Acne Scars and More - High-Tech Miracles for Better Skin

Acne pit marks. Red blotches on your cheeks. Stretch marks. Brown sunspots. Hate what you see when you look in the mirror? Well, good news - thanks to a laser technology, skin flaws that were once considered permanent can now be erased.

Acne scars. The FDA has just approved the wrinkle smoothing Fraxel laser for those unsightly "pits". In clinical trials, acne scars were significantly reduced within three months for 92% of subjects. The Fraxel penetrates deep into the skin's middle layer, where it breaks up scar tissue and stimulates collagen production to fill in the indentations. And because only about 15% of the skin is treated at one time, you can go to work the next day with your face only a little red. The cost starts at about $500 a session, with four to six sessions required.

Rosacea. The telltale broken red blood vessels on the nose and cheeks can be completely eliminated with the pulsed dye laser. It sends a laser burst that goes right through the skin to the blood vessel, which gets hot super quickly and is "cooked" shut without affecting the surrounding skin. The cost starts at about $800.

Stretch marks. Prescription retinoid creams like Retin-A and Renova will improve early red stretch marks after a few months. Now, older, white marks can be zapped with the Fraxel laser, with as much as a 75% improvement after four treatments. Cost starts at about $500.

If you have small brown blotches on your skin, you can get rid of them. Intense- pulsed light, which is not a laser, but a bright light, simultaneously closes broken blood vessels and gets rid of the brown spots caused by the sun. The cost is about $300 a treatment and about two to four treatments are required.

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