Fractional Laser Treatment: Breakthroughs

Fraxel came out is a special erbium glass fiber laser that was non ablative, meaning that it did not cause open wounds. But it's still called a similar tissue injury that had a much shorter downtime. That was the first breakthrough. The second breakthrough, it was called a fractionated laser. So fractionated laser means instead of taking off an entire section of tissue, it would drill little holes into the tissue, cause both areas of injury, called MTZs, micro thermal zones. And this was a breakthrough technology where we could do a really aggressive laser treatment and let the patient get back to work and, you know, the next day and not have any open wounds and then maybe some redness and peeling that occurs a few days. But is this some social downtime? It doesn't keep you from doing things. So that was a significant breakthrough.