Your skin protects you from the environment, but it accumulates damage over time. While sun damage and other exposures affect your skin from the outside, aging causes it to produce less collagen, leading to a loss of strength and firmness. Laser skin resurfacing reverses these signs of aging and environmental damage, giving you smoother skin with a youthful glow.
What is Laser Skin Resurfacing?
Laser skin resurfacing is a term that describes any treatment using a laser to trigger skin rejuvenation. Laser skin resurfacing uses laser energy to trigger skin renewal by stimulating new collagen formation and bringing healthy new skin cells to the surface.
Laser skin resurfacing treatments can be ablative (removing the outer layers of skin) or non-ablative (leaving the outer layers intact). They can also be described as fractional, which means the laser treats controlled areas of the skin surrounded by unaffected tissue. The untreated skin responds by stimulating healing and growth processes.