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What Are Laser Treatments?
Laser skin treatments can improve a variety of issues from the appearance of wrinkles, texture, crepe-iness, scarring, sun damage, and melasma, to acne, redness, and rosacea. Whiles decades of sun damage and deep wrinkling cannot be erased completely, skin health and textural improvement is certainly a likely outcome.
With today’s technology advancements, there’s a type of treatment for just about any skin concern. You really don’t need to know what the treatment is called. More importantly, you should know what the laser does for your skin and, if this will help you to achieve your skincare goals.
Your successful laser skin treatments begin with having realistic expectations about what the laser can do for you.
What Laser Treatments Can Do for Your Skin
Stimulates collagen production.
By the time most of us reach the age of forty-five, we’ve lost nearly 25% of our natural collagen (losing 1% each year from age 20). Lasers penetrate the skin’s surface to trigger a process within your skin called neocollagensis, which means new production of collagen. Energy from the laser finds targets (colors) within the skin to create a very controlled injury that stimulates the body’s natural healing processes. The skin’s response stimulates collagen production. The best part, the new collagen will last for years.
Your skin gets thicker and more resilient.
Collagen production continues to be stimulated with each laser skin treatment where the outcomes are accumulative – each building upon the previous. The skin gets healthier as the collagen forms and is boosted.
Enhances the overall skin quality.
Laser skin treatments improve the appearance of scarring, pore size, and orange-peel skin. Laser-stimulated collagen helps to fill in areas of tissue loss due and smooths the skin’s texture.
Improves melasma, dark spots and dullness.
Lasers use highly concentrated, short pulsating light to seek specific targets like pigment (ink in tattoos). The broken pigment is set free into the body’s lymphatic system to be eliminated, leaving your skin clear and evenly toned.
Fights redness and rosacea.
Broken blood vessels are not functioning properly so removing them is good for the skin. Vascular concerns like diffuse redness and spider veins can be eliminated without affecting the surrounding skin structure. The heat from the laser collapses the veins so that your body can reabsorb them and reroutes your circulation. The skin tone is less red.
Which Laser Treatment Is Best for Your Skin’s Concerns?
Truly, laser skin treatments are proven pathways to beautiful healthier younger-looking skin at any age. But, just asking for a treatment because someone you know had it or recommended it is not always the safest and most effective approach for you. Because everyone’s skin is different, it’s better to think about the concerns you have for your skin. Talk with a skin and laser professional to assess your concerns and make recommendations based on need.
From high energy ablative skin resurfacing lasers that penetrate the skin and remove the damaged skin on the surface, to non-ablative skin rejuvenating laser treatments that gives your skin a camera-ready glow, these lasers work from within to trigger production of new collagen.
We only use non-ablative lasers in our practice because they consistently deliver the best results with minimal downtime and the least amount of trauma to the skin.
Different lasers address different concerns and deliver energy to create specific changes in the skin.
Wrinkles, crepe-iness, skin texture
Lasers that remodel collagen and stimulate collagen production throughout the dermis improve the appearance of wrinkles, texture, and crepe-iness. Each laser treatment sends light energy at a trillionth of a second deep into the dermis to create a controlled injury to create the healing process and collagen production. PICO Genesis FX uses a micro-lens to fractionate the light treating tiny areas at a time, leaving surrounding healthy tissue intact and unaffected, thus generating new healthy cells and destroying dead cells.
Our Lasers: PICO Second laser treatments like PICO Genesis and PICO Genesis FX. NdYag Alexandrite Laser Genesis. A series of 3 – 4 treatments spaced a month a part is our recommendation.
Spider veins, Redness and Rosacea
Green-wavelength lasers target areas of redness by sending energy to the damaged blood vessels and broken capillaries that make up spider veins.
- Our Lasers: Excel V+. This device supplies treatments for over thirty different skin concerns on all skin types, from superficial to deep vascular conditions to benign pigmented lesions.
Brown spots, age spots
Spot laser treatments are best for treating excessive pigments.
- Our Lasers: PICO Second laser treatments like Benign Pigmented Lesion spot treatment. The laser’s super-fast light penetrates the skin to shatter the pigment, leaving the surrounding skin untouched.
Acne scars
There are a couple of laser treatments that will help to reduce the appearance of acne scars.
- Our Lasers: Excel V+. PICO Genesis FX. A series of 6 – 8 treatments spaced a month apart is our recommendation.
Dull skin tone
Collagen stimulation and light remodeling of the dermis will improve the skin’s overall quality and luminosity.
- Our Laser: Laser Genesis. PICO Genesis. A series of 3 – 4 treatments spaced a month apart is our recommendation.
Maintaining healthy skin
There’s no easier way to keep the healthy glow, spot-free, even skin-toned beautiful-looking skin that laser skin treatments helped you to achieve than to keep it up. Include a laser skin treatment in your skincare regimen every three months or every six weeks.
- Our Lasers: Laser Genesis. Every three months. PICO Genesis. Six-week intervals.
It doesn’t’ matter when you start getting laser skin treatments – sooner is always better. What should matter is how well a laser skin treatment will address the concerns you have for your skin’s condition(s). Does it meet your needs, as well as your expectation?
We’ve given you some information that may help take the guesswork out of deciding which treatment might be right for you. Talk with a skin and laser professional who will guide you.
