How to Rejuvenate Your Skin with Laser Treatments

Skin care has always been a matter of great concerns not only for women but also for men. People, especially those who have imperfections such as wrinkles or scars on their skin often seek for ways to give their skin a younger and smoother look. Thanks to high technology, there are several options and techniques to rejuvenate your skin. Today we will make a quick look into laser skin resurfacing and laser skin tightening.

How laser skin resurfacing works

This procedure aims a light beam at various layers of the skin to try to repair the appearance of wrinkles, discolorations, scars or other age spots. After the procedure and short recovery time, your skin will look younger and smoother.

Genarally, there are two types of laser skin resurfacing techniques:

Ablative laser removes thin layers of skin to minimize acne and other scars, age lines and wrinkles.

Non-ablative laser stimulates collagen growth and tightens underlying skin. This technique is less effective than ablative laser resurfacing.

Conditions that can be treated with skin rejuvenation and resurfacing include:

Static wrinkles. These wrinkles are visible at all times and do not change with facial movements.

Dynamic wrinkles. These are expression lines that may appear as folds when the skin is not moving, and deepen with facial movements or expressions.

Pigmentation. Freckles, sun spots, or other darkened patches of skin result mainly from sun exposure;

Scars. As the result of acne or injury to the skin, scars may be rolling (a wavy appearance to the skin), pitted, discolored, or have raised borders;

Vascular conditions. Blood vessels visible on the surface of the skin, vascular lesions that appear as tiny blood-filled blisters or even a constant flush of facial redness;

Loss of skin tone. Weakening of the supportive skin structures (collagen and elastin fibers) that result in a loss of skin firmness or the development of cellulite.

Benefits and risks of laser resurfacing

Although skin resurfacing cannot produce perfect skin, it can improve the appearance of your skin. Potential risks of the procedure include:

Burns or other injuries from the laser’s heat;

Scarring;

Changes in the skin’s pigmentation, including areas of darker or lighter skin;

Reactivating herpes;

Bacterial infection.

How laser skin tightening works

This process uses laser technology to gently heat deeper layers of collagen while cooling the skin’s outer layers. The results are a more youthful-looking skin. Skin tightening is a safe and painless way to rejuvenate your skin.

Is laser skin tightening safe?

Unlike other treatments, such as laser skin resurfacing, which promote the growth of new skin by removing superficial layers of the patient’s existing skin, laser skin tightening does not burn or break the skin. Very few side effects that patients with skin tightening treatment experience; most of them cause minor inconveniences in form of redness or minimal and temporary swelling.

Risks and benefits of laser skin tightening:

Benefits. Immediate results can be noticed after a few sessions. During treatment, patients experience minimal discomfort and there is little chance of side effects that follow. Since this procedure is not a surgery, it is considered a safer and less costly as well.

Risks. Some patients experience trivial symptoms such as a change in skin color, bruising, etc, but its will wear out in a short period of time.

Laser treatments are very popular in the medical industry as it can help rejuvenate the skin and reduce the effects of the sun, aging, and some facial skin disorders. Treatments are safe, effective, and convenient. Despite the fact the costs are often expensive, the results would be smoother, younger, healthier-looking skin. Consult a doctor to get more information and determine which kind of treatment – resurfacing or tightening, that suits you best.