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fractional laser resurfacing
Indications:
- treatment of wrinkles
Principle:
- enables treatment of a fraction (<1/2) of targeted skin
- leaves intact a meshwork of normal skin
- speeds healing, reducing crusting & scabbing relative to traditional laser resurfacing
- reduces risk of hypopigmentation & scars
- may be nonablative, partially ablative, or ablative
- ablative resurfacing
- performed with a carbon dioxide laser
- provides greatest efficacy
- marginally longer downtime
- effectiveness is limited relative to traditional laser resurfacin
- multiple treatments may be required
- deep lines, like vertical rhytids above the lip, may not respond
General
laser resurfacing of skin
References
- Tierney EP et al.
Treatment of lower eyelid rhytids and laxity with ablative
fractionated carbon-dioxide laser resurfacing: Case series
and review of the literature.
J Am Acad Dermatol 2011 Apr; 64:730.
PMID: 21414497