As a Board Certified Facial Plastic Surgeon, advance physician trainer for Lumenis CO2 fractional laser and as one of nine Lumenis Laser Centers of Excellence I can help you with this question. I also will be unbiased in my answer.

It has been proven in several scientific/medical research papers that one ActiveFX is better and produces more collagen that a series of 5 Fraxel Erbium treatments. The patients are more happy with the ActiveFX results, have less total downtime, and it cost less to have one procedure versus 5 Fraxel Erbium.

It is also my opinion that the combination of ActiveFX and DeepFX is far more superior to the treatment that the new Fraxel CO2 can deliver. I have done ActiveFX/DeepFX in hundreds of patients and trained many physicians how to do this procedure and I still get impressed with the results that I can get in my hands. I have the pictures to prove it. My pictures, not company pictures.

My final word of advice is to always talk to your physician and verify his credentials. Ask how many of these has he done, ask to see pictures of his patients, not company pictures.