Hi Kim,
The new Fraxel re:pair is made by Reliant Technologies Inc., which is the same company that made the first fractionated lasers including the "Fraxel that is already out" (has been out for the past 3 years).
Re: pair is a completely different laser (CO2) while the "older laser" is a non-ablative fractionated erbium laser. They have renamed the older version Fraxel re: store (aka Fraxel 750 and Fraxel SR1500). The new re: pair is an ablative fractionated CO2 laser that tightens laxity of facial and neck skin with minimal downtime, risks, and complications that have been seen with the older traditional CO2 lasers.
Like the Fraxel re: store, the re: pair also treats brown pigment, age spots, scars, wrinkles, melasma (brown pigment of birth control pills and pregnancy), but the big difference is in tightening and deeper lines. Also red discolorations respond well with re: pair.
Unlike the previous Fraxel re: store, re: pair achieves this in a single treatment. Re: pair is more painful so a local anesthetic nerve block can be used, and the recovery time is greater than with re: store.
Be well.
Dr. P
