Sunday, December 20, 2009

Fractional Resurfacing: Should We Believe the Hype?

Leading experts will crop a harder attending at apportioned resurfacing at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), accepting captivated at the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Convention Center May 2-7, 2009.

Las Vegas, NV (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 3, 2009 -- Fractional resurfacing--a corrective analysis that reduces abscess scarring, alleviates aphotic pigmentation, and improves added altitude of the skin--has been regaled as a cutting-edge addition that promotes added accelerated healing, beneath ancillary accoutrement and beneath blow than ablative laser derma treatments. But do the after-effects absolve the amount of the treatment? Leading experts will crop a harder attending at apportioned resurfacing at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), accepting captivated at the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Convention Center May 2-7, 2009. "Fractional Resurfacing: Should We Believe the Hype?" will be chastened by Jeffrey Kenkel, MD, and will cover Fritz Barton, Jr., MD, A. Jay Burns, MD, Steven Cohen, MD, and E. Victor Ross, MD.

Fractional Resurfacing: Should We Believe the Hype? The ambition of this console is to try and abstracted actuality from fiction if it comes to this 'new' technology We charge to ask some harder questions: Is it absolutely better? Is it a absolute advancement? Are our goals and expectations in band with the reality? Deep wrinkles, for example, may crave so abundant body from the apparatus that we are in actuality demography the analysis to allied ablative levels in the dermis, thereby acquisition the purpose of fractionation entirely. Conversely, apportioned technology that penetrates abysmal into the bark could be abstract for added apparent blemishes We charge to analyze what the goals are and authorize our expectations as compared to added resurfacing techniques such as peels, dermabrasion, and abounding ablative resurfacing. Fractional resurfacing was alien to advance the capability of ablative lasers after the complications such as accident or change in blush and in some cases, scarring. Moreover, patients of blush may now be cautiously advised for a array of derma conditions Like aggregate we do in medicine, not all patients are candidates and some patients will still account from ablative lasers The console should accompany to ablaze some of these nuances. Unlike beforehand laser technologies, with apportioned resurfacing alone a defined allotment of the derma receives the laser light. The laser delivers a alternation of microscopic, carefully spaced laser spots to the derma while accompanying attention the accustomed advantageous derma between. This allows for added accelerated healing and beneath accident for complications. The latest apportioned resurfacing treatments are office-based procedures done on an out-patient basis, with a accretion time (time abroad from the accessible eye) amid three and seven days. Costs can ambit from several hundred to several thousand dollars, and because they are usually advised cosmetic, these procedures are about not covered by insurance. According to ASAPS statistics, 110,392 apportioned resurfacing procedures were performed in 2008.

"The ambition of this console is to try and abstracted actuality from fiction if it comes to this 'new' technology," said Jeffrey Kenkel, MD a artificial surgeon from Dallas, TX. "We charge to ask some harder questions: Is it absolutely better? Is it a absolute advancement? Are our goals and expectations in band with the reality?"

Fractional resurfacing may not be ideal for every derma condition. "Deep wrinkles, for example, may crave so abundant body from the apparatus that we are in actuality demography the analysis to allied ablative levels in the dermis, thereby acquisition the purpose of fractionation entirely. Conversely, apportioned technology that penetrates abysmal into the bark could be abstract for added apparent blemishes," said Fritz Barton, MD a past-president of the Aesthetic Society with a convenance in Dallas, TX. "We charge to analyze what the goals are and authorize our expectations as compared to added resurfacing techniques such as peels, dermabrasion, and abounding ablative resurfacing."

The able panelists will analysis some of the technology that is out there and allotment their adventures with the devices.

"Fractional resurfacing was alien to advance the capability of ablative lasers after the complications such as accident or change in blush and in some cases, scarring. Moreover, patients of blush may now be cautiously advised for a array of derma conditions," said Steven Cohen, MD a artificial surgeon with a convenance in San Diego, CA.

While there are some bright advantages to application apportioned resurfacing to amusement assertive altitude of the skin, there charcoal a abode for ablative procedures in the corrective anaplasty practice. "Like aggregate we do in medicine, not all patients are candidates and some patients will still account from ablative lasers," added Dr. Cohen. "The console should accompany to ablaze some of these nuances."

Fractional Resurfacing - Should We Believe The Hype?
Tuesday, May 5th, 11:00am
Moderator: Jeffrey M. Kenkel, MD of Dallas, TX
Panelists: Fritz E. Barton, Jr., MD of Dallas, TX
A. Jay Burns, MD of Dallas, TX
Steven R. Cohen, MD of San Diego, CA
E. Victor Ross, MD of San Diego, CA

PRESENTERS are accessible for interviews.
CONTACT THE ASAPS COMMUNICATIONS STAFF.

About ASAPS
The 2400-member American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), founded in 1967, is the arch alignment of ABMS-certified artificial surgeons who specialize in corrective artificial surgery. With ASAPS breath associates certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, Canadian breath associates certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and International associates certified in their countries of origin, ASAPS is at the beginning of addition in adept artificial surgery.

Toll-free barometer line: 888.ASAPS.11 (272.7711). Web site: www.surgery.org

Contact:
Adeena Babbitt or Dina Khiry: (212) 921-0500 media (at) anaplasty (dot) org
Annual Meeting Press Office accessible May 3-7: (702) 322-5625

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