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Who is laser resurfacing for?
Laser resurfacing is for people who want to treat:

• Acne scars
• Sun damage skin
• Agespots or liver spots
• Small wrinkles
• Hyperpigmented skin
• Fine to moderate wrinkles

Side effects of laser treatments

If used to aggressivly it can result in hyperpigmentation on hypopigmentation, scarring or a long recovery time.

Fraxel is a new type of laser surgery with less of the disadvantages of the other types.

How Fraxel laser works

The procedure produces targeted minuscule areas of thermal impact separated by untouched areas of healthy tissues. It does this by producing thousands of deep miniscule thermal columns of treatment inside your skin – this is known as microscopic treatment zones (see pic) This fractional type of treatment allows the surrounding skin to remains untouched (unlike other types of laser treatments), so the unaffected skin helps to heal the affected skin cells more quickly. Which in result helps promotes the skins owns natural healing process.

Advantages of Fraxel Laser

• Fast healing
• Minimul down time – some patients can return to work immediately afterwards depending on the skin type and condition
• Can apply makeup immediately after
• No oozing or crusting
• Limited risk of infection
• Minimual of risk of scaring

Disadvantages of Fraxel

• Doesn’t penetrate as deeply as other laser treatments
• Mild swelling should subside in two days or so
• Skin redness which should disappear in two days or so

Number of Faxel treatments recommended

3-5 treathments spaced over 2- 4 weeks apart depending on your skin condition. Results can be seen immediately and they are progressive

Is Fraxel Laser painful

It produces a mild prickling sensation.

How does Fraxel Laser differ from other laser treatments

Bulk ablative laser treatment vapourise the entire top layer of skin cells at a high temperature using the laser beam. When the skin heals it should be without the blemishes, scars etc that were there before. Unfortunately the side effects are long healing period and risks of hyperpigment or hypopigmentation. Other type of is non ablative laser treatments results in lower side effects e.g short healing period, but required more treatments over several months.

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