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Michelle Biederman has dropped by for a pop before work. "We may as well do the acne scars too," says Dr. Robert Weiss, as he positions the firing end of his Cool Touch laser in a bed of fine lines just below her right eye. Pop! goes the laser, emitting a pulse of invisible light and a white puff of subzero cooling spray. Biederman feels something like the snap of a rubber band. After Weiss blasts the wrinkles under the right eye, he does the left. By the time he gets to the acne scars on her chin, her right...
That's what Dr. Weiss is after. The idea is to heat up the underlying dermis, stimulating fibroblast cells to produce collagen, which pushes out fine wrinkles and scars. "This temperature sensor is monitoring things," says Weiss, 49, as he points to a fail-safe device on the laser. "If the temperature rises too high in the skin, it won't let you do another pulse...
...deep wrinkles. But they typically eliminate about half the fine wrinkles that make many boomer men and women look older than they feel. Both Cool Touch and IPL require three to five monthly treatments, at $250 to $550 apiece. For Biederman, who was originally treated by Weiss three years ago, this is a maintenance visit that she makes once or twice a year to keep her fibroblasts producing collagen. She has also had IPL treatments to get rid of spider veins and age spots, but she has never considered a full surgical face-lift. "That's overkill," she says...
...Weiss is booked three months in advance--and a quarter of his patients are men. Baltimore financial manager Adam Fein, 44, was not looking for cosmetic surgery when he wandered in with a wart on his foot. But six treatments later, his acne scars and spider veins are 90% gone. "Hey, if it's there and it works," says Fein, "why not take advantage...
...We’re peaking at the right time,” Weiss said. “We gear our whole program to placing people in the NCAAs...