Erbium Glass Fiber Fractional 1550 laser - can someone please enlighten me regarding this type of laser?
Is it ablative or not? I have seen some videos and it does not seem to generate much smoke.
Thanks

MD Baten: The Erbium Glass lasers are NON ABLATIVE. The target chromophore for this wavelength is water, but when interacting with skin you are only able to reach COAGULATION temperatures -- not the evaporation threshold (100 degrees C.). There are MANY articles about this phenomenon -- and ABLATIVE wavelengths (2940 and 10,600) available on the Internet if you use the GOOGLE search engine or similar search tools.

Thanks very much for the info.
Although I am a doctor, I have very limited experience on these systems, and I am here to learn, since information that you can find through search engines are often biased and confusing.
I am from eastern europe and in the market for some devices - we already have an IPL, two endermo machines etc, and would like to go beyond with a non-ablative laser, and an RF machine.
But the american ones are so expensive, it's simply not possible to buy one for our market, it doesnt pay off. So I am looking for a korean or chinese fractional erbium glass laser, and I really dont want it to be ablative.

So please, if you can endure on more question from me - even at higher intensities it's not ablative? As I have seen the specifications on some machines, they seem to be quite powerfull, on par with CO2.

MD Baten: Send me an e-mail - or provide your e-address - and I will send you some helpful information about resurfacing lasers, wavelengths, and technologies.

Thanks very much for your help. My email is gutastef at surgex dot ro.

Thanks very much for your help. My email is gutastef at surgex dot ro.