Burn victims are left with the scars of their injury and until recently there were few effective treatments available. Fractional lasers such as Solta Medical’s Fraxel and the UltraPulse from Lumenis have now provided hope for burn patients, and for treating other scars as well. “Since the fractionated lasers have come out, we have actually been really pushing [...]
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Fractional Resurfacing Offers Hope for Those With Burn Scars
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010Stretch Mark Treatment Denver
Sunday, July 11th, 2010We have finished up with our stretch mark study and the results have been very good to excellent. All of our patients are seeing significant improvement in color, texture and depth of their stretch marks using a combination the Active FX, Deep FX and Pulsed Dye Lasers. We are on the leading edge in Denver for treatment of stretch marks [...]
Skin Tightening and Wrinkle Removal In Denver, Colorado
Monday, November 2nd, 2009The most common questions asked in my office are about skin tightening and wrinkle removal. Patients want to know which laser treatments work the best. There are so many technologies out there that it is easy to get lost in technical jargon and marketing build up. The good news is that there are some truly excellent lasers procedures out there [...]
Treatment for Bruising and Swelling
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009Avoid these supplements before medical and cosmentic procedures. Heal bruising and swelling after procedures and injections with Arnica and Bromelain
What's the best way to tighten loose skin?
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009There are several “Skin Tightening” devices, and none are created equally. The two main categories are: Ablative (vaporized some elements of the skin) Non-ablative. The non ablative procedures have little to no downtime and tend to cost a little less per procedure while the ablative procedure tend to provide better results but can have significant down [...]
Active FX vs. Fraxel vs. Pixel vs. Profractional What's the Difference
Thursday, December 18th, 2008There are quite a few fractionated resurfacing lasers out there. So exactly what is resurfacing and what are fractionated lasers. What makes one fractionated laser different from other? Resurfacing is a procedure where layers of damaged skin are removed usually by vaporization from a laser. It can be used to get rid of brown pigment caused by sun damage, [...]
What's New at the Office!
Friday, October 3rd, 2008Cryo 6: We just received our new Cryo 6 cooler. This is a small unit that blows extremely cold air over the skin to make treatments so much more comfortable. It can be used during hair removal, IPL, FX, Pearl or just about any other heat related procedure. Make sure to ask for the new Cryo [...]