Dr. Samantha Ellis
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And so exfoliating acids like glycolic acid, lactic acid, mandelic acid, these are all things that also help with that skin cell turnover and can make things just look smooth and reflective.
I would say for your age and stage of life, like a fraxel laser, so a non-ablative but fairly aggressive laser to sort of tighten things up and sort of remove that surface dead skin cell layer would be appropriate.
Is a Fraxel laser the same thing as a CO2 laser?
Is that different?
Fraxel is a brand of laser.
And a lot of people, when they're talking about Fraxel, including myself, we're talking about the Fraxel dual laser, which is a non-ablative laser that is essentially heating columns of skin.
And then you extrude those columns of skin and everything tightens and smooths around it.
Fraxel does have a CO2 version of their laser, but there are lots of other brands of CO2 laser.
And that is an ablative laser, meaning that instead of heating columns of skin, it is truly vaporizing columns of skin.
Yes, it's really intense.
So always with cosmetics, it's usually like more downtime, more intensity is more impact per treatment.
It's also more cost and risk per treatment.
But CO2 does have that really intense downtime and you can have bleeding, oozing.
You got to be on antiviral medication, sometimes antibiotics.
And it's like a true solid week or more of downtime.
So it's a very intense treatment.
We often refer to it as laser surgery.
Yeah, I was going to say it feels more like post-surgery.
Yeah, in my office, we do like a pre-op visit.
They get a little bit of sedation.
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