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Fraxel treatment - what it can do
Is the result of years of ill-advised sunbathing showing on your skin? Do you need treatment for..
- Red patches of skin?
- Brown spots?
- Generally mottled skin?
- Broken capillaries?
- Slight scarring?
- light to medium wrinkling around your eyes and mouth?
Usually that would make you a first class candidate for a glycolic acid or laser peel, perhaps dermabrasion. But unless you use only the mildest of these, you will end up taking at least a week to recover - sometimes a month.
Fraxel laser treatment is possibly the fastest growing in popularity outside of Aquamid filler. It is the second most popular search term among people finding this website! I can quite understand why.
Why is Fraxel laser treatment so popular?
Well, less injury and less downtime for one. You can have treatment on Monday, wear makeup or shave on Tuesday and look great by Friday. Wrinkles can be lessened, red patches and age spots reduced and any small scars you already have are made less visible.
How does Fraxel work?
It burns away cells from the top layer of skin resulting in a healing reaction that causes new cells to grow along with new collagen.There is nothing unusual in this - its how all resurfacing lasers work, but Fraxel does this in little dots that penetrate the skin, covering up to 20% of the skin's surface, rather than burning away all of it at once. The rest of the skin is untreated during that particular session. This is why a customer will need up to five treatments in order to get the maximum benefit from Fraxel.
Because it is so gentle, it can be used on areas other than the face.
So whats the downside?
Well, there is always a new laser out. Long term results from Fraxel are yet to be determined. I have no reason to think they aren't as long lasting as thermage, or an er:YAG laser, but it hasn't been available long enough to be sure.Your skin might swell up slightly and because a little red at the healing process begins. It might also flake a little a few days after treatment.
There is also the matter of cost. It being a new treatment the people carrying it out are still trying to recover the costs of their nice new shiny lasers! Expect prices to go down in a year or so. At the time of writing Fraxel treatment costs around $5000 US compared with $2000 for similar results from traditional lasers.
Fraxel treatment - experiments
Translated into plain English from..
Utilizing fractional resurfacing in the treatment of therapy-resistant melasma. By Tannous ZS, Astner S.
Many different types of treatments have been used for treating melasma with little result.
We suggest using fractional resurfacing of the skin. We treated a 31 year old white woman who had melasma on and just under her skin. She had already tried many creams but they hadn't worked. We treated her with a Fraxel laser over her entire face, twice, and this Fraxel treatment was given three weeks apart.
We assessed the improvement six months later. There was a marked improvement in the melasma six months after the Fraxel treatment. We recommend studying the effect of Fraxel treatment on different skin types.
Sasha recommends..
If you only have a slight problem, with light wrinkling, moderate discoloration etc you might be just as happy with cheaper products and proceedures such as a home peel and skin lightener.
If these do not produce the results you require and the downtime necessary for a professional peel or full laser resurfacing treatment is not an option, then the increased costs associated with Fraxel skin treatment would be worthwhile.Of course, if you work outside your home, the reduced downtime with Fraxel would enable you to take less time off work and it might be worth the increased expenditure because of that.
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