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Just as a damaged painting is delicately restored one small area at a time, or a photographic image is altered, pixel by pixel, Fraxel Laser Treatment improves your appearance by affecting only a fraction of your skin at a time with thousands of tiny microscopic laser spots. Fraxel Laser Treatment produces thousands of tiny treatment zones on skin, known as Micro Thermal Zones (MTZs). These MTZs penetrate deep into the dermis and eliminate old epidermal pigmented cells. Just as important, though, are the areas of skin the Fraxel laser leaves untouched. For every MicroThermal Zone the laser targets and treats intensively, it leaves the surrounding tissue unaffected and intact. This "fractional" treatment allows the skin to heal much faster than if the entire area were treated at once, using the body's natural healing process to create new, healthy tissue to replace skin imperfections.

The Fraxel Laser is a breakthrough in improving the quality of the skin. This revolutionary treatment can be helpful in addressing many bothersome skin problems such as wrinkles, acne scars, scars, sun damage, brown spots and other skin problems.

The FDA has cleared the Fraxel Laser for the treatment of acne scars after studies showed that the new laser could be far more effective than traditional therapies at both removing damaged tissue and inducing the formation of new collagen. "In our practice, we have treated hundreds of acne scarring patients with the Fraxel® Laser, and we've seen significant improvements on all areas of the face, particularly the cheeks and temple area", says Dr. Paul Friedman, of Houston, TX. This includes deep "ice pick" marks usually found on the cheek. After a series of 3-5 Fraxel Laser treatments, the appearance of acne scars and the texture of the skin can be greatly improved. Minimal downtime is expected after this procedure.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also cleared the Fraxel Laser for the treatment & removal of melasma, also known as the mask of pregnancy. With the Fraxel laser's unique approach of using millions of microscopic thermal spots to gently resurface only portions of skin at a time, doctors & dermatologists can now penetrate deep enough to eliminate the melanocytes that cause melasma.

The Fraxel Laser is also effective in treating & removing crow's feet & dramatically improving wrinkles around your eyes.

Doctors, dermatologists & medspas that offer Fraxel Laser Treatments in the Santa Monica, California area: