Laser Skin Resurfacing

The technique of laser skin resurfacing involves laser surgery where molecular bonds are dissolved. The process aids in the treatment of solar lentigenes, wrinkles, scars caused by sun damge, telangiectasias and actinic keratosis.

Laser skin resurfacing could be combined with the liposuction procedure. How? When a liposuction is done to remove any excess fat from the area of the chin or jaw, the skin on those areas would appear wrinkled. Through laser skin resurfacing, the skin gets smoothed and tightened.

Currently, it is more common to use laser resurfacing using a fractional laser. In this process, tiny laser points are utilized to deliver laser onto the skin's surface. These thousand laser pinpoints are used on the body per square inch skin area resulting in healthy looking skin in between the areas allowing quick healing.

Currently, the technologically advanced laser resurfacing is Erbium Fractional and CO2 fractional. These versions have the ability to remove skin in a precise manner per layer via the use of pulsating short light energy or light beams delivered in a scan pattern to specifically remove skin layers with very minimal damage to its surrounding skin structures.

Believe it or not, skin resurfacing could also be performed not with laser but with plasma. This treatment could also help produce new skin at the most fundamental level. However, it needs further evidence and more independently funded studies.

Another laser skin resurfacing treatment is fractional photothermolysis. There are certain doctors which claim that this type of treatment offer the same results as CO2 laser resurfacing with no risk of scars. However, there were observed acneiform eruptions as well as outbreaks of the herpes simplex virus.

Compared to other dermatological procedures, a laser skin resurfacing treatment allows the surgeon to specially customize the procedure not just for every patient but to ever facial area.

However, CO2 laser resurfacing has also shown a heightened risk of pigmentation as well as scarring. This is basically due to increased degrees of coagulation which is a natural occurrence in CO2 wavelength.