Fraxel

Fraxel Laser Treatment

The most effective no-down-time laser treatment
available for wrinkles, brown spots and anti-aging

Fraxel Laser Treatment is a revolutionary way to reverse the signs of aging! Think of your skin as a family portrait or digital photograph in need of high-quality restoration or touch up.

Just as a damaged painting is delicately restored one small area at a time, or a photographic image is altered, pixel by pixel, Fraxel Laser Treatment improves your appearance by affecting only a fraction of your skin at a time with thousands of tiny microscopic laser spots.

Turn Back the Clock on Aging

After your very first Fraxel Laser Treatment, you will begin to feel the difference in your skin, as it gradually becomes softer, smoother and fresher. Fine lines around your eyes will noticeably fade. So will uneven coloring and the brown spots caused by aging and sun exposure.

After several treatments, your friends and family will marvel at how youthful and healthy your skin looks. The results are so discreet and natural that only you and your doctor will know you've had a laser surgical procedure.

Fraxel Laser for Melasma

Using the Fraxel laser's unique approach of using millions of microscopic thermal spots to gently resurface only portions of skin at a time; we now have the ability to penetrate deep enough into the skin to eliminate the skin cells that cause melasma while protecting the skin’s outer layer.

FDA clearances for the Fraxel laser include skin resurfacing, treatment of sun damaged skin, acne scars and melasma. For melasma, Fraxel laser treatments are performed monthly for a three or four month period. We generally prescribe a topical lightening agent such as TriLuma for a few weeks prior to the Fraxel treatment and continue it after the treatment. A few days of downtime are generally required after Fraxel. Sun avoidance and the use of a high grade uva and uvb sun block is essential at all times.

Fraxel is a unique fractional laser resurfacing technology that leaves the surrounding tissue unaffected and intact. Fractional laser treatments with the FRAXEL™ laser allows your skin to heal much faster than if the entire skin surface was treated at once. FRAXEL™ treatments eliminate sun spots and age spots, improves uneven pigmentation and melasma, and improves wrinkles, Fraxel Stretch Mark treatment , and acne scars with minimal downtime. The FRAXEL™ laser penetrates deeply into the skin dermis with thousands of tiny microthermal treatment zones. Come in for a complimentary consultation to see if Fraxel Laser Treatments will help you.

Fraxel Laser Treatment : Look Great Today with Fraxel Laser Treatment!

Fraxel Improves acne scars hypertrophic scars and any other superficial scars
Fraxel Rejuvenates your skin
Fraxel Reduces fine wrinkles
Fraxel Reduces stretch marks
Fraxel Rejuvenates sun-damaged skin on your face, neck and shoulders
Reduce age spots on the face
Reduce blotchy skin coloring
Improve fine to moderate lines around eyes, forehead, and lips
Reduce hyperpigmentation and improve melasma
Fractional Laser Resurfacing Achieves Dramatic Improvement
Fraxel Laser Receives FDA approval for Melasma
Physicians Report Fractional Laser Resurfacing Achieves Dramatic Improvement

Fraxel Laser Treatment - What it can do for you

Until now, two varieties of laser treatment have been available for cosmetic enhancement-ablative and non-ablative. Traditional ablative, which literally means vaporization at a very high temperature, are very effective at destroying unwanted tissue but may have significant side-effects and require a lengthy healing period. Non-fractional non-ablative, on the other hand, have very few side-effects and require almost no healing time, but may involve numerous treatments over many months to achieve only modest results.

At long last, a laser with the potency of ablative treatments and the gentle safety of non-ablative lasers received clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration to treat a variety of important cosmetic conditions.

Fraxel® Laser Treatment is designed to target aging and damaged skin by creating microscopic "wounds" within the targeted areas that penetrate well beneath the skin's outermost layer. In this way, Fraxel® Laser treatments trigger the body's own natural production of new collagen and skin cells. And because Fraxel® Laser Treatment combines the impact of ablative lasers with the gentleness of non-ablative lasers, healing occurs so quickly that there is very little downtime for patients.

After several years of studies and mounting evidence of the Fraxel® Laser's safety and effectiveness, the FDA has cleared this unique new laser to treat the following conditions:

ACNE SCARS

Anyone double-burdened with watching their teenage acne turn into adult acne scars knows the profound devastation this circumstance can have on self-esteem and life-outlook. Yet, every bit as profound is the utter transformation – physical and emotional – awaiting those who take advantage of a revolutionary change recently underway in cosmetic health.

Acne scars form wherever acne advances to the point of injuring our tissue. These injuries arise as an inflammatory response to sebaceous follicles becoming plugged with oils, bacteria and dead cells. The result is the formation of a scar – that discolored fibrous tissue with abnormal collagen function that replaces our healthy skin. Successful treatment of a scar requires both the removal of damaged epidermal tissue and the stimulation of new collagen to improve the region's tone and texture.

Traditional approaches – topical agents, abrasion therapies, surgery and conventional lasers – either achieve only moderate results, or else destroy unacceptable amounts of healthy tissue along with the scar. The more effective techniques can also require a great deal of recovery time.

A monumental breakthrough came only recently when the FDA cleared Fraxel® Laser Treatment for acne scars after studies showed that the new laser could be far more effective than traditional therapies at both removing damaged tissue and inducing the formation of new collagen.

Age Spots/Brown Spots

Although the appearance of age spots might seem like an obvious indication of aging skin, they are instead our body's attempt to protect itself from sun exposure by overproducing melanin. Also called liver spots or sun spots, age spots are blemishes that range in color from dark yellow to black and locate themselves in exposed areas of the body, such as the face, hands, shoulders, arms or forehead.

Only occasionally do age spots pose a serious medical risk. They sometimes obscure detection of skin cancer, and, rarely, can indicate accumulated wastes or a bodily dysfunction.

Even when harmless, these blotchy brownish patches pose a tough cosmetic challenge that can make us look and feel much older than our years.

Conventional strategies for eliminating age spots include cryotherapy, acid washes, bleaches, pulsed light or traditional laser treatment. Too often such techniques will fade but not completely remove age spots.

The real breakthrough came recently when the FDA cleared Fraxel Laser Treatment® for age spots after studies showed that the new laser could be highly effective.

Melasma (Mask of Pregnancy)

Melasma is a skin condition in which patches of brown or tan discoloration appear on the forehead, cheeks, lips, nose or forearms as a result of the body’s sudden overproduction of pigment. Sometimes called the "mask of pregnancy," melasma can afflict anyone, but is most often triggered in women—especially during the hormonal fluctuations associated with pregnancy, oral contraceptive use or hormone replacement therapy.

Melasma affects an estimated six million people in the US alone. Though not dangerous, the condition can cause embarrassment and undermine self-confidence.

Conventional remedies for melasma include enzyme inhibitors, depigmenting agents, bleaches, steroids, pulsed light, acid facial peels and aggressive dermabrasion techniques. Seldom are such strategies effective. Traditional laser treatments can also produce lackluster results. No wonder so many people give up and simply hide themselves behind heavy makeup.

A breakthrough finally came when the FDA cleared Fraxel® Laser Treatment for melasma after studies showed that the new laser could be highly effective even in cases where traditional therapies had failed.

Wrinkles Around The Eyes

Wrinkles around the eyes, often called crow's feet, are categorized by doctors as dynamic wrinkles because they develop largely from years of contracting the muscles that display our emotions when we smile, squint, deeply consider, show surprise or laugh. If you've developed such wrinkles yourself, we're happy to hear that life has dealt you so many rich emotional experiences! Now, about those wrinkles.

There are countless cosmetic strategies for reducing crow's feet-including acid peels, injectable fillers, collagen, dermabrasion or traditional laser treatment. These techniques can achieve moderately successful results for many patients.

The real breakthrough came recently when the FDA approved Fraxel® Laser Treatment for wrinkles around the eyes after studies showed that the new laser could be far more effective than traditional therapies.

Fraxel Laser Treatments

As a research dermatologist, Dr. Fitzpatrick says he's impressed with current clinical studies. "The results we are able to achieve in healing and repairing the skin with the Fraxel treatment, without causing damage, are unlike anything I've ever seen before."

Fraxel laser treatments can significantly improve stretch marks. Fraxel can safely be used on any part of your body for fast, safe and effective stretch mark removal.

Clinical studies suggest that 4-6 FRAXEL™ treatments spaced about three - six weeks apart produce a gradual remodeling of dermal matrix components, firming collagen and elastin. A topical anesthetic is applied aprox 60 minutes prior to your Fraxel treatment. Fraxel laser treatments are a great way to make your skin look young again and make you feel young again.