Stratum 1550 Fractional Skin Resurfacing Laser

Non ablative scanning 1550nm Laser for skin resurfacing, wrinkle reduction and scar revision

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1550nm NON-ABLATIVE LASER FOR SKIN RESURFACING AND REVISION OF ACNE SCARS AND STRETCH MARKS

The very latest non-ablative scanning technology for laser skin resurfacing and hypotrophic scar revision, including acne scars and striae. The introduction of a scanning fibre laser is a major innovation that has a number of advantages:

More intense treatment with improved patient comfort
Larger treatment target area
Much less risk of pigment changes
Precise and stable treatment
Wider parameter range without the need for expensive accessories
Finer control of treatment parameters

The 1550 non-ablative scanning for laser skin resurfacing is available in both desktop form as the Spectra 1550 and as the floor standing Stratum 1550. Both are excellent machines and come with the Cambridge Stratum market leading 3 year warranty.

Features and Benefits of the Spectra Resurface 1550

The Spectra 1550 is a Fractional Scanning Fibre Laser

Most fractional lasers work by splitting a laser beam into a number e.g. 100 or 324 Micro Treatment Zones (mtz). This approach has significant drawbacks:

Bulk Heating – By delivering the energy to all mtz in a single pulse there is a significant bulk heating effect which limits both the maximum fluence and the spacing of adjacent mtz.
Power Requirement – To deliver this energy simultaneously to all mtz results in a much larger, more power hungry and less portable machine.
Treatment Head size and shape – The optical beam splitter is fixed and a different set of optics is required for each density of mtz. The bulk heating and power requirements also tend to limit the effective size of the treatment head to something a bit less than 1cm x 1cm.

The Advantages of a Scanning Laser

Thermal Relaxation – By delivering each mtz one at a time the target has time to cool between mtz. This cooling effect can be enhanced by non-sequential scanning so that adjacent mtz are not delivered one directly after the other. In practise the machine will seek to maximise the time spacing between adjacent mtz.
Large Scan Area – By delivering one mtz at a time the power requirement is also reduced and combined with the reduction in bulk heating we are able to treat a much larger area in a single scan. Most current generation machines are limited to about 1cm x 1cm or 100 sq mm. The M22 from Lumenis can treat up to 18mm diameter or 255 sq mm but this is a circle which does not pack well together. The Spectra Resurface 1550 can treat a full 20mm x 20mm square or 400 sq mm in a single scan

Flexibility another great advantage of the Spectra 1550

Each array can be adjusted in both the X and Y axes independently to produce a virtually infinite range of shapes and sizes to choose from.

The clever part is that the array spacing remains constant and is independent of the scan area shape and size.

Conventional split beam lasers have 3 limitations

Bulk heating
High power requirement
Small and fixed treatment head

Scanning reduces these limitations

Reduced bulk heating
Larger 20mm x 20mm treatment area
Small and light machine

Non-sequential scanning further reduces the bulk heating

The treated micro zone is allowed to cool before the adjacent micro zones are treated
Enables higher fluence and closer spacing
Patient requires fewer treatments

Scanning sets you free

Up to 120mJ/ microbeam
Up to 20mm x 20mm target area
Up to 3025 microbeams/cm²

Ultimate flexibility

The freedom to draw any shape you wish and translate that to the target, sets a new standard in treatment precision.

Applications

Skin Resurfacing
Revision of Acne scars

Revision of Stretch Marks
Blur the edges of hypopigmented areas

Wrinkle reduction
Excellent for combination treatments

Skin toning
Female pattern hair loss

Before and After

Combination treatment of Spectra 1550 and Hi-Fu

The subject was a 27 year old mother of three, who presented with severe stretch marks together with some skin laxity and stubborn excess fat in the same area.

She is an active person who exercises 4 -5 times a week and was embarrassed by the above indications.

Following 3 treatments with the Spectra 1550 to treat the stretch marks and two Stratum SkinTyte treatments to improve the skin laxity and reduce the stubborn fat, we were very pleased to receive the following comment,

” Thanks so much…! I actually wore a bikini yesterday for the first time in 5 years!!! “