Fractional Skin Resurfacing
Rejuvenation You Can See and Feel -- With Minimal Downtime

Lasers are being updated and refined all the time. Fractional technology is the most recent improvement in this miraculous field, and it's so far ahead of older lasers that it's quickly becoming the new gold standard for women in need of dermal restructuring.

Although it's new, Fraxel technology is far from unproven. We've seen amazing results with our Fraxel laser. The results are comprehensive and long-lasting, and here's the bonus - it's actually gentler than the lasers of yesteryear.

What's Fractional Technology?
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 altered pixel by pixel, Fractional Laser Treatment improves your skin a fraction at a time with thousands of tiny microscopic laser spots.

How Fractional Laser Treatments Work
Fractional Laser Treatments produce thousands of tiny but deep columns of infrared light called microthermal treatment zones. These columns penetrate deep into the dermis, stimulating the body's production of collagen and elastin.

Just as important, though, are the areas of skin the fractional laser leaves untouched.

Fractional Treatment Makes For Faster Healing
For every microthermal zone the laser targets and treats intensively, it leaves the surrounding tissue unaffected and intact. This "fractional" treatment allows the skin to heal much faster than if the entire area were treated at once. The treated areas stimulate the body's natural healing process to create new, healthy tighter tissue to replace skin imperfections.

How is fractional technology different from other laser treatments?
Until the fractional approach was developed, there were two types of available laser treatments.

1. Ablative laser treatment, which literally means to vaporize at very high temperature. This is effective but it has significant side effects. It also requires a lengthy healing period.
   
   
2. Non-ablative laser treatment, which has little or no side effects and almost no healing time. However, it requires numerous treatments over many months and has limited results at best.
   

Fractional treatments offer the effectiveness of ablative treatments with the benefits of the gentler, non-ablative lasers.



How many treatments will I need?

• 3 to 5 sessions, spaced about 2 to 4 weeks apart (depending upon your condition and schedule, we may choose to space treatment sessions even further apart.
• Results are immediate and progressive.
• Optimal improvement is usually visible in about 2 to 3 months.

This 3-month time frame and treatment structure allows for complete healing and replacement of damaged tissue with new collagen and elastin.

How are Fractional Laser Treatments performed?
To prepare your skin for treatment, it will be cleansed. We will apply the handpiece directly to your clean skin.

Is Fractional Laser Treatment painful? Most patients describe the treatment as having a "prickling" sensation. The air cooling feature of the handpiece alleviates most discomfort. The handpiece uses a strong built-in cooling technology that protects the stratum corneum, minimizes discomfort, and enables practical use of high energies without anesthetic