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Hi guys, so this is Eva from Bay Harbour Med Spa. I'm answering a question from a young
teenager. The question was, um, how often should teenagers get a facial if they suffer
from acne? One thing does not fit everybody, so I can't really answer that question, I
can only answer the question in generality and I give you a perfect example why it can
never be answered and say this is how it has to be because everybody is different. So I
have a client, a patient for years, and her daughter now became fourteen and I have seen
that she wanted me to take care of her daughter so the daughter came about half-a- year ago,
for treatement , an acne facial. I treated her, her skin was very, very bad. She was
very broken out. She's fourteen, and dealing with teen hormones. And, of course, this is
a living example why it can never work the same for two people and the daughter did her
acne treatment, I gave her all of the products that she has to use. I explained how she should
do it. Um, she did it for two days. And then, as a common teenager, she stopped and she
decided to do it and she didn't do it and she never followed up and she failed to come.
So of course, she broke out horribly and of course my products wouldn't work. She didn't
do what she was supposed to do. Number one, use the products twice a day exactly as I
said, and number two, come and get more and more extractions because the skin was very
bad. So six months later, she decided her skin was so bad so her mother called me again
and said would you please see my daughter again, so I said yes. And I saw the girl ten
days ago, her skin was very bad, I cleaned her face, I abraded the obstructions, cleaned
it and I told her the products that she purchased before how she's supposed to use it and I
said, "Please do what I say." and I said, "Since your skin is so bad, I like to see
you in a week from today." She went home. She followed my advice to a T this time. Maybe
she has a boyfriend, maybe she wants to look good for her boyfriend. I don't know. However,
she followed my advice to a T. She returned the following week which is this week. She
came in and looked so much better than it looked the first time. That it was not necessary
for me to clean her face. This was two days ago. I just said, I don't know, I'm completely
amazed at what I see and I asked her what she was doing and I said I am doing exactly
what you told me and I followed for your regimen twice a day. I said amazing, come back in
two weeks. So here, the reason I gave her this example and this long story is because
there is no one set answer. To say, okay, teenagers that have acne and oily skin should
come once a week. Or should come every two weeks or should come every three weeks. It
is really individualized. Every person, every skin condition is different. Therefore I can
say, for her when I saw her, I said definitely be back next week. Because I assume with everything
going on, that I would have to see her the following week, but she came and her skin
improved so much, so I wanted it to relax. Continue to improve, and I will see her next
week. So as a rule of thumb, in generalities, if you are a teenager, if you are a parent,
and you are watching me and you want to know if you should take your child for a facial
because the skin has a lot of little bumps, and the skin is really oily and broken out
here, broken out here, broken out here, broken out on the back, broken out somewhere on the
chest; then I would suggest that you do at least two per month. You might go somewhere
and they might tell you no. Come I want to see you week after week and then perhaps every
ten days. So that can be also the case. And then there might be some that might be able
to see one every three weeks. So there is no one set rule to say how often a teenager
should be seen when they have existing acne. It can be once a week, it can be every two
weeks, it can be every three weeks, it can be every month. It really depends on each
individual condition, and individual human being. Okay, so I hope I answered it as honestly
as I could to the best of my ability. Bye guys, thank you.