"You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!" Dr. Evil (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery)

The second procedure that I was to endure was Laser Therapy.  This was definitely the most painful and disturbing of the treatments.  So, after he had finished with the INTRAcel Micro Needling, he switched machines and took out the lasers.  From my perspective as the patient, the sensation was akin to getting a tattoo but on your face.  You can hear the "Snap! - Snap! - Snap!" inches from your ears as a laser is fired in succession at your face, basically burning the epidermis.  I think even worse than the pain, is the fact that you can smell your own skin being burn off.  My nostrils were flooded with the smell of singed flesh and I tried really hard to imagine something else and relax through this, but it is really hard to go somewhere else in your mind when your face is being burnt off.

After the high powered laser, a second laser, the Fraxel Laser was used.  This procedure was similar to the previous however instead of burning my epidermis, he slowly ran the laser along the contours of my face and over the entire surface area.  The sensation was much more mild and felt a little like getting shocked continuously (like when you were a kid in woolen socks shuffling on carpet to build up an electric charge to shock your siblings). The Fraxel laser works by controlled damage of the scarred areas.  It effectively further damages your skin in small areas separated by healthy skin and purposefully stimulates the body’s own restorative processes.. Reaching deep into the skin’s second layer, the dermis, Fraxel helps to stimulate the body’s restorative abilities and thus new collagen and skin is formed. Older skin that is damaged is removed from beneath the epidermal layer, the outermost area of skin.

More about Fraxel Lasering here:
http://www.dermanetwork.org/information/fraxel.asp

http://english.oracleclinic.com/xe/index.php?mid=wrinkles

http://www.fraxel.com/