We are looking forward to adding a new and exciting CO2 laser treatment in Jan of 2009. CO2 laser resurfacing has long been the gold standard of skin resurfacing. Unfortunately, the recovery down time after treatment was unacceptable for most people. Generally recipients of this treatment would have a red swollen and weeping face for a week followed by up to a month of dramatic facial redness. Another problem commonly experienced with full CO2 lasers is the line of demarcation between the treated and untreated areas.
A "fractionated" CO2 laser takes the same effective laser energy and divides the laser beam into manageable treatment partitions or "fractions". Instead of covering the treatment area with a brush stroke it covers the treatment area with a series of closely spaced dots. This allows for the benefits of wrinkle reduction, skin tightening and skin resurfacing without the prolonged down time. A client typically has only 3-7 days of redness and peeling rather than 3-4 weeks.
For some individuals, 3-7 days of downtime may not be acceptable or even needed. This is where our Affirm collagen building laser will continue to fill an important treatment modality. The Affirm laser works in the deeper tissues of the dermis to stimulate collagen and elastin growth. Similar wrinkle reduction and skin tightening results can eventually be achieved, with down times of only 1-2 days. The trade-off is that the Affirm generally takes several treatments to achieve similar results to a single fractionated CO2 laser treatment.
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