Fractional Laser Resurfacing: Why All the Fuss?

Abbasi, Naheed R.; Dover, Jeffrey S.

doi:10.1111/j.1524-4725.2009.01456.x

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“…It bridges the gap that has existed between clinical results and postprocedure downtime. 5 Nonablative fractional modalities have been used to improve pigmentary 27 changes and skin texture. 3 Fractional resurfacing has an easier, shorter recovery than traditional resurfacing.…”

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5 Fractional Laser Skin Resurfacing

Truswell¹

2016

Lasers and Light, Peels and Abrasions

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Ablative skin resurfacing lasers were developed in the early 1990s. These resurfacing devices utilized high fluence, pulsed carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) lasers. They produced dramatic clinical results in the treatment of photodamaged facial skin, rhytids, lentigines, and dermal elastosis. However, this laser treatment frequently had a prolonged recovery with associated pinkness and risk of potential complications. These issues made laser resurfacing a less attractive skin rejuvenation option. 1 This led to the development of other devices including fractional lasers. The first fractional lasers were nonablative. These were soon followed by ablative fractional lasers. These lasers provide clinically significant results with increased tolerability, lower risk of complications than ablative resurfacing, and a relatively minimal recovery. 2 BackgroundFractional photothermolysis has revolutionized laser skin resurfacing by providing significant improvement in clinical results with a relatively mild posttreatment recovery. There are also lower complication rates and associated morbidity.

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“…5 With these nonablative lasers, multiple treatments may be required to achieve the desired results and with present technology they may not be equivalent to the results of fractional ablative resurfacing. These lasers are coagulative in nature, with no epidermal ablation.…”

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5 Fractional Laser Skin Resurfacing

Truswell¹

2016

Lasers and Light, Peels and Abrasions

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“…Improvements in skin texture and tone previously made possible only with surgery (rhytidectomy) or full‐face laser ablation have become attainable using devices associated with significantly less recovery time and risk . As such, erbium‐doped yttrium aluminum garnet Er:YAG, yttrium scandium gallium garnet (YSGG), and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) fractionated devices have increasingly been used to help patients rejuvenate their skin …”

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“…carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) fractionated devices have increasingly been used to help patients rejuvenate their skin. 2 In contrast to devices that produce full epidermal ablation, fractionated ablative devices create spatially discrete columnar treatment zones with intervening skip areas that enable more-rapid wound healing and reduce risk of scarring, pigmentary change, and prolonged erythema. 1 Little is known about the clinical differences, if any, between fractionated YSGG, Er:YAG, and CO 2 lasers used to resurface the skin.…”

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A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Four Ablative Fractionated Lasers for Photoaging: A Quadrant Study

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Abbasi

Dover

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Dermatologic Surgery

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“…The benefits of fractional resurfacing are based upon the skin's response to microthermal zones (MTZs), microscopic columns of injury adjacent to untreated skin. With ablative fractional devices, water in the epidermis and dermis is targeted, and a microscopic full‐thickness wound is created, whereas with nonablative fractional devices, water is also targeted, but coagulation rather than ablation occurs 2 . The wound healing response that follows is a key to understanding the mechanism of action of fractional resurfacing in treating dyspigmentation.…”

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