Dr. Teo Soleymani
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Yeah, yeah, 100%. Jack of all trades, master of none.
If I were to pick one device and one device only, and I have no affiliation with any medical device out there, so I'm not speaking with a bias. And most dermatologists will agree with this. If I were to pick one device, it's the Fraxel device. And it's basically fractionated non-ablative resurfacing. And this... Is it a laser? It's a laser.
If I were to pick one device and one device only, and I have no affiliation with any medical device out there, so I'm not speaking with a bias. And most dermatologists will agree with this. If I were to pick one device, it's the Fraxel device. And it's basically fractionated non-ablative resurfacing. And this... Is it a laser? It's a laser.
If I were to pick one device and one device only, and I have no affiliation with any medical device out there, so I'm not speaking with a bias. And most dermatologists will agree with this. If I were to pick one device, it's the Fraxel device. And it's basically fractionated non-ablative resurfacing. And this... Is it a laser? It's a laser.
And we love this laser. It's been around for a long time because it does three things, and it does it remarkably well. Number one, it improves sun damage, so sunspots, browns, wrinkling. It improves fine lines and wrinkles by stimulating collagen. And more importantly, at least to me, more recently, we found that it decreases cancer risk when it's done yearly by up to 50%.
And we love this laser. It's been around for a long time because it does three things, and it does it remarkably well. Number one, it improves sun damage, so sunspots, browns, wrinkling. It improves fine lines and wrinkles by stimulating collagen. And more importantly, at least to me, more recently, we found that it decreases cancer risk when it's done yearly by up to 50%.
And we love this laser. It's been around for a long time because it does three things, and it does it remarkably well. Number one, it improves sun damage, so sunspots, browns, wrinkling. It improves fine lines and wrinkles by stimulating collagen. And more importantly, at least to me, more recently, we found that it decreases cancer risk when it's done yearly by up to 50%.
And we knew this for the past 10 years, 15 years that the device has been around, that patients who would get this laser resurfacing done for their face they had less sun damage, less cancerous changes, and less skin cancer. But now the Harvard study last year validated that in a beautiful study that looked at patients who got Fraxel treatment and their skin cancer risk dropped by 50%.
And we knew this for the past 10 years, 15 years that the device has been around, that patients who would get this laser resurfacing done for their face they had less sun damage, less cancerous changes, and less skin cancer. But now the Harvard study last year validated that in a beautiful study that looked at patients who got Fraxel treatment and their skin cancer risk dropped by 50%.
And we knew this for the past 10 years, 15 years that the device has been around, that patients who would get this laser resurfacing done for their face they had less sun damage, less cancerous changes, and less skin cancer. But now the Harvard study last year validated that in a beautiful study that looked at patients who got Fraxel treatment and their skin cancer risk dropped by 50%.
Yeah, yeah. And to go into that, and I can assure you, almost every one of your favorite dermatologists has had Fraxel or wants to do Fraxel to their skin. It's the gold standard, in my opinion. The way it works is the laser drills microscopic holes
Yeah, yeah. And to go into that, and I can assure you, almost every one of your favorite dermatologists has had Fraxel or wants to do Fraxel to their skin. It's the gold standard, in my opinion. The way it works is the laser drills microscopic holes
Yeah, yeah. And to go into that, and I can assure you, almost every one of your favorite dermatologists has had Fraxel or wants to do Fraxel to their skin. It's the gold standard, in my opinion. The way it works is the laser drills microscopic holes
to a certain depth of the skin targeting a certain region of the skin without destroying the top layer so and this is the elegance of lasers is it provides heat based destruction to a certain depth let's say the sun damage brown spot, the freckles that are from longstanding sun, fine lines and wrinkles as a result of collagen breakdown in that area, while leaving the surface untouched.
to a certain depth of the skin targeting a certain region of the skin without destroying the top layer so and this is the elegance of lasers is it provides heat based destruction to a certain depth let's say the sun damage brown spot, the freckles that are from longstanding sun, fine lines and wrinkles as a result of collagen breakdown in that area, while leaving the surface untouched.
to a certain depth of the skin targeting a certain region of the skin without destroying the top layer so and this is the elegance of lasers is it provides heat based destruction to a certain depth let's say the sun damage brown spot, the freckles that are from longstanding sun, fine lines and wrinkles as a result of collagen breakdown in that area, while leaving the surface untouched.
So you don't have weeping, bleeding wounds that you used to see from... Other older lasers, CO2 laser being a popular one in the 80s and 90s and 2000s, your skin is not raw when you go home. You don't have any open wounds, but your skin starts to peel in the week and you look amazing. If I were to pick one device and only have that, that would be it.
So you don't have weeping, bleeding wounds that you used to see from... Other older lasers, CO2 laser being a popular one in the 80s and 90s and 2000s, your skin is not raw when you go home. You don't have any open wounds, but your skin starts to peel in the week and you look amazing. If I were to pick one device and only have that, that would be it.
So you don't have weeping, bleeding wounds that you used to see from... Other older lasers, CO2 laser being a popular one in the 80s and 90s and 2000s, your skin is not raw when you go home. You don't have any open wounds, but your skin starts to peel in the week and you look amazing. If I were to pick one device and only have that, that would be it.
Yeah, by targeting that layer of the skin in which sun damage accumulates, it turns that skin over. So all that damaged skin sloughs off within a week. So the skin on the surface now is healthier and younger. And we actually studied this up at Stanford where we took biopsy samples of skin that was treated with these wavelengths of light and looked at the genes. And before...