I just saw another of your video logs, the one on CROSS used for some types of scars. Very very interesting.
Wow, those concentrations of TCA are no joke! Thank God I am not a doctor, for my hands are not too steady, me, with those high concentrations of TCA would maybe burn the skin of someone! aghhhh. Glad that there are experts for that like you!!
Just a question on TCA strenghts (and no, I would never use those acids myself
). I thought (maybe because I never had one of those peels) that TCA was a super strong peel, even with the much lower concentrations that docs usually offer (don't remember which specific concentration, though) for "entire face" peels with it.
Maybe because I saw pics of the "crusting" from TCA, but it looked scary at lower concentrations
. Since it has or at least *looks like* it has such a strong impact in how the skin looks for some days, I wonder why TCA is needed in even higher concentrations for TCA CROSS?
To be honest I would not trust almost any doc but you, who already have such an experience with it, with using such strenghts on my face
I mean, I really wonder if any of the docs I know would have a steady hand and not make a hole in my face with it! 
Are the super high concentrations needed because at lower concentrations TCA does not cause enough collagen buildup/formation? Does the skin need a real bad burn/wound for the scar to fill up a bit? or do serial applications of the peels offered by derms - I don't know, at 20% say??- over one same spot get eventually the same result than one 50 or 100% TCA? (taking longer, of course) Or does the skin need strong TCA to have the sort of reaction one is looking for?
If not truly effective for, say, scars, why are lower strenght TCA peels used anyway and called "medium" to strong peels? Do they have any effect, as in "better" than lighter peels with glycolic, mandelic, lactic acid? Do they fill in anything over time or only the CROSS method can get that result?
Just curious, I do not plan using any acid myself nor ask any doc I know to use it!!! I will better wait, in case I ever had it, to have YOU do it. It sounds like stuff that can be good or horrible, depending on whose hands apply it.
Hugs
:)Since someone else might have asked this and me not noticed it, do you think it would be a good idea to create a FAQ section, so less of us would post questions already asked?
Hugs again!
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