Fraxel Laser Treatments™

Fraxel treatment is a safe, non-invasive procedure that allows you to rediscover the fresh, healthy skin of your youth.

Our newest laser stimulates the body’s own natural healing process replacing damaged skin with fresh, glowing, healthy skin, removing years from your appearance. Since your skin is unique, our staff can develop a Fraxel treatment plan tailored to your skin’s individual needs.

Fraxel Benefits:

• Smoother, fresher looking skin
• Improved tone, texture and pore size
• Smooth wrinkles around the eye
• Improved appearance of acne scars, surgical scars and stretch marks
• Reduce unwanted brown spots
• Rejuvenate your neck, chest and hand

Fraxel® laser treatment produces tiny, microscopic sites of thermal impact separated by areas of unaffected, healthy tissue. Each treated spot, called a MicroThermal Zone, stimulates the body's own natural production of new collagen in the dermis and eliminates old epidermal pigmented cells on the skin's surface. The spared healthy tissue contains viable cells that promote rapid healing of the outer skin layers. Since only 20% of the skin is treated by the Fraxel® laser on each visit, there is speedy healing and minimal downtime. Fraxel® laser smoothes fine lines and wrinkles on the face, including around the eyes. It reduces sun damage, improves texture and tone of the skin, and fades brown spots, sun spots and pigmentation on the face, neck, chest, back, forearms and hands. Fraxel® laser treatment results in fresh, healthy skin and a renewed sense of confidence. All skin types benefit from treatment.

What Fraxel Laser treats:

Wrinkles. As you age, your skin thins, droops and loses its elasticity, which can lead to wrinkles. Wrinkles on the face and neck can also result from years of smiling, laughing and squinting – all of which involves the contraction of muscles. The skin around your eyes is especially prone to wrinkles because it’s more delicate than other areas of the body and tends to age much more rapidly.

Age Spots or Sun Spots

Age spots, also known as sunspots or photodamage, are flat, uneven, dark patches on areas of the body regularly exposed to the sun – such as the face, neck, chest, hands and arms. These spots form when your skin, in an effort to protect your body from ultraviolet rays, produces too much melanin.

Roughness (texture)

As you age, skin loses its smoothness, particularly in areas on the face and chest that are more commonly exposed to regular sunlight.

Melasma

Melasma appears as irregular patches of brown skin on the forehead, cheeks, upper lip and nose. Sometimes called the “mask of pregnancy,” melasma can affect anyone, but it’s most common among women — especially during hormonal fluctuations associated with pregnancy, oral contraceptive use or hormone replacement therapy. Melasma patches can be darkened by exposure to the sun.

Acne Scars

The Fraxel laser can smooth acne scarring by stimulating collagen to fill in the depressions in skin caused by acne, resulting in greatly improved texture and smoother appearance to your skin.

Stretch Marks

Stretch marks can occur in the dermis, the elastic middle layer of skin, that allows it to retain its shape and are a result of a breakdown in collagen and elastin in the skin. The Fraxel laser induces collagen growth and resurfaces the skin gradually, resulting in an improvement in the quality and texture of stretchmarks. This is the first treatment for stretch marks that actually works!

There is simply nothing else like it for improving the appearance of your skin and giving you a renewed sense of confidence.

Compared to the traditional resurfacing lasers, Fraxel® laser treatments have minimaldowntime. Fraxel® side effects include redness and mild puffiness for a few days. After three days, the skin appears bronzed and mild peeling occurs. Patients can apply make-up immediately and men can shave since the surface layer of skin is not removed. Three to five treatments are usually necessary, about one month apart. Fraxel® treatments can be don safely in types I-IV skin. Fraxel treatments have been featured on The Today Show, The View, and in In Style Magazine, Marie Claire, Self Magazine, and O, the Oprah Magazine.