Laser Skin Resurfacing

Every procedure requires some for of anesthesia and traditionally this is a General Anesthesia, meaning you are completely knocked out.  At Facial Beauty, we utilize cutting-edge local anesthesia procedures where you are not fully knocked out but completely comfortable. The advantage of Local Anesthesia that there are less complications & faster recovery time. Our procedures generally take from an hour and thirty minutes to no more than three hours, allowing us to dramatically reduce any risk involved in the procedure.

The biggest drawback to major facial surgery is the downtime.  While recovery time can vary case by case, generally patients can return to work between seven to ten days after the procedure.  We do everything we can for our patients to get you back to your family and back to your daily life of activity & exercise as soon as possible.

At Facial Beauty, we offer low monthly payment plans and pre-qualifications for any additional treatments, affordability has never been easier. If you’ve ever let financing stand in your way of a new you, come talk to us about options you may not know you had. We can even do pre-approvals over the phone so please feel free to contact us anytime.

A message about laser resurfacing from Dr. Santos: 

Pristine, silky, and smooth skin is the hallmark of youth and facial beauty.  Loss of our youth and beauty happens because of aging and because of exposure to a number of harsh elements over the years.  Specifically, sun exposure can significantly damage of the skin, cause sun spots, wrinkling, keratosis, blotchy age spots, weathered appearance and loss of skin tone and texture. There is a loss of fat, loss of elasticity, and loss of youthfulness and aesthetic attractiveness.  Other contributing factors causing damaged and aging skin includes time related ageing of the skin, poor nutrition, smoking, and medical illnesses.  Also, our facial skin beauty is an indicator of how healthy we are.  Healthy skin suggests a healthy mind and body. Thus it can be said, that as the facial skin health goes, so goes the health of the individual.
For those individuals who want to make a substantial improvement in their overall facial skin youthful appearance, fractionated CO2 laser treatment has become the number one option. For decades, laser skin resurfacing has been a wonderful treatment to improve the youthfulness and restore and rejuvenate facial skin.  Fractionated CO2 laser is safe and improves skin tone, skin texture, also softens acne scars, removes fine wrinkles, and improves the coarseness of the wrinkles of the folds of the face.  What is very attractive about fractionated CO2 laser treatment is that it provides skin tightening as well.
CO2 laser skin resurfacing is a very powerful tool and the gold standard for rejuvenation of facial skin.  Specifically, the addition of fractionation to CO2 laser treatment technology has brought greater safety and efficacy to skin resurfacing.  Fractionation laser treatments deliver laser to only a “fractional” portion of the skin surface, therefore leaving a small bridge of untouched skin in between the treated areas.  This untouched skin provides an excellent source for fast rejuvenation of skin during the healing process.  The healing process is therefore faster and enables the individual patient to return to normal activities quicker, and the potential risk for complications such as persistent redness diminishes. Fractionated CO2 laser, provides a significant improvement in wrinkling, redness, blotchiness, brown spots, keratosis, and bumps and lumps.  Although there are a variety of techniques available for facial skin rejuvenation, and indeed there are multiple aesthetic lasers, the fractionated CO2 laser system provides the time-tested, dependable, and successful facial rejuvenation and is the most desirable tool for improvement in one’s facial skin health.
Laser resurfacing is often performed concomitant with other rejuvenation procedure such as blepharoplasty and facelift. Facelift or natural lift techniques can provide reduction of wrinkling and smoothing of the sagging of the face and facial tissue, but the skin itself is best improved by laser resurfacing techniques.  Areas of the face that are nicely improved include the lower eyelid wrinkling, the vertical rhytids of the mouth and upper lip, and diffuse wrinkles to the cheek. Facelift alone provides significant improvement for jowls, and neck laxity, but will not provide improvement in skin integrity and texture.
Individual customization for each individual is standard for skin rejuvenation programs and complementary supplemental treatments of chemical peels and skin treatments of IPL and skin care lotions are an important element of the overall success of the facial skin rejuvenation programs.  Results depend on the specific general health of the skin, general health of the individual, type of skin, the amount of past sun exposure, and the amount of past smoking.  The overall aspiration of laser skin resurfacing is to improve the elasticity, tighten the skin, reduce the wrinkling, and provide an overall appearance of more uniformity and youthfulness of skin.  The skin will be better, but not all the elements of damage will be removed or resolved.

Sincerely,
Dr. David Santos

Dr David Santos was the Medical Director for Lifestyle Lift, responsible for hundreds of facelift surgeons and thousands of procedures.  Having performed over 4,000 facelift procedures himself, Dr. Santos is committed to finding cutting edge techniques to reduce the risk and minimize the downtime of facelift procedures.

• Member American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
• Member American Board of Otolarnyngology – Head and Neck Surgery
• Member American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery