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Lucy Brennan saw what her girlfriends had endured following various cosmetic surgery procedures and she was leery, not impressed. Some of the face lifts appeared to be too severe, and the chemical peels and laser resurfacing procedures were too aggressive. The women ’s skin lost a lot of pigmentation, and its texture made the faces look like they had been burned. And even after the skin had healed, she wasn ’t always sure the results were worth the risk. “I wasn ’t sold on a lot of those procedures. Their skin looked like they ’d been in a fire, ” she said of her girlfriends. “I didn ’t want to go through having blisters. I was waiting for something better to come along, ” she said. Brennan then learned of a technological advancement in cosmetic CO2 laser surgery that would allow her to treat her sun-damaged skin without the dreaded after affects. The procedure took less than 30 minutes and didn ’t require a full anesthesia. And when she walked out of her dermatologist ’s office, she didn ’t rush home to recuperate. “That afternoon when I had it done, I had a baseball hat and a pair of sunglasses and went shopping at Nordstrom ’s, ” said the 60-year-old interior designer. “I used to wear a heavy make-up foundation to cover up the brown sunspots. Now I just use a tinted moisturizer. ” Full recovery from the new laser surgery is estimated at 5-6 days, which allows male and female patients to avoid weeks of hibernation. And makeup can be applied to the resurfaced skin within 48 hours, a vast improvement over the 10-day recovery other procedures require. The breakthrough is the MiXto SX and MixtoSX by Lasering USA of San Ramon, California. And doctors say the system is an improvement over older CO2 laser skin resurfacing systems. Those systems demanded complete facial anesthesia because the laser beam moved across the entire surface of the face – one spot at a time, in a linear fashion – stripping the entire facial mask. This provided no cooling time for facial tissue, which led to thermal buildup, excessive pain and – guess what? – longer recovery times. Such drawbacks can be avoided with the high-speed MiXto SX and MixtoSX scanner, which divides the treatment area into quadrants, or fractions. This micro-spot method (300 microns vs. 1300 microns in other systems) skips the laser beam from one quad to the next, thus providing the longest period possible for thermal cooling of the tissue. Also, the deep penetration stimulates the production of new collagen – the fibrous protein that helps give the skin its youthful texture – within 6 to 12 weeks. Down Time Reduction Tomi Wall, Brennan ’s dermatologist, said the MiXto SX and MixtoSX is a boon to patients and doctors. Patients are happy because unlike other similar lasers, it may be performed without topical or oral anesthesia. While some form of anesthesia is necessary, it is usually only a numbing cream applied to the face, or an over-the counter analgesic tablet – both of which must be utilized before the procedure. Meanwhile, doctors are pleased because they can deliver an important service with much less "down time" and wonderful results, thus treating more people in need.

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