Should I Wait for Recent Scar to Heal Before Getting Fraxel Laser?

Jnee, Fraxel laser treatments work well to diminish wrinkles around the eyes and tone the skin but will not address the dark circles in a significant way. Dark circles under the eyes are caused by a few factors and each have to be addressed to give you improvement Genetic causes: excess of...

Fractional CO2 laser is an excellent tool for skin rejuvenation in our center in Santa Monica. We use the fractional multi-depth ablative approach to help resurface the skin, recontour acne scars, improve incisional plastic surgery scars, and reduce surface irregularities from skin tone to dark...

Hi, It is safe to have even Fraxel repair of your eyelids one month after Juvederm and one year after Lasik surgery. The heat of the laser may cause the Juvederm placed in your eye hollows to dissolve sooner. Your cornea should be well healed after one year so that the corneal shields used...

Any treatment has risks, and no one can guarantee they won’t happen, even if they hadn’t been observed previously. Pigmentation changes (darker and lighter) can occur with any resurfacing treatment. Scarring would be extremely rare with Fraxel re:store. Fraxel re:pair has a slightly...

Fraxel makes two lasers: one that removes tiny columns of skin (Fraxel Repair CO2 laser) and one that coagulates columns of skin (Fraxel Restore). Neither have effect on actual facial volume. Your skin will tighten, but you won't lose fat, bone or muscle, which are the real cause of volume loss...

Plastic surgery scars require attention after surgery so that they remain cosmetically-appealing and barely noticeable. In our office, we use a protocol for scars that minimizes their activity in the 6-8 weeks after surgery. If you have late plastic surgery scars, you may also require laser and...