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ProFractional can be used to improve a wide variety of skin conditions including:                      

  Wrinkles and fine lines

  Post-traumatic scars

  Acnes scars 

  Age spots and Sun spots

  Freckles

  Aging and sun-damaged skin

  Little or no downtime 

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What is ProFractional ? Pro-Fractional is a fractionated, re-surfacing laser procedure, for lifting and tightening both surface and underlying tissue.

It is a quick and comfortable laser procedure with limited downtime, used for improving the overall appearance of your skin. It treats conditions like, scarring, skin laxity, wrinkles and photo damage. ProFractional uses a laser microbeam to treat thousands of pinpoint areas of your skin.

How it works

With fractionated laser skin treatments the laser beam is broken up or fractionated into many small micro beams which are separated so that they strike the skin's surface in a regular pattern leaving small areas of untreated skin intact between them (See figure below).

 

A cream anesthetic is applied about 1 hour before the procedure and the treatment usually takes less than an hour. Most patients find Profractional tolerable but oral pain medicine is provided if anyone is at all uncomfortable with it.

What happens afterwards

Immediately following the procedure there is usually redness and a sunburn sensation. There may be some pinpoint bleeding for up to a day after a Profractional Laser treatment and several days of swelling if done around the eyes. Redness usually resolves within a week but can last up to months in fair-skinned patients. Any discoloration is easily hid by makeup or tinted sunscreen in as early as 3 days after the treatment. A single Profractional Laser treatment will produce visible results that continue to improve as the skin remodels over the following months, but a series of at least 2 Profractional laser treatments usually provides the best results. Profractional Laser treatments can be done at least 3 weeks apart.

Aging and sun-damaged skin

ProFractional uses laser energy to create thousands of microscopic channels in the skin, which are surrounded by areas of healthy, untreated skin. The zones of untreated skin invigorate the body's natural healing process, and the treated areas stimulates production of new collagen, plumping up the skin and smoothing out wrinkles, lines and other irregularities.

Who should consider ProFractional treatment ? If you are looking for younger looking skin, or to improve scars, wrinkles, or sun damage in a comfortable treatment with a fast recovery, then you may be an ideal candidate for ProFractional. Ask Dr.  Benchetrit and his team at COSMEDICA if ProFractional is right for you.