Patient education
Fractional Laser Resurfacing: Guides
Twelve guides to patterned resurfacing as it is actually planned: a pattern of columns with bridges of untouched skin between them, a smaller change per session, a course rather than a single treatment, and a recovery measured in sandpaper days rather than one long week.
All guides
12 guides
- Fractional Laser Candidacy: Who Trades One Week for a CourseCandidacy
- What the Untreated Skin Between the Columns ChangesThe pattern
- Who Should Not Have Fractional Laser ResurfacingPoor candidates
- What the Assessment Decides: Density, Depth and Session CountAssessment
- What One Fractional Session Cannot DeliverExpectations
- Fractional Recovery: The Sandpaper Days Between SessionsRecovery
- Fractional Laser Risks: Pigment Change, Infection and Border LinesRisks
- What Repeated Fractional Sessions Take Away for GoodLimits
- Alternatives to Fractional Resurfacing at Every Depth of ConcernAlternatives
- Questions to Ask Before You Commit to a Fractional CourseQuestions
- What a Fractional Course Costs in Sessions, Recovery and Time OffCost and time
- When Fractional Resurfacing Is the Wrong PlanRefusal
Is a course of patterned resurfacing the right plan for your skin?
An assessment starts with what bothers you and whether it is a surface problem at all. We will say plainly how deeply and how densely the area would be treated, how many sessions a course would take and at what interval, what each healing week involves, what the pigment risk is in your skin, and what we would advise instead if the honest answer is something else.