Cosmetic Laser Surgery
With the revolution of lasers cosmetic surgery has taken on a whole new look. Laser treatments can help you see, look and feel your best. If you have a procedure done with a laser, you will experience less bleeding, less pain, and a quicker recover time. And for many internal procedures, surgeons have the advantage of the laser's energy to reach areas inside the body with ease. Because of the wavelengths from the laser light, the surgeon can work on specific types of tissues like hair follicles or varicose veins, without affecting or damaging the nearby tissue.
Surgeons started out using lasers to treat acne scars when they started noticing that after resurfacing the skin around the scar to make the scar less visible, the wrinkles around the area had become greatly diminished as well. Thus began the era of using lasers for facial skin resurfacing.
Collagen
Facial resurfacing in essences is a way to refresh your skin's surface and get a new layer of non-sun damaged and more youthful skin. The skin gets texture from collagen which is a fibrous protein in the skin's connective tissue. Natural aging, sun damage, and smoking, break down the collagen layer developing wrinkles on your skin's once smooth surface. But after laser treatment, you will experience new, more youthful collagen forming.
Laser resurfacing has actually helped people look up to 20 years younger and the results can last up to 10 years. But the down side is that after surgery you need to avoid sunbathing because it will destroy your skin again. You can have a repeat treatment after a year, but more than likely the success of the first treatment won't require any follow-up.
Lasers cannot rejuvenate skin on any other part of the body. I can't lift or remove sagging jowls or smooth out sagging neck skin. These conditions need to have traditional cut-and-stitch surgical procedures.
Types of Cosmetic Laser Surgeries
• Laser skin peeling - reduces wrinkles around the lips, eyes, or even the entire face.
• Laser removal of birthmarks - port-wine stain birthmarks respond incredibly well to laser treatments.
• Laser removal of skin lesions
• Laser hair transplants - lasers are used to prepare the area where hair transplants will be placed.
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