In the past, in order for patients to have a ‘WOW’ type of result, they had to commit to an ablative procedure and a lengthy recovery. If they couldn’t, they were offered non-ablative treatments and often had to settle for marginal results. We’ve tried to simplify this by giving the PROs and CONs of each.

ABLATIVE LASERS

• PROs
  • delivers a ‘WOW’ result; smoother, tighter skin with increased collagen
  • usually requires only 1 treatment
• CONs
  • removes 100% of the uppermost layers of the skin
  • longer recovery and downtime
  • more painful

NON-ABLATIVE LASERS

• PROs
  • leaves the uppermost layers of the skin intact
  • little to no downtime
  • minimal discomfort
• CONs
  • requires several treatments
  • can never deliver the results of an ablative treatment because it doesn’t treat the top layers of the skin

The Halo™ hybrid fractional laser is the best of both worlds. It delivers the results of an ablative laser treatment with the downtime of a non-ablative laser treatment.