Laser for Stretch Marks

Recent stretch marks will show changes with a higher presence of blood vessels, in a process similar to the healing of wounds under tension. The changes include symptoms such as itching, which in turn increases local trauma.

Ablative lasers such as CO2 laser will not lead to improvement at this stage of stretch marks. Using creams can alleviate symptoms, but they do not collapse the blood vessels. Once the redness ceases, the resulting skin will show linear depressions.

In the process of all this evolution, there are many actions that can be taken. In principle, the Fraxel® 1550 laser is the most used at this stage.

It has the greatest capacity for both remodeling fibrosis and controlling the increase of vascular networks that are inaccessible to other types of lasers.

Old stretch marks that retain at least 50% of the thickness of the unaffected skin and generally have varying degrees of loss of skin color.

The laser used in these cases will cause inflammation, which will provoke a response that can lead to leveling according to the evolution time of the stretch mark and the existing sub-level.

In principle, treating old stretch marks and those at a greater sub-level through controlled inflammation and the application of topical or injected biostimulators will create greater patient loyalty to the therapy, as long as an attractive relationship with the results is achieved.

Cases with greater unevenness will need more applications and a higher frequency of sessions. Given that, with greater tissue aggression, inflammation will be prolonged longer, and their results will never be more complete.

Prolonged inflammation will lead to hyperpigmentation in darker skin; therefore, it must be sustained and controlled.