MENTOR, OH - Laser rejuvenation by Sciton Contour™ laser precisely removes the outermost layer of the skin using a calibrated Erbium generated wavelength.  Each treatment is customized based on your skin condition and color type. Using a UV filtered photography system available in my office, I can photo-document your skin texture and the areas of severe sun damage.  This can be used in conjunction with regular photography to monitor your progress. Skin conditions such as wrinkles, injury scars, acne scars, skin laxity, large pores, keratosis, and pigment problems treated with Sciton Micro Laser Peels produce dramatic results for men and women alike. Prior to the MicroLaserPeel a topical anesthetic is applied for one hour to numb the skin. Then I will perform the treatment which will take about 20-30 minutes. I will instruct you on post laser skin care. After 2-3 days of redness the results are impressive and continue to improve for several months. This procedure can be repeated within weeks, but just a single treatment yields substantial improvement.

P.S. The Contour™ laser uniquely serves to tighten elastin and remodel collagen structural proteins while it resurfaces the skin.  

Paul Vanek, MD 

Non-invasive, non-surgical elements in tandem can yield a synergistic, more youthful appearance around the mouth. The makeup industry is a $4.2 billion effort dedicated to camouflaging progressively aging skin.  Actual physiologic improvement is the goal of plastic surgeons and biochemists like me.  Combining laser energy and lip filler modifies the tissues synergistically, solving the problem of lines around the mouth.  Lip filler (Juvederm) with a molecular content already found in your tissues (hyaluronic acid) gives you a more natural appearance and lasts about a year with a single treatment.   Using ProFractional Laser to instill a depot of energy deep into the dermis facilitates remodeling and plumping of the aged skin lines.  It heals in one day.  The volume enhancement injection and the laser-induced collagen formation make a result that is more natural, beautiful and long lasting.  The office procedure takes about 20 minutes with topical local.

P.S. SPF 15 to 25 and Kinerase ProT is used beginning 48 hours after the laser procedure. You can go out to dinner the next night! 

Mouth looking old? 

Emerging from the winter hibernation may make you feel like your skin could use some brightening and tightening.  Utilizing a revolutionary technology can really brighten the skin with a few days of down time.  A microlaser peel with erbium laser followed by a ProFractional laser treatment is called a “Mentor Peel”.  This takes advantage of removing surface irregularities with superficial erbium laser energy. In the same treatment session the ProFractional laser energy places a depot of energy deep into the dermis.  It does this through a pore size laser spot that treats 11% of the skin, leaving 89% of the skin undisturbed for healing in one day!  Think of it like lawn aeration.   Your friends will think you had sunburn over the next 3 days or so until you heal.  The patient is treated with a high tech, safe cooling device for the microlaser peel, and then anesthetized with topical local for a comfortable second phase profractional laser.  No injections. Just walk into the office and walk out on your way to remodeled, youthful skin. 

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About 5 days after your first session you can go out in the sun with SPF 25 sun block.  Make-up covers the red by the 3^rd day after the “Mentor Peel” until it fades.