2024-01-05
How does skin age?
Collagen is the substance that gives the skin strength and elasticity and plumps the skin, keeping it tight and smooth. After age 20, we produce about 1...
READ MOREAcne Scarring: Acne scarring is permanent damage to the deep layers of skin and changes the texture of the skin. Fractional CO2 treatment generates new collagen to smooth acne scars. Discolorations may fade with time but can become permanent, and can be removed with this treatment.
Surgical and traumatic scars: These scars can be disfiguring and may restrict normal movement of the skin. When the skin is injured the body tries to fix it with collagen. Treatment can improve the appearance of these scars through formation of new collagen and new healthy skin.
Sun Damage on the face, neck, chest, arms and hands: Fractional CO2 treatment can treat photo-damage and pigment changes improving texture and tone, and eliminating age spots, pigmented spots and liver spots also called lentigines (small brown patches on the skin) caused by sun damage.
Around the eyes: Resurfacing can refresh and rejuvenate the eyelids, erase upper and lower eyelid wrinkles and crepiness, and lift droopy upper eyelids.
Around the mouth: Smoker’s lines, pucker marks and wrinkles around the mouth can be softened and smoothed.
Face and neck: Deep wrinkles, crosshatching on the cheeks, dullness, roughness, leathery skin, and discolorations can all be removed.
Many types of skin lesions can be removed with fractional CO2 treatment. Treatment is safe and effective to remove moles, seborrheic keratosis common noncancerous skin growths that appear as brown, black and tan growths on the face, chest, neck that may be mistaken for a wart or mole, actinic keratoses Precancerous scaly, crusty growths caused by sun damage, skin tags harmless skin growths that appear on the eyelids, and other areas, and warts.