Dermarolling / Microneedling / Re: Post fractional CO2 laser hypopigmentation
« on: April 11, 2013, 05:20:09 PM »If your hypopigmentation is more or less on just several spots, buy a 1 mm dermastamp. Stamp the white patch (every week) and also a little over the edges of the white patch to facilitate the migration of melanocytes from the surrounding normal skin into the white patch.
You can attempt melanocyte harvesting:
Stamp normally pigmented skin several times to try to "harvest" some melanocytes and then stamp the hypopigmentation. Melanocytes are at the bottom of the epidermis, whose thickness is 0.1 - 0.3 mm. (Try it with and without occlusive dressing).
Apply your Protopic cream right after stamping and continue applying it every day.
When the skin is healed from microneedling, expose your spots to your NB-UVB lamp.
Basically you have to improvise a little and try various approaches. Unfortunately, there is no one single approach that always works for everybody.
You can try some of the substances for repigmentation that are discussed here but I cannot attest to their efficacy:
https://http://forums.owndoc.com/dermarolling-microneedling/melanocytes-transfer-for-white-scars-and-hypopigmentation/