INDICATIONS FOR CO2 LASER:

THERAPEUTIC INDICTIONS:

Actinic and seborrheic keratosis, warts, moles, skin tags, epidermal and dermal nevi, vitiligo blister and punch grafting, rhinophyma, sebaceous hyperplasia, xanthelasma, syringomas, actinic cheilitis angiofibroma, scar treatment, keloid, skin cancer, neurofibroma and diffuse actinic keratoses. CO 2 laser is not recommended for the removal of tattoos.

AESTHETIC INDICATIONS:

Resurfacing for acne, chicken pox and surgical scars, periorbital and perioral wrinkles, photo ageing changes, facial resurfacing.
 
Fractional CO2 laser therapy induces:

- Production of Procollagen I and Procollagen III

- Increases of: - several Cytokines (IL1β, TNF-∞, TGFβ1)

- MMPs (-1, -3, -9)