by Dr Kenneth Lee | Aug 28, 2026 | Skin Health Guides
Doctor-written skin guide · Johor Bahru Pigmentation should be diagnosed before laser because brown or grey skin changes can represent melasma, PIH, sun spots, medication effects or a lesion that should not be treated cosmetically. The wrong wavelength, energy or...
by Dr Kenneth Lee | Aug 25, 2026 | Skin Health Guides
Doctor-written skin guide · Johor Bahru Melasma usually causes broader, often symmetrical facial patches influenced by ultraviolet light, visible light, hormones and heat. Sun spots, or solar lentigines, are more discrete flat lesions related to cumulative sun...
by Dr Kenneth Lee | Aug 22, 2026 | Skin Health Guides
Doctor-written skin guide · Johor Bahru Fractional CO2 laser creates microscopic ablative columns that resurface skin, while RF microneedling delivers radiofrequency energy through needles into the dermis with less surface ablation. Both may improve selected atrophic...
by Dr Kenneth Lee | Aug 19, 2026 | Skin Health Guides
Doctor-written skin guide · Johor Bahru Subcision is mainly considered for selected atrophic scars that are pulled down by fibrous attachments, especially rolling scars that soften when the skin is stretched. It is not a universal treatment for ice-pick scars, every...
by Dr Kenneth Lee | Aug 16, 2026 | Skin Health Guides
Doctor-written skin guide · Johor Bahru An acne scar changes the skin’s structure or texture, creating a depression or raised area. Post-inflammatory pigmentation is a flat brown, grey or darker mark left after inflammation. Red marks are another vascular colour...
by Dr Kenneth Lee | Aug 13, 2026 | Skin Health Guides
Doctor-written skin guide · Johor Bahru Rolling scars are broad depressions often linked to tethering, boxcar scars have wider defined edges, and ice-pick scars are narrow and deep. Most patients have a mixed pattern, so effective planning targets the dominant scar...
