I Have Reddish Purple Spots After Fraxel Treatment. What Can I Do?

After Fraxel treatments, you want to do your best to maintain your results and prevent future sun damage. Even though everything may look back to normal, there is still healing and remodeling going on in your skin, and you don't want to do anything to irritate or inflame your skin. Your skin...

Thanks for your question.  Aggressive fraxel settings are necessary to get deep enough to remodel your scars. This redness is common after certain laser resurfacing treatments and should eventually fade within a month or two. GloMinerals make up line makes a product called redness relief...

The Fraxel re:pair has fractional laser technology that made the CO2 laser much safer than completely ablative CO2 lasers. The company has seen none of the risks that the older CO2 had - hypopigmentation, scarring, and lines of demarcation. The CO2 laser has been long regarded as the gold...

Fraxel is an excellent option for acne scarring on the face. It’s the best option for patients that have no active acne, mild scarring, and don’t want downtime. The best way to be sure of your needs is to see a physician that can treat acne AND can work on your scarring. As an example, we tre...

Fraxel is a brand of lasers made by Solta Medical. The name is very well recognized but there are actually a few different types of Fraxel lasers. We have the Fraxel Dual, which is one of their newest systems. It utilizes two different wavelengths to target different goals for our patients. The...

If you are having Fraxel laser for deep lines or perioral wrinkles around the mouth or acne scars, you will need a series of treatments.  It depends on what condition you are treating and the settings that you are having and the energy used to treat the area.  True collagen remodelling goes on f...