Contour TRL Lasers
Years of sun exposure can damage your skin and cause you to develop visible signs of aging, including fine lines, wrinkles, sun spots, and other skin imperfections. These skin conditions can be minimized with laser skin resurfacing treatments. One such effective laser peel is called the Contour TRL. It is a cutting-edge cosmetic treatment from Sciton that can smooth away the years. Continue reading to find out more about this treatment and how it can be tailored for your skin condition, desired results, and downtime allowed.
What is a laser peel?
With age as well as sun exposure, most people develop wrinkles and pigment irregularities, especially around the lips and eyes. A laser peel is a safe and effective way to address these problems by fading them or eliminating them completely. There are several different types of laser peels available. The Contour TRL is widely regarded as one of the best laser peels to reduce or eliminate signs of aging in the face.
What is the Sciton Contour TRL laser?
The Sciton Contour Tunable Resurfacing Laser (TRL) is an Erbium Yag laser. It is effective in erasing signs of aged and damaged skin. It also promotes skin renewal for a more youthful appearance.
Contour TRL laser treatments are offered in plastic surgery or cosmetic surgery offices. Each session typically lasts 15 to 30 minutes. The laser system is designed such that the treatment can be tailored to each patient with independent coagulation and ablation controls.
This enables the skin specialist to apply the laser energy at a depth that is most suitable for your specific skin problems. People with more severe signs of aging can undergo deep resurfacing while those with less severe changes can undergo less aggressive treatment, with the downtime depending on the depth.
How does Contour TRL work?
The energy produced by the Contour TRL erbium YAG laser removes the top layer of skin that is damaged, dry, and uneven, with lines and wrinkles. This deep resurfacing kickstarts the body's natural healing process and stimulates the growth of new collagen. Collagen is the protein in skin that gives it structure, thickness, and resilience. The laser procedure also promotes the growth of new healthy cells to give you a revitalized and rejuvenated appearance with younger, smoother, tighter skin.
Contour TRL is unique among laser skin resurfacing procedures because the physician can precisely adjust the depth of the treatment down to the last micron in the top layer of skin. This allows your provider to control the amount of energy needed to give you the desired outcome.
What conditions does it treat?
Contour TRL is mainly used to treat the face and neck. However, it can be used to treat your skin in other areas of the body. Some of the conditions Contour TRL can treat include deep wrinkles and lines around the mouth and eyes, sun damage, poor skin tone, rough texture, acne scars, skin laxity, large pore size, pigmentation changes, and actinic keratoses (pre-cancerous lesions).
Am I a candidate for Contour TRL?
Men and women with all skin types and tones can benefit from Contour TRL laser treatment. This cutting-edge laser safely and effectively removes damaged surface layers of skin with micron precision. It removes a layer of dead skin and improves the skin's appearance without invasive surgery or a lengthy downtime.
If you are bothered by sun damage, problematic lines around the mouth and eyes, poor tone texture, pigment irregularities, acne scars, or other skin blemishes that have not improved with regular skin care, you could benefit from Contour TRL deep laser resurfacing.
In general, any patient who is in good overall health and has realistic expectations in terms of the outcomes can undergo a laser peel to improve deep wrinkles and the skin's texture. It is worth noting, however, that you may need to take some time off for comfortable recovery from TRL Contour.
What will happen during the skin resurfacing procedure?
Consultation
Your aesthetician or skincare provider will evaluate your skin, review your health history and current medications, and answer all your questions concerning skin resurfacing at the time of your initial consultation. Once they have established your aesthetic goals, they will recommend a personalized deep skin resurfacing treatment plan.
Preparation
You will be advised to temporarily discontinue certain medications such as blood thinners, aspirin, ibuprofen, and fish oil for two weeks before your laser resurfacing treatment. You will also be asked to discontinue use of retinol skin care products prior to your appointment. If you smoke, it is highly recommended that you stop for two weeks before and two weeks after your Contour TRL session because smoking can delay healing. If you have a history of cold sores or fever blisters, you should let your aesthetic provider know so that they can prescribe you medication to reduce the risk of infection.
Procedure
Your provider will first clean your skin. They will give you safety shields for your eyes. Next, they will slide the laser device across your skin. A computer guided scanner is used to map the movement of the laser beam in the treatment area. The procedure takes anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes depending on the size of the treatment area.
How painful is Contour TRL laser treatment?
The amount of discomfort experienced with laser resurfacing varies from patient to patient. One factor that affects the comfort level during treatment is the depth of treatment. Patients having a shallow procedure can have it done with a local anesthetic. A deeper peel may be done with a topical anesthetic or IV sedation for greater patient comfort.
How long will it take to recover?
You should expect some redness, swelling, and a sunburn-like rawness to your skin. Some patients experience a tightness and warmth. If there is mild oozing and seeping, you should not worry. Your provider can give you pain medicine if you feel like you're too uncomfortable.
The Contour TRL penetrates to the deep layers of the skin. For this reason, patients should give themselves at least one week off from work to recover. There can be some post-procedure redness for 10 to 14 days.
The time required for complete healing depends on the depth of treatment. Most patients can resume normal activities 3 to 5 days after shallower treatments. The recovery period can be up to 2 weeks after deeper treatments.
What kind of aftercare will I need to do?
You should keep your skin moisturized and avoid picking any peeling skin after your Contour TRL procedure. Always use sunscreen - this will help to maintain your results. Your provider will give you further instructions about skin care after your laser peel.
When will I see results from Contour TRL?
You will have noticeable improvement in your skin tone as well as texture about 2 weeks following the Contour TRL treatment. After the initial period of healing, your skin will appear smoother, softer, plumper, and younger as the new collagen forms. The final results after Contour TRL will be visible after 3-4 months. It is worth noting that results can vary from patient to patient depending on the skin condition prior to treatment.
How many treatments will I need?
Contour Tunable Resurfacing Laser performs deep laser resurfacing. As a result, just one session can result in a noticeable reduction in fine lines and wrinkles and a smoother skin tone. However, the results can vary from patient to patient. In general, results are more dramatic with deeper treatments. After multiple treatments, usually one to four, many patients find that scars and pigmentation have completely disappeared. The skin's texture continues to improve with the growth of new collagen 4 to 6 months after Contour TRL.
Your plastic surgery office will develop a personalized plan for your laser treatments based on your skin texture tone, lines, wrinkles, and age spots, etc. The plan could include one or more Contour TRL treatments or a combination of treatments for the best results.
Ready for a skin makeover?
Contour TRL can help you achieve a significant reduction in fine lines and wrinkles. It can tighten and lift your skin, make the tone more even, improve overall skin texture, address hyperpigmentation, and smooth away acne scars. You will come away with healthier skin and long-term improvements in your skin's appearance, helping you look years younger - all with one treatment in the office done with local anesthetic (numbing cream).
When it comes to laser treatments, expertise makes a huge difference. Customized laser skin rejuvenation treatments like Contour TRL require extraordinary precision and the expertise of specialists to correctly judge the amount of energy needed to treat your skin. The MeTime app makes it easy to find board certified dermatologists and plastic surgery offices that offer Contour TRL laser treatment. You can chat with experts, upload pictures, do a video consult, and have suggestions sent directly to you. What are you waiting for? Download the MeTime app today!
