Redness and swelling after ablative CO2 laser treatment can persist for weeks, with some individuals experiencing redness for months.

“Um, a patient who's going to have an ablative CO2 laser, which I would say is sort of the relative gold standard for, um, an ablative laser is going to have 7 to 10 days of requiring an occlusive dressing with, you know, some kind of ointment. Um, so that's that's, you know, some real downtime there. Um and then in weeks um from from weeks one to three, their skin will be transitioning and epithelializing. They'll start to return to normal activities, but they'll still scare children at a at a grocery store for 3 weeks because they'll be red, a lot of redness and swelling still.”