Micro Ablative Laser Skin Renewal
-Anti-Aging & Regenerative Medicine
-Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
-Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery
Dr. Goodnight knew he wanted to be a plastic surgeon since he started medical school. He chose the training that offered him the most experience in facial plastic surgery as this area has the greatest concentration of technically demanding cosmetic surgeries. Thus Dr. Goodnight did his Head and Neck Surgery training at UCLA Medical Center where he performed hundreds of facial cosmetic & econstructive surgeries. He spent much of his chief residency year with the facial plastic surgery masters in Beverly Hills, California. He then did a facial plastic surgery fellowship where he refined his training and mastered his techniques. Dr. Goodnight has been tightening skin with the CO2 laser for decades and he now recommends the fractional CO2 laser since you heal more quickly. He is one of the few facial plastic surgoens to be trained in the techniques to rejuvenate your skin outside and in.
SmartSkin is a fractional carbon dioxide (C02) laser. Like other fractional laser skin resurfacing devices, it works by splitting the laser’s light into tiny beams that are each about one-tenth the size of a hair shaft. The light penetrates the skin to a controlled depth, where its heat vaporizes the targeted cells, while leaving the tiny areas around each tiny beam of light untouched. Only about 20 to 30 percent of the targeted area is actually treated, yet the entire area benefits from the process and eventually becomes rejuvenated. Since less skin is actually damaged by the laser, the recovery time is generally shorter than with non-fractional C02 lasers.
Resurfaces and Rejuvenates; SmartSkin is an ablati ve laser, which means it removes the outermost top layer of the epidermis, the stratum corneum. The heat from the laser light also reaches the dermis, however, where it remodels the skin by stimulating the formation of new collagen, the protein that gives skin youthful, healthy-looking volume. The loss of skin volume (usually as the result of sun damage) is what causes lines and wrinkles to form.
What It Treats: SmartSkin helps minimize fine lines and wrinkles and promotes a more even skin tone and texture. It also helps resolve other skin problems associated with aging, such as solar lentigines (better known as age spots), keratoses (tiny raised bumps on the skin), and wide pores. In addition, the SmartSkin laser has been found to be effective in reducing the appearance of acne scars.
How Long Are Treatments? Treatments generally take about 20 minutes. You can opt for a single aggressive treatment session or several less-aggressive ones that are spaced over several weeks. After the procedure you’ll feel,and look, as if you’ve had a sunburn. The more aggressive the treatment, the more redness and swelling you’ll experience -and the more time you’ll need to recover. Most people feel comfortable returning to their normal activities within 4 day s or so.
