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Fifty-seven Middle Eastern patients with Fitzpatrick skin types IV and V had their acne scars treated with fractional CO2. Their clinic used a cus...

In 2003, six Thai women with stubborn melasma had one side of the face treated with an ultrapulse CO2 laser plus a pigment laser. The other side ...

One clinic reviewed 684 facial moles removed with a CO2 laser. Eighty-one percent cleared in a single session. Most of the rest needed one or tw...

Twenty-four Thai patients had acne scars treated with fractional erbium on one side of the face and fractional CO2 on the other. Six months after ...

In one Iranian study, 46 white stretch marks were treated with fractional CO2. Another 46 on the same patients got a nightly glycolic acid and tr...

Thirty patients in India each got fractional CO2 on the right cheek and microneedling on the left. Four sessions later, scar grades on the CO2 si...

Crow's feet, forehead lines, crepey lower lids, a jaw that's lost its edge. Those are the patients who ask about a CO2 laser for wrinkles. Some o...

One test sums up the ablative vs non ablative laser question. If the treated skin oozes, the laser was ablative. If it doesn't, it wasn't. That r...

The idea started by accident. During a tattoo trial in New York, researchers noticed that one patient's scars and stretch marks had softened along...