Fraxel Skin Therapy - Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX

Fraxel Skin Therapy - Dallas/Ft. Worth

What is Fraxel® Laser Treatment?

Fraxel® Laser Treatment is a "fractional" treatment that produces thousands of deep, tiny columns in your skin, called microthermal treatment zones. The treatment is "fractional" in that, instead of destroying entire layers of skin tissue, the Fraxel makes pinpoint island injuries in the skin, leaving the surrounding tissue intact and healthy. Leaving healthy tissue makes healing faster and easier, whereas the pinpoint injury still has the desired effect of stimulating collagen in the deepest layers of the skin. As these thousands of little pinpoints heal, there is an overall contraction in the skin, reducing fine lines and making the skin appear tighter and smoother. Also, when the Fraxel goes over a brown, sun damaged area of skin, the pinpoint injuries heal with normal colored skin cells, erasing the brown spot forever.

How is Fraxel different from other laser treatments?

Until Fraxel, there were two main types of light based skin
improvement treatments. Ablative laser treatment, (which means the vaporization of a layer of skin using laser energy), is very effective but has significant side effects and requires a lengthy healing period. Intense pulsed light or photofacial treatments, being non-ablative, have little or no side effects and almost no healing time. This is good, but these treatments require numerous sessions over many months and have limited results at best. Fraxel treatments offer the effectiveness of ablative treatment without the downtime and side effects.

How Does Fraxel Work?

Fraxel® Laser Treatment is designed to improve aging and sun damaged skin by targeting portions of specific damaged tissue. By creating microscopic "wounds" within the targeted areas, Fraxel® Laser treatments trigger the body's natural healing process, accelerating the production of collagen and new, healthy skin cells.

What About Acne Scars?

Most dermatologist consider Fraxel, especially now that they have the Fraxel SR1500, the best treatment currently available to improve the appearance of acne scars. The Fraxel SR1500 is an upgraded version of the original Fraxel laser that provides stronger, more effective treatment with less pain. Older technology, like Smoothbeam or CO2 laser resurfacing, has an unacceptable amount of pain, downtime and risk. Fraxel minimization of acne scars happens the same way that the laser improves the appearance of sun damaged skin. The pinpoint injuries replace depressed and discolored scar tissue with normal skin. Over 3 to 5 treatment sessions,  have seen even deep ice pick scars smooth out and disappear.

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