The fraxel laser, which has been hailed as the newest technology in laser therapy with virtually no downtime because of how it treats areas of skin “fraxel by fraxel”, or tiny area by tiny area, and requires many revisits to complete, may also be useful in treating and eliminating those pesky stretch marks that both men and women can get. Women are more susceptible usually because they often get them from being pregnant. The skin stretches out so much during pregnancy that the skin then becomes permanently discolored in those areas.
Dermatologists compare stretch marks on the body to the effect of a rubber band being stretched for a long period of time. Have you ever seen a rubber band that has been around a bunch of papers for a long time? It starts to lose its elasticity and eventually it gets little “stretch marks” of whiteness and it never snaps back into the same size again, which is the same thing that can happen in the skin when something happens that causes great weight gain followed by great amounts of weight loss.
Those that have had the stomach surgery to lose weight many times will suffer from stretch marks because their skin had been expanded for so long, many times over years and years, and suddenly when the body downsizes, the skin never snaps back into it’s place so that it’s all one even tone again. However, people with stretch marks now have the options to get treatments done with the Frazel laser, which some say is one of the most amazing and effective stretch mark treatments around. It is expensive though, but most laser type treatments are.
It is noninvasive, and it penetrates the top layer of skin, and it stimulates collagen. Results are not seen right away, and usually it requires a few weeks of treating the skin and letting it heal before the results become evident. To avoid getting stretch marks the best you can, it is imperative that you choose a good moisturizer on your whole body. Hopefully you do this every day, I know lots of women do their moisturizer after their showers, which is a great habit to get into, because the more elasticity and moisture your skin has, the less likely these spots will ever appear if you happen to lose a lot of weight.
