Laser - Eliminate Wrinkles

As you age, your skin’s collagen and elastin simply break down faster than your body can rebuild them. The slowed remodeling of these skin-tightening proteins causes your skin to thin, droop and lose elasticity – which often leads to winkles, furrows and fine lines.

Causes

If you have wrinkles on your face or around your eyes, you’ve probably had a wonderful life rich with laughter and emotional experiences. After all, expressions like smiling, laughing, pondering and squinting naturally involve the contraction of muscles – which can lead to wrinkles, furrows and fine lines. Wrinkles can develop most anywhere, but the skin around your eyes is especially vulnerable because it’s more delicate and tends to age more rapidly than skin on other areas of the body. These wrinkles around the eyes are also called “crow’s feet” or “periorbital wrinkles.”

Treatment

Unfortunately, many of the quick-fix “beauty in a bottle” products and other treatments are a vortex of empty promises: You get caught in an endless, expensive, risky and sometimes painful search for something that works. You may have experimented with acid peels, injectable fillers, collagen, dermabrasion or traditional laser treatment.

Fraxel treatment is a more gentle and effective option, which has been approved by the FDA to improve the appearance of wrinkles, including those on the sensitive areas around the eyes. Fraxel treatment is different because it treats one fraction of tissue at a time with thousands of microscopic laser columns. These columns stimulate a natural healing process that works from the inside out, expediting the production of collagen and elastin, which results in tighter, fresher, more youthful-looking skin.

“The results we are seeing for periorbital wrinkles and photodamage (sun damage) are remarkable. There is no other laser that can achieve such dramatic benefits with virtually no risks or interruption to patients’ routine activities.” – Dr. Richard Fitzpatrick, dermatologist, La Jolla, CA

Prevention

To help prevent wrinkles and fine lines around the eyes, wear sunscreen during the day and a high-quality cream at night. Wear sunglasses or a hat to minimize squinting in the sun.