CoZmedic Surgery Associates of Michigan (Skin Rejuvenation and Hair Removal)

The Harmony® Multi-Application System is the world's most sophisticated, expandable platform for aesthetic laser and light treatments. It uses up to seven distinct technologies built into one compact unit.

With the advent of Harmony®, we can now perform the widest range of applications ever available on a single system. Harmony's technologies have been carefully selected and refined to not only provide excellent safety and efficacy, but to ensure the highest levels of predictability, reliability and reproducible results.

Photoepilation, or 'hair removal using light,' has gained dramatic popularity over the past several years. Excellent clinical results, as well as low-risk success for many practices have contributed greatly to the sensation of this amazing procedure.

While many methods can eliminate unwanted hair, very few can eliminate hair regrowth while leaving the surrounding skin undamaged. And Photoepilation is quickly becoming the most popular.

Lasers and light sources use the principle of selective photothermolysis to eliminate hair and its potential regrowth without damaging the surrounding skin. During a treatment, light passes through the skin and is absorbed by the melanin in the hair shaft. This absorption raises the temperature of the hair follicle and thermally destroys the cells responsible for regrowth. The attributes of the light (wavelength, pulse duration and power) are chosen to ensure damage to these cells and not the rest of the skin.

Harmony™ provides safe and effective methods of delivering to their patient's predictable, reliable and reproducible Photoepilation results, including:

Nearly 100% of humans have one or more pigmented lesion. Some are cause by sun exposure, others by aging. Still others are congenital. Regardless of the cause, pigmented lesions are simply spots on the skin where there is a higher concentration of melanin. Some lesions are flat; others are raised. In most cases, pigmented lesions are merely a cosmetic concern, but in some cases, they can be an early sign of skin cancer.

For most benign pigmented lesions that are of a cosmetic concern, there is a non-surgical option using light. By exposing a pigmented lesion to short-pulses of visible light, the temperature in the highly-concentrated melanin can be raised sharply; enough to shatter the cells containing the melanin. The body then replaces these cells with new cells generated by the surrounding, untreated area.

As the last of the Baby Boomers (those born 1946 to 1964) turn 40 this year, the popularity of aesthetic procedures that aim to turn back the clock is skyrocketing. Brown spots, broken capillaries and other fallout from photoaging are easy targets for systems that use broadband light to repair these defects through a process called photorejuvenation. Additionally, facial wrinkles can now be treated non-ablatively, contributing to a more youthful appearance.

Using relatively low-energy, short-pulse broadband light, imperfections such as erythema of rosacea, superficial telangectasia, dyschromia, age spots and other discolored signs of photoaging can be gently heated and eliminated, replaced by newer, younger looking skin.

Using 1064-nm, infrared laser energy to heat the skin's microvasculature and provide dermal heating that stimulates the growth of new collagen, facial wrinkles can be eliminated easily and non-ablatively.

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A PIXEL is a technique to remove the upper layers of the skin. The depth of the peel depends on the power settings and the number of passes used. The PIXEL can provide a partial to full epidermal removal (20-50 microns deep), as opposed to microdermabrasion which acts only on the stratum corneum layer of the skin (10-15 microns deep). In addition to its beneficial effects on the outer layers of the skin, it also stimulates collagen production and remodeling in the deeper layers of the skin. The procedure is more controlled than a chemical peel and it avoids the use of harsh chemicals to refine the skin. The complication rate from the PIXEL is very low. With the controlled resurfacing associated with this more aggressive peel, one should expect tangible and visible reduction in sun damage and fine lines in the skin after one procedure.

The PIXEL delivers results on par with ablative lasers, but it eliminates possible side effects of ablative treatments such as hypo- or hyper-pigmentation, post-operative infection, swelling, erythema or edema. In addition, the PIXEL can be used on the face, neck, chest, arms, stomach and hands-a much wider scope than the traditional ablative technologies.

Skin resurfacing with the PIXEL is a gradual process that happens over several treatments. Treatments are fast, thanks to the large spot size and high 2 Hz repetition rate. Because re-epithelialization occurs quite quickly in the treatment zone, the risk of infection is reduced significantly from previous conventional treatment methods.

How PIXEL Works

A preprogrammed laser beam passes through the patented PIXEL micro optics lens and penetrates the skin. It creates an ablative and thermal effect at the pixel area-a micro-injury-without disturbing the surrounding tissue. Those micro-injured areas start the process of healing as collagen remodels, skin tightens and the skin texture improves. Patients will find the skin around the treatment area feeling firmer and tighter, with a smoother surface texture. They will not need analgesics or pain medication with the PIXEL, and they can return to work immediately after treatment.

NIR Skin Tightening

Skin remodeling occurs at cellular and molecular levels via the intervention of optical or thermal energy. The NIR Skin Tightening treatment exerts its biological effect on the skin through two major mechanisms: 1) heat-induced collagen shrinkage and micro-thermal injury and; 2) dermis regeneration, repair (wound healing) and remodeling. Cellular contraction involves the initiation of an inflammatory/wound healing sequence that is perpetuated over several weeks. Following cellular contraction, collagen is laid down as a static supporting matrix in the tightened soft tissue structure.

Harmony Literature

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