Traditional and Fractional Skin Resurfacing

Name: Traditional and Fractional Skin Resurfacing
Uploaded: 2025-04-24T12:00:37+00:00
Duration: 44 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: This content was created by Dr. Charles Mok. This content was uploaded by Dr. Charles Mok. This is a YouTube video titled "Traditional and Fractional…

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This content was created by Dr. Charles Mok. This content was uploaded by Dr. Charles Mok. This is a YouTube video titled "Traditional and Fractional Skin Resurfacing" (created 2025-04-24). The excerpt is a technical/explanatory segment by a single speaker describing skin resurfacing techniques—contrasting traditional full (ablative) resurfacing with fractional resurfacing, noting approximate percentages of deep and superficial tissue removal, the role of stem cells around hair follicles in re-epithelialization, historical practice (circa 2004–2005) and how fractional approaches provide aggressive treatment while better controlling downtime and risks.

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Approximately 20%.

Approximately 30%.

About 50% coverage altogether.

Around 2004–2005.

About 20 years ago.

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For removing approximately 20% of the deep tissue and approximately 30% of the superficial tissue. We're getting a 50% coverage altogether. We get strong regrowth of your skin. And the way it works is you can actually remove significant portion of the outer layer of your skin all the way through the basement membrane where the stem cells are at and the hair follicles. The stem cells around hair follicles were completely re epithelialized or regrow the skin. And that's how we did traditional resurfacing part about 2004 and 5. It still happens today, but it's just not that common in this fract. Was introduced again about 20 years ago, and this has become the standard of care where we can have a good aggressive, deep treatment. Then we really control the downtime and the risks associated with these full resurfacing, fully ablative lasers.