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Collagen Stimulation Laser Treatment – Reverse Wrinkles & Sagging

Collagen is the framework that your skin is built around.  It is a decrease in the concentration of collagen that results in sagging and wrinkling of skin.  Collagen is injected as a filler to reduce the appearance of wrinkles.  The injected collagen however is not replacing the natural collagen in your skin.  To do that you need to stimulate the growth of new collagen fibers within the skin itself.  We offer several levels of collagen stimulation laser treatments.  Some are no down time, like Frac3, or T3, while others are more aggressive and associated with some redness for a few hours or a few days, like various papillary dermis peels or Smooth Mode treatments.

The growth of collagen is stimulated by injury.  Heat injury is particularly good at stimulating collagen growth.  Frac3 is a 3 dimensional, subsurface, auto-selective process that targets skin imperfections within the collagen-producing layer of skin and heats them, resulting in collagen growth.  T3, is a bulk heating technique that stimulates collagen.  Both of these treatments are available on the Fotona Nd:YAG laser system.  Nd:YAG has been shown to be as or more effective than “radio frequency” treatments and with less pain.  The Fotona Er:YAG laser system with VSP technology is able to independently control depth of ablation and coagulation (heating).  So with this laser you can elect to heat not at all, a little or a LOT.  The Fotona Er:YAG, placed in smooth mode, will produce nearly pure heat for an aggressive stimulation of collagen.  To see what is possible with an advanced Fotona Collagen stimulation laser treatment, take a look at this link of before and after photos: (http://fotonamedicallasers.web5.hubspot.com/photo-b-a/)