This stimulates new collagen, or neo-collagenases, to improve skin quality and major tightening. This process helps improve general skin quality, wrinkles, skin texture, and can also improve acne scarring.

The heated pyramid-shaped spikes on the tip create micro-channels or craters in the skin through evaporation of skin. The treatment is fractional, that is, a matrix of channels is created with healthy untreated skin in between. This helps reduce healing times and complications in comparison to treating all the skin at once.

What is the difference between Clear and Brilliant, Fraxel, fractional CO2, and Tixel?
Although fractional CO2 and Tixel have a similar effect on the skin, there are some key differences between the two treatments. In the same vein that the fractional CO2 laser was a “game-changer” in resurfacing treatments, Tixel technology has become the 21st Century game-changer.

Because Tixel is not a laser device, there is no need to use protective eyewear. It is possible to treat around the eyes, even very close to the eyelashes, without causing injury to the eyes. CO2 lasers do require corneal shields (metal shields that go under the eyelids) should treatment be performed within the bony orbit around the eye.

CO2 lasers also do leave a layer of char or debris on the skin whereas Tixel does not do this. Treatments that were reported as far less painful with significantly less downtime than current laser fractional resurfacing treatments, yet able to deliver equally satisfactory results, with very high levels of patient satisfaction.

Tixel is also unique in that the energy can be turned up or down depending on how much downtime you can fit in and goals. With surprising consistency, patients reported “looking forward” to their next Tixel session, in sharp contradistinction to laser treatments where they were often ”dreading” the next treatment and “looked forward” only to the anticipated results. Ultimately a high level of treatment satisfaction.