The patients have lots of great options when it comes to skin resurfacing lasers. You have lasers with minimal
down time as simple as pulsed light IPL to things like
erbium skin resurfacing lasers like ResurFX to the type of lasers can
give you more down time like Portrait, which is nitrogen plasma skin resurfacing lasers. In the state of Florida,
lot of our patients are very photoaged; 85% of all the lines and wrinkles and pigment problems is true sun damage
and it is cumulative damage we have done 20 years ago. It is kind of showing up now, so the patients have lots of
great options when it comes to skin resurfacing lasers. The simplest type lasers with minimal downtime would be
IPL that is Intense Pulsed Light that is in the family of lasers but it is all light therapy. It feels like a hot
rubber band hitting your face. It is treatment of choice for rosacea. Basically, it is perfect for
cleaning out facial telangiectasias, skin vascularity, generalized redness, and erythema. It boosts collagen for
three months. It shrinks pores. It is also great for pigment like sunspots and age spots and melasma. Minimal to
no down time, you look lightly pink, less than an hour. No swelling.