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AssigneeReliant Technologies, Inc.
InventorsGeorge Frangineas, Leonard DeBenedictis, Thomas Myers, Basil Hantash
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A method of reducing wrinkles in skin includes irradiating the skin with laser pulses to ablate an array of spaced apart voids in the skin. A region of coagulated tissue surrounds each of the voids and there viable tissue between the coagulated regions. Tissue in the coagulated regions is in tension due to shrinkage of collagen by the heat generated during the ablation. This tension rapidly closes the voids, tightening the skin and reducing the wrinkles. A healing process replaces the coagulated tissue with new tissue after a period of about one-month. The method is also applicable to lightening abnormally pigmented skin, as the new tissue replacing the coagulated tissue is not abnromally pigmented.
A method of treating skin, the skin characterized as having a stratum corneum surmounting an epidermis, the epidermis surmounting a dermis, the method comprising:
A method of treating skin laxity, the skin characterized as having a stratum corneum surmounting an epidermis, the epidermis surmounting a dermis, the method comprising:
Apparatus for laser treatment of skin, the laser treatment including irradiating the skin with laser radiation in a manner such that a plurality of elongated spaced-apart voids are formed in the skin, the apparatus comprising:
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