Why rebound risk comes first on this site
Most pigment pages begin with what treatment can achieve. This one begins with what treatment can provoke, because with melasma that is the finding that decides whether treatment is worthwhile. Melasma-prone skin produces more pigment in response to inflammation, and both a laser and a peel create inflammation deliberately. The result of ignoring that is a darker, more stubborn area, and it is a common outcome rather than a rare accident.
Why neither route is presented as controlling melasma
A comparison page usually ends by naming one option as the answer. Here the honest position is that neither route reliably controls a condition driven by sun exposure, hormones and genetic tendency. Both can lighten pigment for a period. Both are followed by maintenance. The two columns carry the same weight, and each is given the same honesty about what it can provoke as well as what it can clear.
How it is reviewed
Content is medically reviewed by Yongbo Jia, MD, Deputy Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center and head of dermatology at Chongqing West District Hospital, and the review date appears on every article. The site names no drug brand and no device brand, quotes no dosage, no wavelength and no price, guarantees no outcome, and states plainly that melasma recurs and that daily sun protection carries more of the result than either procedure.
What no website can do
It cannot tell you whether the pigment on your face is melasma, whether it is active, how reactive your skin is, or whether the correct advice is not to treat it at all. Those answers require an examination, and often a test spot and a period of observation. Read this site to arrive at that appointment able to ask sharper questions, not to arrive at a conclusion without it.