Your face has slowly moved away from the smooth, blank canvas you had when you were younger. Today, the evidence of passing years is obvious as the spots, wrinkles, and sagging skin keep piling up.
Though anti-aging treatments have never been better and you have plenty of great options to choose from, laser skin resurfacing is emerging as an all-in-one treatment that can truly hit the reset button on aging and blemished skin. This explains why more than 3.7 million skin resurfacing treatments are performed in the United States each year.
As skincare experts, the experienced team at Orange Coast Dermatology appreciates the great results our arsenal of laser technologies has for patients, including our laser skin resurfacing systems from brand leader InMode®. Here, we look at a few amazing cosmetic goals we can accomplish through laser skin resurfacing.
Before we get into the benefits of laser skin resurfacing, we want to describe how this technology works. There are two types of laser skin resurfacing:
At our practice, we’ve had great success with CO2 fractional lasers, and we outline some of the benefits of this technology below.
There are many different reasons why laser skin resurfacing is fast becoming a go-to treatment, including:
If you look at yourself in the mirror in certain lighting, you realize just how extensive the small lines and wrinkles are in your skin. With laser skin resurfacing, we can eradicate f these fine lines before they become larger wrinkles.
And for larger wrinkles and folds that already exist, we can greatly minimize their appearance with laser skin resurfacing, which works very well at smoothing and lifting aging skin.
Wrinkles are often only half of the equation when it comes to the aging face. Many people also deal with areas of hyperpigmentation (age or sun spots) and more pronounced scarring, including acne scarring. The good news is that we can banish these blemishes with laser skin resurfacing.
With our fractional laser skin resurfacing, our system delivers radiofrequency energy into the deep layers of your skin to lift and tighten the tissue. This effect is both immediate, as the thermal energy tightens your skin, as well as gradual, as new collagen slowly fills in the microchannels we created to lift the entire surface of your skin.
Since we’re only making small microchannels in your skin, much of the surface area remains uninjured, which greatly reduces downtime afterward. Depending upon the size of the area we treat, you can expect some redness and soreness for a week or two after your laser skin resurfacing treatment.
Moving forward, a hint of redness may persist for a while as your skin heals and new skin cells take over, but you can easily mask this with a tinted cream. Better yet, use a tinted sunscreen to protect your skin while it turns over.
As you can see, laser skin resurfacing is an incredibly versatile anti-aging tool that can check a lot of boxes when it comes to your cosmetic goals. And you don’t have to undergo an expensive and risky facelift to get there.
To explore whether you might be a good candidate for laser skin resurfacing, please contact one of our offices in Rancho Santa Margarita, Orange, or Mission Viejo, California, today to schedule a consultation.
