The Erbium Laser

The Erbium laser provides a safe and accurate method of restoring softer and smoother skin. Patients can have their procedure performed in the office and be home within a few hours.

Erbium laser skin resurfacing is a procedure specifically designed to remove superficial and moderately deep skin irregularities layer by layer, with excellent control of the depth of treatment. This laser produces less heating of surrounding tissues than the traditional CO2 laser used for resurfacing. Most cases require only a local and topical anesthetic.

What are the benefits of Erbium laser skin resurfacing?

• Erbium laser skin resurfacing is a safe, reliable, out patient procedure.
• Skin resurfacing with the Erbium laser can be performed with local or topical anesthesia in many cases.
• Resurfacing with the Erbium laser produces fewer unwanted side-effects and complications.
• Erbium lasers can sometimes be used on the neck, chest and hands.
• With the Erbium laser it is often possible to treat darker pigmented skin tones.
• Treatment with the Erbium laser produces minimal heating and burning of surrounding tissue.
• Healing is more rapid because the Erbium laser causes minimal redness, swelling, and bruising.

Erbium laser skin resurfacing is a procedure specifically designed to remove superficial and moderately deep lines and wrinkles on the face. The Erbium laser produces less heating or burning of surrounding tissues than other lasers used for resurfacing. This allows your doctor to gently and comfortably vaporize the damaged skin cells layer by layer. Recent studies have shown that the Erbium laser stimulates the production of collagen, creating a tightening and smoothing of the skin.

Before and After:

1540 Fractional Resurfacing Palomar developed and patented Fractional Laser technology to create a revolutionary treatment: non-ablative skin resurfacing* without downtime. The Palomar Lux1540 Fractional™ laser is the latest generation in skin resurfacing techology. It smooths fine lines and wrinkles, and improves skin discoloration, without downtime.

The Palomar™ laser is an advancement over the Fraxel® laser, both of which work by treating only a portion of the targeted skin at a time. The Palomar 1540 Fractional™ laser delivers light in an array of microbeams. These microbeams penetrate below the epidermis and into the dermis, sparing tissue surrounding each microbeam from damage. The tissue within these beams initiates a natural healing process that accelerates the formation of new, healthy collagen and the fractional treatment of the skin allows for faster healing with no down time. The result is visible improvement in skin color, texture, tone, fine lines and wrinkles.

Palomar™ 1540 fractional skin resurfacing treatments are effective only when performed in a series of sessions because each session treats only 20 to 25 percent of the skin. By treating micro-island of skin, the surrounding untreated skin drives the healing process, filling in the treated area with healthy, more youthful looking skin. The "fractional" treatment of the skin creates radiant skin without the down time associated with traditional skin resurfacing technologies.

Throughout the process, the integrity of the skin is maintained, which protects the tissue from infection as it heals. At left: Cross-section of treated skin.

High Efficacy, No Downtime
The Palomar Lux1540 offers greater energy per microbeam, and greater depth of penetration (up to 1 mm) than any competing device. This stimulates quick healing within the surrounding deep tissue for the most effective deep corrections. In addition, the Lux1540 delivers uniform microbeam penetration, a consistency that can't be matched by systems that use a scanning approach.

Safety and Comfort
The Palomar Lux1540 delivers its microbeams in one short pulse at a time with active contact cooling. This allows the treatments to be significantly more comfortable than the Fraxel or systems that deliver beams over longer periods of time. The Palomar Lux1540 does not require anesthesia nor dye application, making it a more pleasant and easier stretch mark removal treatment for the patient.