Channels deep enough to reach what the surface cannot.
Profractional is an ablative fractional laser. It creates narrow channels deep into the skin, treating only a fraction of the surface at a time and leaving the skin between each channel intact to speed healing.
Those channels do two things. They remove damaged tissue directly, and they prompt the skin to repair and rebuild, laying down fresh collagen over the weeks and months that follow. Because it works deep but spares the skin in between, it reaches scarring and texture that surface treatments cannot, while keeping recovery shorter than a full-field resurfacing. The result builds gradually, and deepens with a series.
The consultation
Before anything is decided, your provider studies the scarring or texture that concerns you and decides whether Profractional is the right depth for it. Because it reaches deep, into dermal thickening and the collagen beneath, the consultation is where we plan plainly what level of correction the skin needs and how it is likely to answer.
The session
The skin is cleansed and numbed well, as this laser reaches deeper than the gentle ones. Your provider then passes it across the area, creating narrow channels into the skin. Numbing keeps it comfortable, and most find it well tolerated. You go home the same day.
The days that follow
Expect redness, swelling, and a rough texture for several days, with perhaps some pinpoint oozing or bronzing at first. Keep the skin clean, moist, and fully shielded from the sun. The early healing takes several days, but the deeper result, smoother texture and softened scarring, builds over the weeks and months that follow, and often deepens across a short series.
