage work over months rather than weeks, and no clinician and no website can guarantee an outcome. Improvement in tone and texture is real and it fades when the exposure that produced the problem continues, so treatment is repeated to hold a result rather than completed once. Any statement that appears to promise more than that should be treated with suspicion wherever you encounter it.
If something changes after treatment
If you have had treatment to sun-damaged skin and develop blistering or weeping beyond the expected reaction, pain that is worsening rather than settling, spreading redness or fever, a sore that does not begin to heal, or new darkening or firmness in the treated area, contact the treating team rather than waiting for a routine appointment. A mark that grows rapidly, bleeds repeatedly or becomes painful after any treatment should be examined promptly.