Dr. Charles Mok explains fractional versus traditional skin resurfacing. Fractional removes about 20% deep tissue and 30% superficial tissue across 50% of the skin, allowing controlled treatment with less downtime. Skin heals from stem cells around hair follicles and the basement membrane.
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For removing approximately 20% of the deep tissue and approximately 30% of the superficial tissue. We're getting at 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. 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. This has become the standard of care where we can have a good aggressive deep treatment that we really control the downtime and the risks associated with these full resurfacing, fully ablative lasers.