Over the years, your skin experiences several changes. We all eventually experience some of the earliest signs of aging due to exposure to the sun and wind, harsh skin care products, repeated facial expressions, and the impact of gravity.
This includes a harsh or dull texture, wrinkles, fine lines, and brown spots. Although aging cannot be stopped, you can regain your young shine with noninvasive skin care procedures like laser skin resurfacing!
This resurfacing process may help your skin appear younger and healthier if blotches, scars, wrinkles, or lines have appeared on your face due to aging, acne, or excessive sun exposure.
Scroll down to learn more about laser skin resurfacing.
Who Is a Good Candidate for Laser Skin Resurfacing?
People with fine lines, wrinkles, acne scars, or non-responsive skin post-facelift may be suitable candidates for laser skin resurfacing. You may also need this procedure if you have:
- Warts
- Liver spots or age spots
- Birthmarks
- Sun-damaged skin
- Enlarged oil glands on your nose
- Birthmarks like linear epidermal nevi
Laser resurfacing might not be a good choice for you if you have:
- Sagging skin
- Deep wrinkles
- Active acne
- Pregnant or breastfeeding
- Weakened immune system
- Deeper skin tone
How can laser resurfacing help You?
If collagen is the key to strong, healthy skin, then promoting collagen production at its source is ideal for getting younger-looking skin! To encourage the development of new collagen, laser skin resurfacing can target and heat deeper layers of skin using precise laser light wavelengths. Simultaneously, dead skin cells are removed from the skin’s outermost layer, exposing smoother skin underneath. Collagen synthesis and new cell creation can address skin issues, from superficial discolorations to more profound wrinkles.
Types of Laser Resurfacing
CO2 Laser Resurfacing
This method has been utilized for years to address various skin issues such as wrinkles, scars, warts, and enlarged oil glands on the nose. The most recent CO2 laser resurfacing technique, fractionated CO2, removes thin skin layers with little thermal damage by using continuous light beams or extremely brief pulsed light energy, often called ultrapure, applied in a scanning pattern. It can take up to two weeks to recover.
Erbium Laser Resurfacing
Erbium laser resurfacing eliminates moderately deep and surface-level wrinkles and creases from the hands, face, neck, or chest. It has the advantage of causing less damage to the surrounding tissue. Your recuperation period should be shorter than with CO2 laser resurfacing because this laser has fewer adverse effects, including bruising, redness, and swelling. Recovery can sometimes be completed in as little as one week. Ask your doctor how long you should expect to recuperate.
Pulse-Dye Lasers
Pulsed-dye lasers, or vascular lasers, address skin issues involving blood vessels. This is a great choice if you suffer from rosacea, broken capillaries, hyperpigmentation, or reduced redness. Lasers, which are non-ablative and use concentrated yellow light, heat the skin to absorb pigments.
Fractional Lasers
Fractional lasers target a specific portion of the skin at a time. This option can remove wrinkles, acne scars, hyperpigmentation, and various age-related imperfections. To minimize downtime, the laser energy is divided into thousands of small beams that only treat a portion of the surrounding skin. Both ablative and non-ablative fractional lasers are possible.
IPL (intense pulsed light)
While technically not lasers, IPL treatments are commonly used to address skin issues similar to those of lasers. This method targets a certain color in your skin by using light energy. In addition to removing unwanted hair can help treat scars, sun damage, stretch marks, acne, rosacea, birthmarks, and hyperpigmentation.
