ADVANCED LASER SKIN SCIENCE

Historically, bulk ablative treatments and other lasers have treated the skin with high power levels, macroscopic spot sizes, and no overriding technology to control the amount of thermal injury created. Since they burn off entire layers of skin, these treatments damage more healthy tissue than is necessary to achieve the optimal outcome. As a result, there’s a high risk for infection, scarring, hypopigmentation and other complications – not to mention weeks of clinical downtime.

In 2001, a team of Fraxel engineers, researchers and scientists pioneered a laser skin science called fractional photothermolysis. This approach, when combined with Fraxel’s advanced technological intelligence, delivers efficacy and safety. For patients, that means remarkable results and minimal downtime – which simply didn’t exist before Fraxel.

Efficient delivery. Superior results.
Unlike earlier laser devices, Fraxel brand laser systems treat microscopic volumes of skin with each unique pulse, leaving the surrounding area intact for fast healing. These microscopic treatment zones (MTZs) penetrate to the precise height and width necessary, while sparing many of the stem cells and melanocytes in the papillary dermis.

Rapid remodeling from the inside out
This fractional treatment results in both rapid reepitheliazation of the epidermis as well as collagen remodeling to depths of 1.6 mm. The skin heals much faster than if the entire area were treated at once, because the treatment uses the body's natural healing process to create new, healthy tissue that replaces skin imperfections – such as wrinkles, melasma, dyschromia, actinic ketatosis, pigmented lesions, acne scars and surgical scars.

And because the technology is so precise, Fraxel treatment works on and off the face, including delicate areas like the neck, chest and hands.

One-tenth the diameter of a hair follicle
	If you look at a newsprint photo up close, you'll see that the image is actually composed of thousands of tiny spots of ink. Similarly, as seen in this skin sample under a microscope, the Fraxel re:store™ laser produces thousands of microscopic treatment zones that aren’t visible to the naked eye. Each zone is just one-tenth the diameter of a hair follicle.

For more information on the advanced Fraxel technology, please see Clinical Excellence: Design or Clinical Publications. For the technical specifications of each Fraxel laser system, please visit Fraxel Products.