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Most of us wish we could slow down the effects aging has on our looks – and maybe even get a few years back in the process. Fraxel® is a proven laser technology that can help reverse the visible effects of aging, naturally helping you look as young as you feel. With Fraxel, change isn’t drastic or scary – it’s you, just younger.

Age spots are a result of sunning, rather than aging. These spots—also called sunspots, brown spots or liver spots—are flat, uneven dark patches on the face, neck, chest, hands and arms and other areas that are regularly exposed to the sun. Though usually harmless, these blotchy brownish patches can make you look and feel older than you really are.
In the sun, your body reacts by producing a pigment called melanin to protect your skin from ultraviolet rays. If you spend a lot of time in the sun, your skin may overreact by producing too much melanin. That increased pigmentation can result in age spots, which fall into a broad medical category called “pigmented lesions.”

Fraxel is effective on:

• Fine lines and wrinkles – like crow’s feet and brow lines
• Surface scarring – erasing effects of acne and other scarring
• Pigmentation  – minimizing the appearance of age spots
• Sun damage – helping heal dangerous skin damage
• Actinic Keratosis  (AK) – a common pre-cancerous skin condition

Fraxel is a non-invasive laser therapy providing a wide array of treatment options to address many forms of aging, customized to each patient’s needs and concerns, many requiring minimal recovery time. It’s the perfect solution for people who want their skin to look younger, but don’t want to look plastic or fake and can’t afford a lot of time away from work or their social life.
Thulium Laser Treatment is a “fractional” treatment that produces thousands of deep, tiny columns in your skin, called microscopic treatment zones (mtz). The term “fractional” means that only a percentage of the skin surface is affected with each pass of the laser. Fraxel intensively treats only some of the epidermal cells without affecting all of them. This method of fractionally treating the skin reduces healing time and promotes the skin’s natural process for creating new, healthier tissue to replace the damaged cells.
Whether your problems are pre-cancerous areas, sun spots, age spots, rough skin, wrinkles, acne scars, or surgical scars, Fraxel Thulium laser treatment offers improvements that previously were only available through more invasive laser procedures, which often required extensive healing and discomfort. If you have any questions regarding your skin or the Fraxel Thulium treatment, contact our office.