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Best Laser Treatment for Wrinkles, Sun Damage, and Skin Tightening?

Which between the CO2 Dot therapy and the Sciton Profractional Laser would you recommend for wrinkles, sun damage, and skin tightening? Which of the two has less down time and provides best results? Are there any risks on these lasers? Thank you!

Asked 37 months ago by sandrasue in Grants Pass
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We don't know yet

There are a whole host of fractional ablative devices presently on the market with more coming soon. They all claim wrinkle improvement, skin tightening and removal of sun damage with a minimal postoperative recovery and low risk. There has been one peer reviewed article published last month (May 2009) in Journal of Drugs in Dermatology that compared 8 of these fractional resurfacing laser. The main points raised in this study include: 1) The CO2 lasers were found to be superior to the... more
Daniel J. Leeman, MD
Austin Facial Plastic Surgeon
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