Lasers for Scars, Keloids, and Stretch Marks

Lasers for treating striae: An emergent need for better evidence

“…[3][4][5][6][7] Of these technologies, the fractional photothermolysis is the most dependable. [2] It creates multiple non-contiguous zones of thermal damage in the epidermis and dermis, sparing the tissue surrounding the wound which in turn stimulates epidermal turnover and dermal collagen remodeling, which results in improvement of a variety of scar types. As all fractional lasers target water which is the primary chromophore they are safe and we prefer using the 1540 nm as it has a relatively lower absorption spectrum for water and thus can produce more collagen remodeling.…”