Word: sun
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...into the mailroom, and kids are getting credit cards from everyone under the sun," says Matthew J. DeGreeff '89, a Greenough proctor and also a financial aid officer. "It's obscene...
...weeks later, the pain forgiven, my cheek peachy and clear, I'm back for more. This time Lancer zaps an ugly brown spot on my left cheek--the result of driving with the California sun constantly bombarding my face. (Seems my chic metal sunglasses had been channeling the sun onto one spot.) This time he uses a different, less powerful laser. Surprise--there's barely any pain! Within days there is also no sign of the stupid blotch that had been bothering me for years. I'm getting to like these lasers...
...aesthetic laser procedures will be performed next year, up from an estimated 1 million in 1996. And baby boomers brought up to admire the Bain de Soleil tan will doubtless be turning even more to lasers, as the years go on, to try to reverse the damaging effects of sun. "What we're facing in American health is the problem of longevity, women living into their 90s, men to their 80s," says cosmetic-dermatologic surgeon Dr. Edward Lack, a board member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery. Most of the 45-to-70-year-old laser-surgery patients Lack...
Carbon dioxide, or CO2, lasers have been widely used since 1994 to bloodlessly eradicate wrinkles and sun damage by vaporizing the upper layer of skin, thus stimulating the underlying collagen fibers to rejuvenate the skin. Some 170,000 people had laser resurfacing done last year, making it by far the most popular laser procedure. Though chemical peels do essentially the same thing--and cost less than the average $2,500 to $3,000 for laser resurfacing--lasers have the advantage of being more controllable, since chemicals are absorbed at different rates by different skin...
...first argon lasers back in the 1970s, says cosmetic-laser pioneer Dr. Richard Fitzpatrick, "we had one laser for everything. Now I have 25 lasers." Soon, he predicts, lasers will reach beneath the skin without causing any surface wound at all, to rejuvenate the skin's structure and reverse sun damage. In five years we may even have home lasers for facials. Fitzpatrick's partner, cosmetic-laser surgeon Mitch Goldman, predicts that in 10 years, you'll be able to wheel yourself into a huge machine like that for an MRI and come out with new skin. "It will take...