WHAT IS FRACTIONAL LASER TREATMENT?

Fractional Laser Treatment is a fractional treatment that produces thousands of deep, tiny columns in your skin, called microthermal treatment zones. The treatment is fractional in that, instead of destroying entire layers of skin tissue, the Fractional Laser makes pinpoint island injuries in the skin, leaving the surrounding tissue intact and healthy. Leaving healthy tissue makes healing faster and easier, whereas the pinpoint injury still has the desired effect of stimulating collagen in the deepest layers of the skin. As these thousands of little pinpoints heal, there is an overall contraction in the skin, reducing fine lines and making the skin appear tighter and smoother. Also, when the Fractional Laser goes over a brown, sun damaged area of skin, the pinpoint injuries heal with normal colored skin cells, erasing the brown spot forever.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF A FRACTIONAL LASER TREATMENT?

Since Fractional Laser has the impact of an ablative laser delivered with the gentleness of a non-ablative treatment, healing time is significantly accelerated. There is minimal downtime, swelling or redness. A Fractional Laser treatment does not cause, raw skin, disfiguring laser burns or the waxy skin appearance that are risks of traditional, ablative laser resurfacing treatment. Make-up can be worn immediately following the procedure. Some patients are able to return to routine activities, including work and social obligations, the next day of treatment. Others require a little more time, depending upon their skin condition and treatment. During your consultation, your Laser Specialist will take the time to help you understand how Fractional Laser Treatment will fit into your life style.

WHAT ARE LASER TREATMENTS USED FOR?

-Rosacea

-Age spots (liver spots)

-Aging hands

-Unwanted hair

-Acne scars

-Aging facial skin

-Enlarged pores

-Visible blood vessels

-Unwanted freckles

-Sun damage

-Fine lines

-Birthmarks

WHAT IS IPL REJUVENATION LASER TREATMENT?

This involves a serious of treatments that apply a broad range of light pulses to improve the effects of aging, sun damage and rosacea.

HOW DOES LASER HAIR REMOVAL WORK?

The laser targets melanin, the pigment located in the hair follicle and shaft. The energy of the laser is absorbed by the darker cells of the follicle, heating and damaging it. This damage causes permanent destruction of many of the hair follicles. The energy passes through the lighter skin cells without harming them.

IS THE HAIR REMOVAL PERMANENT?

Yes, in most cases it is. The majority of people need 4-6 treatments for permanent hair reduction. Hair grows in cycles and the laser can only destroy active follicles. It cannot destroy the hair follicles that are lying dormant below the surface of the skin since these dormant follicles contain little pigment. Allowing the dormant follicles to go into their active stage and become susceptible to the laser, we schedule Laser Hair Removal visits 4 to 6 weeks apart.