A small study of the 2910-nm erbium-doped fluoride glass fiber laser for facial ablation showed that patients had faster recovery times and less pain than with conventional lasers.
glass fiber laser, approved 2 years ago by the US Food and Drug Administration, has demonstrated a high degree of improvement for facial photoaging and rhytides along with relatively high rates of patient satisfaction — while causing less discomfort and downtime compared with conventional fractional lasers, a small single-center study showed.
Because of the way the pulses are delivered,"it's far less painful than traditional fractional ablative lasers, so you can use mainly topical numbing; you don't need nerve blocks, you don't have to infiltrate"Because of the wavelength, how pulses are delivered and how customizable the settings are, it's safer to use in darker skin types," and the density, depth, and the amount of coagulation applied into the skin are customizable, Murray added.
When the patients themselves reviewed the digital images, the average GAIS score was 3.8 for overall appearance. Most people are using this laser for facial resurfacing,"and we want to know that we have a technology…with shorter downtime and easier."To be able to do the levels of facial resurfacing is doing without having to do all of that pain management is pretty amazing," Swali added.
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