- this is a video i've beenwaiting to do for years. you guys, possibly, have been following me for the two three yearsthat we were tracking me going through accutane, changingmy diet, trying all these different medications andstuff to get rid of my acne. got rid of it finally. now we're finally goingto deal with the scars that are left over. so this morning i tool a clip of me under
an overhead lighting. that way, you can see thescars and their full effect. that's when they're the worst,is when you have the light right over your head. so this is exactly what my face was looking like before this. and this video was recordedyesterday, so you will not be able to see the after, like,of my skin looking smoother. but you're gonna see myface all bloodied up.
we're here in avalon laser in la hoya. and we're about to go in there. we're gonna talk to dr. tirgari. he's gonna walk you guys through it. then you guys can see me taking the actual surgical procedure. i'm excited. let's get started. (pleasant music) - i'm doctor reza tirgari.
i'm the medical director and the founder of avalon laser. we're a medical spa withoffices in downtown san diego, and in carlsbad, andwe specialize in making people look better. and i understand that ourgood friend, brian, is gonna have some questionsfor me, which i'm gonna be happy to answer foryou guys today as well. dermapen is a micro-needling device.
it's the first of itskind, it's one of the best of its kind, and itbasically works by using a micro-needle system wherethere's about, array of needles which go into the skin at about 3000 rpm. basically, you have aseries of titanium needles that enter the skin atpre-determined depths. we can adjust this on thefly during the treatment. so, for a large, meatierarea, for example, on the body or on the cheek, ifwe're treating the face,
we can go deeper and we can target much deeper scars this way. for narrower skin areas,such as on the nose, we can adjust the needle depth so itdoesn't necessarily go as far, so we can get the exact same results on different body areas,and magnify the results as much as possible. we're applying a combinationof different anesthetics. some are gonna be muchmore rapid acting, and
some are gonna be much more longer acting. this is a proprietary creamthat is developed for us, for us only. and what it tends to dois give people the best of both worlds. - okay, so now we've beensitting here for about 15 minutes with the numbing cream onmy face, and i can feel it. like, my whole face, itkinda feels like, you know, when you take pre-workout(mumbles) alanine, and you start
feeling your delts and yourbiceps and skin start crawling, a little bit, like(clicks) little pin pricks. that's what i'm feeling on my face. so i'm pretty sure it's super numb. if i had the ability toright now, i'd slap my face, test it out; but i,probably shouldn't touch it. my lips are super, super numb. we just took all thenumbing cream off my face, and now i believe we areready to get started.
i'm nervous, but pretty excited. (dermapen whirs) - [nurse] you'll feel avibration a little bit. - back in the days, when manypractitioners were working out the best treatments, whatwe had to do was choose between downtime versus results. part of the issues withlasers is that in order to get to the depth necessary tocause that controlled injury, there is also a risk ofcausing complications or
increasing downtime, orincreasing the risk of sun damage. now, let me start with the sun damage. in southern california,where the sun is pretty much ubiquitous, when you are outin the sun, there is always a risk after laser treatmentsthat any exposure to the sun can cause additional skin harm. the skin is very, very vulnerableafter laser treatments. and because that processof recovery can be impeded by uv radiation, there'salways a risk that after any
laser treatment, any exposureto sun, which is very difficult to avoid insouthern california, can cause complications such as burns,such as scarring, such as hyperpigmentation, whichis very common, especially in people of color. dermapen avoids many of those things. instead of doing oneaggressive laser treatment, and trying to get to thedepth necessary to cause the skin changes that willcause the skin to remodel
and repair itself, and fixthe scars, dermapen breaks it down into bite-sized chunks. so by doing it at a pre-determinedinterval; most commonly one month apart, the dermapensystem allows us to go and treat the scar insmaller bite-sized chunks, which will a, reduce thecomplications, and b, reduce the downtime. so people can go abouttheir normal activities, and not take a full weekor two off, away from
their normal activitiesthat would be required with, for example, laser treatment. - [nurse] you doing okay? - yeah. okay. it hurts a little bit,but it's not that bad. it kinda feels like if you'reskin was getting pinched by like, a shaver. like, if you're using a beard shaver. - many people who getthe dermapen treatments
tend to be younger,active, healthy people, who may have had acne youngerin life, and understandably, they wanna go back totheir normal activities, including working out. one other advantage ofdermapen compared to many laser treatments, is becausethe treatments are in smaller, bite-sized chunks,and because the degree of inflammation is muchmore controlled and precise, you don't have the prolongedinflammation and swelling
that occurs with lasertreatments, following which, any kind of sweatingor activity can really irritate the skin. after dermapen treatments, wefind that people can go back to activities such as workingout, swimming, running, within a matter of only a few days. in some cases, i would evenrecommend only, maybe two days, if they're doing a dermapentreatment, as opposed to a laser, which may havethem out of commission for
even a week or two afterwards. sweating can oftentimes irritate the skin. even with the best controlledprotection, it's very difficult to avoid the skinfrom enduring the effects of sweat and, of course,redness and inflammation, which can compound theinflammation that we're trying to induce that causes healing. for the reasons that we talkedabout, dermapen, we found, is much better tolerated,especially in younger, athletic
people, who wanna get rid ofacne scars safely, effectively, with a minimum downtime. how are you doing with that? - this one's a little bitmore painful, but still good. - all this inflammation iscausing the skin to now repair, and renew, and tighten,and fix those scars. it's important to notethat the degree of scars is what's going to determinethe number of treatments that are required.
the more aggressivelysomebody has scarred, the more number of treatments it's gonna take. that's gonna vary from person to person. but looking at brian rightnow, it looks like he just got, a little extra time in the tanning bed. for all intents and purposes. - my face is super hot, whichis making me really hot, which is making my armpits sweat. which is sweet.
(laughs) so when you guys get thistreatment done, you're not crying. it's just your eyes watering. that's what you gottatell everyone. (laughs) - in this case, i think,after a couple of days, brian could, prettymuch, be back at the gym doing pretty much any exercise. importantly, you wannaavoid steam rooms and saunas and all those things whichcan also cause additional
inflammation, that can actuallydo more harm than good. - it was this morning. - what was it? what did you choose? - i hit chest and triceps, man. - that's what i would do. - i forced a littleoverhead movement in there, and it didn't hurt too bad, man. it wasn't bad.
- well, brian is gonnabe a fantastic patient. we love having him here,and i think we're gonna really have a good time treating him, and seeing his results. i think you're gonna findover time, with a series of treatments, which mayvary from person to person, the dermapen treatment isgonna give fantastic results. and i'm really excited tosee how things go for brian. - all right, we justgot out of the surgery.
this is what my face is looking like. you can see, it's almostlike a tan line of exactly where she went to andwhere she did not go to. it's crazy; looks like ihave raccoon eyes, like i've been out in the sun for too long. but that's what it's looking like. i feel so weird. my whole face is numb, like ijust got out of the dentist, but like, they missed my mouthentirely and just spread it
all over my face. it felt like, just weirdas hell getting that, because i've never gottenany sort of cosmetic surgery or anything like that. so it was just weird to be in an office. i feel like i was in doctor90210, but i feel great. like, i feel like thisis gonna be good for me. it wasn't too bad. it was a little bit painful,you know, i wanna update
you guys on the pain. for the most part, becauseof the numbing, it was mostly just vibration andthen just like a little bit of like, i feel like, abeard trimmer, you know? if you're using a beard trimmer. it kinda nipped you a little bit. that's kinda what it feltlike, over, and over, and over, and over. but there were certain partson my face where she didn't
quite hit the numbing,like right around the back of my chin here. and when she hit thosespots with the needles, because it wasn't numb, ikind feel what it truly was supposed to feel like without any numbing. it is pretty painful, man. it's pretty much exactly likegetting a tattoo on your face. that was amazing. so here's what i'mlooking like afterwards.
i got a big old tomato face. i can't show you guys what ilook like multiple days yet afterwards, but we'll domultiple, multiple episodes on this, so make sure you keep in tune. but now i'm just gonnafollow myself along for the next couple hours and explainto you how i'm feeling and what's going on today. so before i get to thecar, lp has pokemon go out, and he says there's a pokemon over there.
so we're gonna go get thepokemon for him before we go home. - i really don't know what it is. i don't know if it's apokemon, or what it is. - is it that box right there? - it's that box right there. - this is so random. i love this. so lp, lp just got his item,i guess he got a module. i don't really know how anyof this stuff works yet.
but it's funny how manypeople probably have stopped at this electric box infront of this restaurant down in san diego. all right, let's go home. i do need to eat really bad. but first, i'm gonnasnapchat a bunch of funny tomato face snap chats, sothat's gonna be really funny seeing all the replies. all right, 2:17 (mumbles), taz,both of them just texted me.
but what i'm going (mumbles)... what i'm doing right now is i'm making a little bit of lunch. so what i have is a halfspaghetti squash, cut right in half, and i cooked this forseven minutes in the microwave, and if you never seenspaghetti squash before, basically once you cookit, you can just use a fork and kinda slap it down likethis, and what happens... i'm only doing it withone hand, so it's hard.
but what happens is youget kind of like noodles, and they're super low incalories, high in fiber, so it's a dope way toget like, a low calorie, high volume meal in. and that is gonna be thespaghetti noodle base, and then this is gonnabe like, the dish itself. so what i got here is abunch of spinach on top. i got textured vegetable or soy protein. so i have a half cup of that.
if you guys haven't lookedinto that yet, you should look into that. it's dope, high protein. then i got an onion that i cut in half. i have a yellow bell pepper,and i have some mushrooms, and this is going to be mixedwith a little tomato sauce and then all of it'sgonna go in this bowl, so let's see what it looks like right now. and that is what we are looking like.
got the little yellow noodlesright there, with the red... this actually looks really aesthetic. it looks like a chunkyitalian sauce or whatever. so what i'm doing is i'm putting on a little nutritional flakes. i use these kind oflike my parmesan cheese. like a little topping. but what nutritional yeastdoes, is it adds b12, protein, and fiber.
it is a super food, ifyou wanna use that term. but yeah, so here's my lunch. i'm super stoked about it. here's my current situation. i've got this big ass fan, i'vegot this cute little girl's mini fan right here. both pointing at me whilei'm editing this video, so i don't sweat. this is what i'm looking likeabout three hours afterwards.
i've been editing the videosince right after i got home. my face is still, it stings in a way. it feels like a sun burn. it feels like a bad sunburnthat's just kinda like has that heat thing going on with it. and after i turn the fan offi'm starting to already sweat again, but that's what we're looking like. anyways, my friends, i wasso amped to bring you guys on this journey with me.
i was so amped to just get itdone, because you guys know, it's been a very long time coming. been going through this wholeseries of dealing with acne, getting it cleared up,and then all the semantics of actually like, findingout how to get the surgery scheduled, and videotaped and everything. and now it's finally done. we're gone through the first treatment. i'm going through three treatments.
i will be updating youguys with each treatment, so make sure you subscribeso you can see the updates with how my face looks,the before, the afters with the acne scar surgery,and just general tips and other things that comealong with the surgery and other acne videosthat i come out with. but, that brings us tothe end of this video. a huge, huge, huge thankyou to doctor tirgari for allowing me to bring thecamera in, and actually taking
the time out of his dayto make sure he was there for the procedure, so hecould give you all that extra information and talk to you guys. i hope there was a lot ofquestions answered for you. i hope you kinda have abetter, more clear idea of what the dermapen is, andwhether or not it's the right thing for you. make sure that you guys followme on snapchat; brianturner. make sure you follow me oninstagram; thicksolidtight.
make sure you hit the thumbsup button on this video. make sure you leave a comment. let me know what you thought below. and subscribe if you'renot subscribed already. (mumbles) ct! - lift heavy, or die mirin. (rap music)
