06/09/2026
Same CO2 laser, two patients, completely different results. The settings conversation is where it gets decided.
Three questions worth bringing to a CO2 consult, beyond what Nurse Nina walks through in the video:
1. What density and depth are you using on me? They do different things. The combination depends on whether you’re treating texture, scars, or pigmentation, and on your skin type. Same machine, different outcome.
2. Am I keloid-prone? Nurse Nina flags this for a reason. CO2 works by triggering a controlled wound-healing response, which is the same pathway that produces keloids. If you scar that way, CO2 is not the call.
3. What is my prep and recovery skincare? Most of the outcome lives in the four weeks before and the 90 days after. If a clinic doesn’t hand you a written protocol for both, the result won’t hold the way it should.
Save this before your CO2 consult.