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FRACTIONAL CO₂

New standard for treatment of acne scars

Fractional Lasers

A "fractional" laser basically splits up a beam of laser light into several hundred smaller spots when the laser hits the skin. This creates a "pixilated" area of ablation. This is a very intelligent way of delivery as the normal skin between the ablated areas allow faster healing and recovery.

Fractional Lasers are the latest buzz in Aesthetic Medicine. Any laser that has come along in the past is being fractionated. From Erbiums to CO2, from Nd-Yags to Diodes, and from highly ablative to completely not ablative one. It is very clear that the current frenzy to "fractionate" anything is to extend the R&D-product life cycle. While it makes sense to fractionate some lasers, it is a joke for others. Particularly non-ablative ones.

CO2 is the only laser that makes sense fractionating. The original full-on, non-fractional CO2 laser is simply scary. After just one treatment, patients had to go through months of redness and weeks away from work. Fractionating the CO2 laser reduces this from recovery time to only 4-5 days. This is because the normal skin in between ablated areas allows for quicker healing. And by fractionating the thermal "damage" to just columns within the skin, as opposed to a whole sheet, it allows for skin contraction and skin-tightening.

Therefore the fractional CO2 laser is more powerful than any other laser, by far, in the treatment of acne scars. Not only that, it has skin-tightening and general rejuvenation benefits too.

Acne Scars

There are of course many types of acne scars. Some are pretty shallow like a rolling hilly terrain. Others are like a crater (box cart scars) or like holes chiseled into skin by an ice-pick (ice-pick scars). The shallow scars respond very well and will lighten almost completely after 3 treatments of the Fractional CO2. The deeper ones may lighten somewhat - about 40% to 50% - after 3 treatments. Ice-pick scars are the hardest to treat.

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For more information on Fractional CO2, call us on (+65) 6733 5300