During the ageing process the skin naturally loses, along the years, its characteristics due to sun exposure, pollution, cigarette effect, smock, stress, and different constant damages to which the skin is subjected. Some time ago the fact of willing to look better was very expensive, time-consuming and demanded subjecting oneself to important surgeries to correct the consequences. Nowadays, with all the changes science is offering, we can use a technology that effectively allows people to treat and better their skin by an ambulatory method, with no anesthesia and dismissing profit, and allows the patients to return to their social and/or labor activity on the same day.

This technology uses a last generation’s laser. It has been created for those women with great wishes of improving the esthetical aspect and who can not stop work.

This treatment is not as a expensive as Resurfacing Laser, which would be done under local anesthesia with a one-week scar, or the traditional Lifting in which the patient gets margined for 7 to 15 days not being able rejoin his social or labor activity. These traditional treatments are much more expensive from the economic point of view.

It is important that the patient understands that this laser system stimulates the formation and production of collagen and from the ninth day after the surgery, it starts showing results, getting to the best in approximately 90 days. It is necessary to state that more than one session is needed and, the most important of all is that, if the patient is an advanced age’s, a smoker, or has sunbathed too much in its life, will not obtain the same results as a person who has a better skin quality. The quantity of sessions and the treatment is subjected to the specialist doctor, previous medical query.

It is important to state that wrinkles can be the result of the combination of various factors, between them: collagen loss, solar damage, alcohol and cigarette consumption, hormonal changes and the ageing process. The collagen diminishes 1% every year starting from the 40 years of age and an intense solar exposure accelerates the ageing process with a greater collagen loss. Due to this damage on collagen’s fibres, they do not provide the proper support to the skin layers at a superficial level, provoking a depression commonly called wrinkle.

EXPECTATIONS FROM THE TREATMENT

The reduction of wrinkles is treated by a non-invasive laser method that does not require local or general anesthesia. This not-ablative (not leaving scars) laser system does not produce pain or any type of alternation in the skin.

The laser directly acts on the tissue that is under the skin stimulating the production of collagen, which will fill what is missing under each wrinkle, reducing in this way, the rut under treatment.

Each session takes from 10 to 30 minutes according to the zone and the amount of wrinkles to treat. A complete facial session that takes from 20 to 30 minutes, does not provoke pain, but can only produce a light skin’s temperature increase.

WHAT RESULTS DO WE HAVE AFTER A TREATMENT?

There is no pain, but a light reddening in some cases and the skin is not going to exhibit any type of improvement immediately. Once the session is over a moisturizing gel or similar is applied to let the patient go back to his or her normal activities including work or sports. Sun exposure is restricted for 2 to 4 days. The total result of a session is not going to show up before 60 to 90 days, despite that after 9 to 15 days the collagen formation is already being produced. These changes that the patient obtains are not going to diminish in the next months. Besides improving the aspect, one of the best recommendations of the treatment is for preventing or diminishing the cutaneous ageing through this new laser technology.