How To Get Rid of Stretch Marks with A Laser?

Stretch marks are  unavoidable and unwelcome side effects of pregnancy for many women. Some people even get them during puberty’s growth spurts. Although keeping a healthy weight and taking care of one’s skin are positive steps, the terrible truth is that stretch marks are largely caused by heredity and hormonal changes. Read our guide to find out how to get rid of the stretch mark with a laser. 

What Is the Definition of a Stretch Mark?

Stretch marks are marks that appear when your skin rapidly expands or contracts. Skin fibers break due to a rapid shift in weight or size. Scars form when they heal. Stretch marks, also known as “striae,” develop on the belly, upper arm, buttocks, hips, and thighs and resemble streaks on the skin.

The striae can appear after rapid weight loss or gain, after quick muscle hypertrophy from bodybuilding or a growth spurt in puberty, after breast enlargement surgery, while using topical corticosteroids, or as a result of certain genetic disorders. They are most common in younger, pregnant women who have a family history of stretch marks.

What Lasers Can Do for You

Concentrated light rays are aimed at the stretch marks in laser stretch mark repair, promoting new growth of collagen and smoothing the scars. Laser treatments are termed skin resurfacing treatments, and they aid in the healing and smoothing of your skin. Newer stretch marks respond better to laser therapy.

Newer stretch marks have a reddish-pink tone, indicating active blood vessels in the skin, allowing for faster and more thorough healing following a laser treatment. The older, white striae are more difficult to repair because of the scarcity of blood vessels, which means less collagen formation.

Treatment Options

These lasers remove the outer layer of skin, leaving newer, smoother skin behind. They also cause your skin to produce collagen, which helps to smooth out the elevated scars of marks. CO2 is used to treat deeper scars, while Erbium treats stretch marks on the skin’s surface.

The Fraxel laser is a non-ablative laser, meaning it does not damage the top layer of skin. Instead, it promotes the development of collagen and elastin, which aids in the healing and fading of scars. Fraxel, like most lasers, works best on fresh stretch marks, but it also works well on older, white marks.

How To Prepare for Your Laser Treatment

First and foremost, you should be aware that you will need to schedule many sessions to receive the best results from your topical laser treatment for stretch marks. The number of sessions required is related to the severity of your marks and the type of laser employed.

However, four sessions with a couple of weeks in between each treatment is a decent average. It’s also good to expect that your stretch mark will not completely disappear following your laser treatment sessions. Laser treatments are outpatient operations that board-certified medical professionals should only carry out. As the laser beam passes over the treated region, you may experience mild discomfort which can be reduced by the help of numbing creams prior to the treatment.

Conclusion

Stretch marks, in short, do not have a “cure” but they can definitely be made less visible with the help of lasers. Do make sure to get proper consultation with your dermatologist before starting the treatment.

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