Laser Skin Resurfacing, Acne Scar Laser, Laser for Wrinkles

Profound skin rejuvenation in a single treatment – with less downtime than any other modality.

The LightPod Era represents a new era in skin rejuvenation. The Era is a high precision 2940 nm laser that delivers high fluence in a unique collimated beam, employing a gentle 0.3 millisecond pulse duration. The laser uniquely allows for independent depth of ablation of shallow or deep indications within a treatment site, as well as precision targeting of difficult contours of the nose and periocular areas.

The LightPod Era literally vaporizes epidermal skin imperfections leaving the deeper layers of skin untouched. Treatments are quick, safe, and minimally invasive with low patient discomfort alleviated with a standard topical anesthetic.

LightPod Era allows patients to achieve profound rejuvenation on the widest range of skin conditions including eradication of wrinkles (periocular fine lines, crow’s feet, smoke wrinkles), scar resurfacing (acne scars, burn scars), sun damage, age spots and other cutaneous lesions, and pore reduction among other treatments.

The LightPod Era also allows for completely non-invasive subablative skin rejuvenation technique when optimum amounts of laser energy are absorbed within the skin without disrupting the epidermis. This results in evening out the skin and the overall improvement of its look and texture.

The LightPod Era offers a high return-on-investment for the practitioner due to its unique ability to deliver profound skin rejuvenation in one minimally invasive treatment, exceptional treatment versatility and the lack of costly consumables or maintenance. Patients are thrilled to see their skin rejuvenated in a single low discomfort treatment.

The LightPod Era is the product of extensive Aerolase clinical research and laser technology development. It delivers optimum laser energy parameters, which allow practitioners to achieve maximum therapeutic result but with minimum discomfort and downtime for the patient. Aerolase’s research team learned from and improved on the prior generation skin resurfacing technologies in a number of aspects. While LightPod Era allows successful deep levels of ablation, it does so without creating thermal damage or charring to the non-ablated tissue, which is typical for CO2 lasers. Also, Era allows ablation in a highly controlled manner removing from just a few microns up to twenty five microns per pulse without dermacation lines or thermal damage lines typical for prior generation erbium lasers. Eliminating above mentioned deficiencies result in multiple advantages including much less treatment discomfort, faster healing, less down time, and overall better results for healthier looking skin.

The Era is also a unique tool for the surgeon, as it allows for a technique called ‘surgical scar minimization.’ After suturing, the laser is used to ablate the tissue along the incision line, which creates uniform healing while stimulating new collagen due to the heat from the laser energy. This minimizes raised scar formation afterwards.

The LightPod Era features a very simplified and straightforward laser control interface. Treatment technique with Era is safe and easy. The operator can actually see and regulate the depth of ablation through application of multiple passes in a highly controlled manner. This increases the treatment safety margin and reduces the risk of accidental operator mistake.

Designed as the modern medical technology, LightPod Era is the only portable (about 22 pounds or 11kg) and maintenance-free full power Er:YAG laser system on the market. Thanks to patented air-cooled design LightPod technology has eliminated the primary maintenance and repair troublepoints of the traditional stationary lasers: the internal water circulating system, and the optical lightguide system. The LightPod Era, therefore, is inherently higher in reliability and far less likely to need repair.

Above described clinical and ergonomic advantages of the LightPod Era provides for the increased level of patient satisfaction and strongest revenue generating opportunity of any resurfacing laser as well as the lowest Total Cost of Ownership, thus maximizing the ROI (Return on Investment) for the practitioner. To learn more about the LightPod Era, contact Aerolase for more information or laser demonstration.

Read what our practitioners have to say about the LightPod Era and view a case of periorbital resurfacing:

Allen D. Rosen, MD, Premier Plastic Surgery – Facial Rejuvenation with LightPod Era

Laser Notebook – Gentle Resurfacing with LightPod Era

Testimonials

Lopa Gupta, MD, Park Avenue Facial Aesthetics, New York, NY

“Although the more common use of the LightPod Era is for laser skin resurfacing, I also use the laser daily for surgical scar minimization. I have two LightPod Era lasers and have performed over 10,000 treatments with them. My patients are highly satisfied.”
Khalil Khatri, MD, The Skin & Laser Surgery Center of New England , Chelmsford, MA

“I have used the LightPod Era laser in my clinics for over eight years in laser skin resurfacing and scar treatment applications. I find it effective and safe for the treatment of wrinkles, as well as for surgical scar minimization. Where I ablate the incision line post-suturing My patients have been highly satisfied with the results .”
Michael Gold, MD, Gold Skin Care Center, Nashville, TN

“The Era gives a physician the capability of an erbium laser for full-face resurfacing, yet the energy can be turned down to perform the laser peels which are becoming the standard in the industry. We can simply use topical anesthesia; we don’t need local blocks or sedation. This device should be in every dermatologist’s office.”
Allen D. Rosen, MD, The Plastic Surgery Group, Montclair, NJ

"I have had the LightPod Era from Aerolase for nearly 6 years, and have been very happy with the laser. I often use it in combination with facial surgeries and other cosmetic procedures and since it is so portable I use it in the office and the OR. Patients are very pleased with the results because downtime from a single treatment is minimal."