What are Fraxel® Laser Treatments (FLT)?
Fraxel® Laser Treatment (FLT) is the original “fractional” treatment that produces thousands of deep, tiny columns of trauma in your skin, called microthermal treatment zones (much like pixels in a digital camera). FLT is “fractional” in that it intensively treats thin columns of the skin without affecting the surrounding tissue, which reduces healing time and promotes the skin’s natural process for creating new, healthier tissue. Fraxel® Restore® is the non-ablative, low downtime technology. Deeper, faster, less painful, yet very effective are the trademarks of this technology. How is Fraxel® Restore different from Fraxel Repair and other laser treatments? Until Fraxel®, there were two types of available laser treatments. Purely ablative laser treatment (CO2 and Erbium) which was very effective but had significant side effects and lengthy healing period (weeks). The other being non-ablative, had zero downtime but had very little clinical effect. Fraxel® Restore and the more aggressive
