The latest on our Fractionated CO2 Laser: the Smart Xide Dot.

As you may know, a CO2 laser is a stronger laser (see laser results for results)that has to potential in the right patients to erase wrinkles and improve discoloration dramatically. The older CO2 lasers sometimes produced undesirable permanent decrease in pigmentation. This problem has been solved if the new CO2 fractional lasers are used carefully. Patients with the proper (lighter) skin type can be treated more aggressively, and get good results right away. We do treat darker skin types, but it has to be a careful, slow process, over several sessions. The new Smart Xide Dot laser sprays thousands of tiny treated areas on the face or neck and leaves intact bridges of skin that allow for rapid healing.

Where the new laser has come into its own seems to be the neck area. This was formerly impossible to treat without over or under doing it. Now, we seem to often have 50 per cent improvements with just one treatment. We can use just enough treatment power without using too much. Those brown, sun exposed necks that many women in our Pasadena / Los Angeles / or Central Valley / Fresno area have can be successfully and carefully lightened with this laser. And it’s really not painful. If our patients want to take the numbing cream home, they can apply it an hour before they come in to see us and they generally have very little discomfort. Or, if you would rather not have any sensation at all, we offer sedation inexpensively if you have a friend to drive you home. See Lasers at DrYoho.com for more information.