Does Sciton Skintyte Laser replace the use of Botox and fillers?

Will the skin tyte laser reduce the creepy skin on the inside of my arms?

This is a local Living Social Deal. I am interested, but cannot take anytime off other than maybe a weekend. What would be the "average" healing time needed for these treatments? Will they make any significant improvement to my skin? Does the discounted cost seem out of line? Here is the offer: To target sagging skin and help improve skin elasticity, get one Scion laser skin-tightening procedure for $699 (a $1,500 value), get two treatments for $1,198 (a $3,000 value), or three treatments for $1,497 (regularly $4,500).

My mom has "fatty tissue tumors" under the skin on her legs and arms. The dermatologist said there is nothing that can be done other than surgically removing them. Is there any type of treatment that would help to get rid of or minimize these tumors? Thanks

Laser resurfacing procedures should not form any scar tissue at all. If you are prone to keloids, and the laser is done too aggressively such that a scar forms, it could keloid.

I would add, however, that very few people with lighter skin types will keloid at all, and especially not in the face. If you are a dark skin type, then laser resurfacing should not be done at all, regardless of keloid issues. Dark skin has a very high risk of pigment abnormalities after resurfacing and should simply not be treated that way.

I would also add that what many people call a keloid is not a keloid, even some physicians don't know the difference. Most "keloids" are actually hypertrophic scars. Keloids grow beyond the original scar and continue to invade tissues and enlarge indefinitely, like a tumor. Hypertrophic scars are thick scars but do not continue to get thicker after the initial development and do not invade adjacent tissues.

Are there any laser resurfacing treatments that are safe for individuals who sometimes form keloids? It has been suggested that keloids don't usually form on the face... Thanks

Does it or does it not work for age spots, redness and lite lines? Sciton and what should be the going rate.

Fortunately there are many non-surgical alternatives to going under the knife in order to tighten lax skin. Infrared devices such as the Sciton's SkinTyte, Cutera's Titan and the monopolar radiofrequency device Thermage can be used. Your dermatologist should be able to explain to you what to expect and the differences between these procedures and the surgical alternative. The CO2 laser being a hot laser also delivers some thermal injury responsible for some tightening.

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I would be dubious of any claim that a laser can do things like tighten and lift, as though a replacement for a surgical lift. The Co2 laser is the gold standard, and that laser and chemical peels help freshen the surface by burning off the upper layers.
I'm not a doctor. But it seems like whatever laser the doctor happens to have, well that's the one that works! Oh please. They cya by saying 'oh, it takes a series' or whatever. Please read the commens of people who have paid a lot of money for series of lasers but in the end saw little or no improvement.

Sciton SkinTyte is more a partial substitute for a neck lift than Botox. A noninvasive, nonpainful series of treatments, SkinTyte heats the deep skin layers to induce collagen formation, and thereby reduce skin laxity. My experience is that SkinTyte is effective (more than Thermage), but does require several (fairly short & easy) treatments to get and maintain the desired effect.

Fillers and Botox are not replaced by lasers. Botox relaxes wrinkles and lines and fillers "fill" them.

Lasers resurface the skin but have no effect on dynamic wrinkles (the ones treated with Botox) and some moderate effect on static wrinkles caused by age and collagen breakdown. But this is dependent upon the type of the laser and the level of aggressiveness.

Full surface lasers (not the fractional lasers) require significant healing time and most people don't want to deal with an oozy mass of raw skin while that healing is in progress.

The fact that you are dealing with skin cancer should certainly be addressed and resolved FIRST! Should you require cancer removal surgery on your face, then some laser could help minimize scarring.

Lasers base their effectiveness on the delivery of heat, and to get tightening you have to have considerable levels of heat.
Fractional lasers such as the Lumenis DeepFX or the Fraxel CO2 or Syneron's ematrix, all tighten by both ablation(varporization of columns of tissue) plus the extended effect of heat which spreads out beyond the ablated columns.

The body's response is to tighten the collagen strands. Obviously the ablation itself will cause some tightening since the volume of skin tissue is lessened - although at a small percentage.

If the tissue laxity on your neck is significant, you likely will need surgery to get the effects you want. For those with minimal jowling and neck laxity, Thermage may be useful. But nothing will replace the effects of surgery for tightening when there is considerable sagging.

As for sleep wrinkles - you really can only combat them by changing your sleep position. High sodium intake tends to make sleep wrinkles on the face and chest more obvious since your tissue will hold more water.

does anything really work for the sagging neck? I've read and seen some to the pictures on this bolg and it looks scary.

I appreciate your answer. There are so many lasers and so many claims it is hard to know what is what. Can you or anyone say whether the resurfacing lasers (Co2 and Erbium) also tighten skin? Thank you.

Don't count on it. Infrared collagen remodeling (skin tyte) yields dubios results at best. If you are having issues with basal cell ca and have extensive UV damage to your skin, you should consider laser resurfacing. This actually works at eliminating mild to moderate wrinkles and improving deep ones. You will still need injectable fillers in your smile lines and Botox in your forehead. Laser resurfacing will also greatly reduce your incidence of future basal cells. The results are dramatic on almost everyone. The catch, you need to take a good bit of time for healing. 10 days to makeup and 3 months to really being healed. If you didn't have to heal from it, it didn't change you. Sciton and other companies make resurfacing lasers that do work. The magical machines that supposedly do everything without healing are snake oil. Resurfacing can be done to different depths, if you don't have it done to the deepest depth, you won't get the full effect. Again, it should take 3 months to heal.