Fractora is a really good skin tightening, skin resurfacing and acne / acne scar treatment. I have used Fractora for some time and have experienced lovely results. Depending on the depth of treatment needed several sessions may be required. Scars will improve and skin can be tightened, it helps wrinkles too. The down time is a lot less that the more invasive Co2 fractional laser treatments, and the results are the same if not better in my patients. Down time is dependent on the intensity of treatment and you would expect to have a few days of redness, followed by some scabbing and healing where the skin will feel a bit rough. After that the healing and tightening continue as collagen and elastin are stimulated. Results last for up to 2 years. (although the aging process will be continuing in the background too).
I am the first physician in Nevada to have Fractora by Invasix. I've had it for about a month, and truly, LOVE IT. I have done about 10 patients so far, varying in reasons for treatment from fine lines and wrinkles, to severe wrinkles, to tremendous acne scarring, to light acne scarring. So far the results are great. I have my technicians do the very low setting procedures with just a topical numbing cream, and I do the higher settings after blocking the patients with lidocaine. The treatments done on low settings will need to be done probably 3-5 times (a series), the higher setting ones, hopefully will need 1-2 treatments for full effects. The best part about these procedures is that there are different treatment tips for treating different depths and sizes, so it's customizable, as well as the strength of the radio frequency going in. This allows us to treat darker skinned patients better, safer, and more effectively than we can with other machines. Down sides would be definitely a few days of redness, some swelling, and some pain, but again, that depends on which treatment settings are being used - if you are good to do more treatments and have less downtime, that's fine and you'll recover much faster, but some people want the max they can do and take a few days to recover. I've tried many other fractional and ablative laser treatments over the years, and comparably to those, Fractora is by far the best and yielding the best results I've seen.
