Flawless smooth skin, we all want it. However, that dewy glow is elusive for most of us. Removing the dead cells at home with scrubs, masks, and retinol can help. Clinical resurfacing procedures like chemical peels, micro-needling, and dermabrasion can get you there faster. However, when you need a supercharged solution, there is nothing effective than laser skin resurfacing Santa Monica or anywhere else.
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What is Laser Skin Resurfacing?
Laser skin resurfacing is a popular cosmetic procedure that helps reduce wrinkles, acne scars, fine lines, age spots, blemishes, tighten skin, and balance skin tone. The treatment involves using a laser that directs short, concentrated pulsating beams of light on the skin precisely removing the dead cells. It removes the dead cells layer by layer vaporizing it. This stimulates the growth of new collagen resulting in new firmer and smoother skin. Laser skin resurfacing is also known by other names like lasabrasion, laser peel, and laser vaporization.
When Should you Have Laser Skin Resurfacing Procedure?
Laser-treated skin is sensitive for up to a year and sun exposure can further aggravate it causing burns and itching. So, the cosmetic surgeons recommend you undergo the treatment in the fall or winter months when daytime hours are shorter, and you are spending most of the time indoors. However, you can undergo laser skin resurfacing at any time of the year, but it is important to wear sunscreen and avoid sun exposure as much as possible. This keeps the result looking at its best as well as protects against skin cancer and additional premature aging.
Types of Laser Skin Resurfacing?
There are various types of laser skin resurfacing options because one laser cannot treat all patients and skin concerns. Here are a few varieties you will come across.
CO2 Lasers – These are ablative lasers used to reduce wrinkles, scars, warts, and other deeper skin flaws. This laser strips the top layer and a part of the second skin layer offering smooth skin.
Erbium (Er: YAG) Lasers – These can be ablative or non-ablative. The treatment with Er: YAG lasers promotes collagen production, making them popular options to treat wrinkles, fine lines, skin laxity, and age spots.
Pulsed-Dye Lasers – These lasers are non-ablative that heat the skin absorbing pigments, thus reducing redness, hyperpigmentation, broken capillaries, and rosacea.
Fractional Lasers – These lasers can be ablative or non-ablative and help treat several age-related blemishes. The laser machine used breaks up the laser energy into thousands of tiny beams treating only a fraction of the skin in the area, which reduces downtime.
IPL (intense pulsed light) – Treatments with IPL are technically not a laser but often used to treat similar concerns as lasers, such as sun damage, vascular lesions, acne, rosacea, and hyperpigmentation.
Does Laser Skin Resurfacing Hurt?
Most people who undergo the treatment compare the sensation felt like a rubber band snapping against the skin. However, what laser skin resurfacing Santa Monica feels like depends on the laser, the area and depth of the treatment, and the person’s level of pain tolerance. Treatment with CO2 and Erbium YAG lasers may require local anesthesia. While other laser treatments that cause little to no pain require topical numbing cream
Good Candidate for Laser Skin Resurfacing
You are an ideal candidate for laser skin resurfacing Santa Monica if you have acne scars or scars from chickenpox, uneven skin tone and pigmentation, birthmarks, age spots, sun-damaged skin, fine lines or wrinkles around eyes, forehead, or mouth, and enlarged oil glands on your nose.
These are a few things to know about laser skin resurfacing. If you are considering the treatment in Santa Monica, then schedule your consultation today with the experts at Westside Face. The surgeons are skilled and will give you a clear view of the process.
