Photoderm - Is it ok to treat different areas with different settings?

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my cheeks havetypical cea. above my lip doesn't have cea at all, It is

some sort of a seb derm/perioral derm/eczema/acne combo. It hurts, looks gross,

peels, burns, etc but Never flushes. I have my next Photoderm treatment

tomorrow (treatment #5) and was wondering what would happen if I asked the nurse

to treat my cheeks etc with the deeper setting as planned, but have her go all

the way down to the shallowest setting on my upper lip? The first 1 or 2

treatments had the largest impact on my lip, and since then all the other

treatments have been ineffective and its gone back to normal. This makes sense

as the problem appears to be right on the surface (dry skin, discolored skin,

but no flushing). Dr Nase says in his book that Perioral Dermatitis responds

really well to Photoderm (even when it doesn't respond to anything else, like

whatever is on my lip). So I'm thinking it might be beneficial to do the

remaining four treatments all at the shallowest setting on my upper lip. Does

this sound like it might be most beneficial for that area?

What I'm most concerned about with this idea, is Dr Nase constantly stresses

the importance of treating the entire face w/Photoderm for it to be effective.

Will treating my upper lip only with the shallow filters make it like I'm not

really treating the entire face, and therefore affect the results I see

everywhere else? I plan to ask the nurse tomorrow but she doesn't believe its

important to treat the whole face in the first place, and she only treats my

whole face because I asked her to.

Thanks as always

Adam