When your face is relaxed and wrinkles and lines around your eyes are visible, it is time to “up the game”  Sometimes Botox is just not enough to just prevent crow’s feet.
Resurfacing lasers will stimulate new collagen around the eyes and for the visible lines. Fraxel ,  resurfacing treatment – has minimal downtime and can be used as a preventative treatment.

Fractional Laser Resurfacing is the latest laser technology which can deliver the similar results to that of ablative resurfacing, without the discomfort and inconvenience of a lengthy healing period.

Another advantage of Fractional Laser Resurfacing is that the treatment is done in the doctors’ rooms with a topical anaesthetic cream and does not require a General Anaesthetic! The actual treatment takes approximately 30 minutes. The procedure has an excellent safety profile, with minor blistering very uncommon and scarring virtually unknown

Fractional Laser Resurfacing treats a small “fraction” of the skin, leaving intact, undamaged skin around each treated area to act as a barrier and a reservoir for rapid healing.

Fractional Laser Resurfacing is done with a Fraxel Laser – the laser passes through the dry outer layer of skin, and wounds the underlying collagen. Nearby undamaged cells immediately mobilize to heal the wounded area. No visible wound is created, so no wound care is needed. The skin may appear ‘bronzed’ and red for a day or so but makeup can be applied immediately. The Fraxel Laser is FDA approved for the treatment of facial (periorbital) wrinkles, age spots, and sun spots, but it’s expected to work well for almost any application for which traditional ablative resurfacing is effective, including acne scars, rosacea (including rosacea with breakouts), hyperpigmentation, and sun-damaged skin.

The Fraxel Laser treats about 20% of the skin with each session.

The number of treatments necessary will vary from patient to patient depending on how much collagen remodelling is needed but generally 3-5 treatments spaced over a 3-6 month period.
For deeper lines and wrinkles – especially under the eyes CO2Re (fractionated CO2 resurfacing) is the recommended treatment.  The downtime for CO2RE is a week – but the results are well worth it.

This procedure is done with a local anaesthetic gel. The healing of the treated area is typically 7 days. Generally you will see the difference you want after one treatment.

Results start showing after a month of the treatment when the fibroblast start kicking in, and continue improving for up to 7 months after your treatment.