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Professional, Affordable & Innovative Body Sculpting, Laser Tattoo Removal And Skin Services.

Serving Boulder, Longmont, Tri Cities, Fort Collins, Loveland and Northern Colorado

21/12/2021

We are constantly looking for new equipment to provide safer, quicker and better treatments for our clients. It’s not easy! For every potentially good piece of equipment there are dozens that are not. In addition, lasers are expensive so the price performance curve has to be pretty impressive.

We had a client in for tattoo removal recently and she has a fairly significant case of facial melasma. This is a darkening of the skin and is typically induced by pregnancy or other hormonal stresses. It is difficult to treat effectively. I researched melasma light treatment and virtually every tool I had available would only make it worse. I continued to look for effective treatment tools and finally found the AdvanTX laser platform. It’s an amazing piece of equipment and the more I learned about it the better it seemed to fit with our practice goals. What does it do? Literally everything in aesthetic skin treatments:

Port wine stains
Telangectasia – face/legs
Rosacea
Hemangioma
Venous lake
Angiomas
Scars Striae
Warts Wrinkles –
Periocular/Periorbital
Reduction of acne scars
Mild/Moderate Inflammatory Acne
Mild and moderate inflammatory acne vulgaris
Psoriasis
Reduction in the appearance of pores
Melasma

That’s a pretty impressive breadth of treatments for a single laser! Best of all there is virtually no post treatment downtime or symptoms. So we bought one! Here’s a few before and after pics to show what a remarkable instrument this is.

24/06/2021

Colorado Laser Treatments acquired a carbon dioxide laser three years ago. Our primary reason to get this laser was to repair other people’s mistakes. I’ve harped about the proper usage of power on these posts for literally years. A dirty little secret in this industry is that most technicians use WAY too much power when they remove tattoos and end up scarring their clients. Our CO2 laser is the perfect tool for scar reductions. As it turns out, it’s also the gold standard for aesthetic facials. It significantly reduces fine line wrinkles and skin color irregularities. Our clients love it. We’re running a summer and fall special! A full facial treatment is now only $450. Normally our cost is $600. That’s quite the bargain!

16/01/2021

It’s interesting to learn how a tattoo is actually visible in your skin. If you stop to think a moment it seems a tattoo should disappear as the top layer of your skin exfoliates- which it is doing all the time. That is clearly not the case as tattoos can literally last your entire life. So what biological mechanisms not only make a tattoo visible under your skin, but make them so hard to remove?

It helps a little if we have rudimentary understanding of the skin layers. See below.

The top layer of your skin is the epidermis. It’s basically a thin protective covering and it is constantly being replaced (exfoliated) by your body. Just under the epidermis and above the papillary dermis is the basal layer. This layer contains the melanocytes that are responsible for your skin color. Below the basal layer are two layers of dermis and that’s where tattoos are held.

So how does this work? When you get a tattoo ink is injected into your skin with a stylus at a high rate of speed- between 50-3000 times per second. The needle from the stylus passes into your epidermis into both layers of dermis and leaves ink into all areas. Every time the stylus cycles the needle it wounds the skin layers. That’s key. When the skin is damaged an inflammatory process begins- your body’s protective method. Cells of the immune system travel to the wound area to repair the damage. Specialized cells called macrophages and lymphophages attack the invading material- in this case ink-and literally become saturated with it. The structure of these antibodies can roughly be described as an inverted mushroom without a stem and some tentacles to attach to the invading material. The macrophages and lymphophages attempt to travel through your blood stream to the lymphatic system to filter out the ink, but many of them simply remain in the dermis and, viola! you have a tattoo that is visible through your skin.

So as potentially dull as all this is, why is it important? In order to remove a tattoo, our lasers must literally break the ink into pieces small enough that they are free from the macrophages that have absorbed them. At that point your body deploys additional antibodies to absorb the shattered ink. The story becomes familiar here: the macrophages in your bloodstream carry the ink to your lymphatic system which filters out the ink and passes it on to your endocrine system. Eventually is passes to your bladder and exits your body via urine.

04/12/2020

The majority of our treatments are to remove mementos: rings, names, dates. They all meant something at some time to the person wearing them. At some point that changed and they become an unfriendly reminder. There’s where we come in!

Rings are by far the most common memento. They can be a real bear to remove. The first issue is location. They are on an extremity that is far from any lymph node-the absorption mechanism. The second issue is blood flow. The top of the fingers have very little blood flow so there’s fewer white blood cells to move the ink to the lymphatic system. Because of this rings typically require more treatments than most other tattoos. It is not unusual to have 12 or more treatments in the removal of a ring.

What does this mean to the client wanting to get a ring removed? Well, rings generally meet our minimum cost structure of $50 per treatment. (Remember we perform every 4th treatment at no cost.) That’s the good news. The bad news is the number of treatments involved. If you need 15 sessions for complete removal you’ll be spending a fair amount of money. That didn’t seem right to us so we developed a policy specifically for rings: the most you’ll ever pay is for 7 treatments. That’s a maximum of $350. If your ring persists past that point it’s on us! Our reasoning is this: ring treatments take very little time and very few laser pulses per treatment. You’re not going to break our equipment, so let’s make the end goal as affordable as possible.

04/09/2020

Colorado Laser Treatments is ALWAYS looking for improvements in the science of tattoo removal. We set a pretty high bar as to what we consider legitimate and effective. If there isn’t a lot of scientifically gathered data to back up whatever result is claimed by either the equipment supplier or the treatment provider we move on. An example that comes to mind is the usage of picosecond pulsed lasers. The manufacturers claim faster results with fewer treatments. Of course this got our attention. When we did some research the results weren’t exactly what the companies producing these products said. There was a slight decrease in the number of overall treatments required- about 10%-15%. The ink reductions were slightly more uniform than the quick pulsed lasers which we use. All good from our perspective of supplying the fewest number of treatments required to remove our clients’ ink. What struck us most was the increase in cost. Many of the picosecond lasers cost close to $250,000. If we bought them our treatment costs would increase significantly. That didn’t seem best for our clients, particularly in regards to how we price our treatments, so we decided not to pursue that technology.

We have been following a different treatment science closely. It’s referred to as rapid acoustical pules (RAP of course!). Instead of using laser light to shatter the ink into small particles it uses very high energy acoustic pulses to accomplish the same thing. While we are still gathering data on this method, early studies have demonstrated multiple coverage passes in a single treatment and a significant decrease in the number of treatments required for complete removal. It is also used in conjunction with standard laser techniques and reported to be a much more comfortable treatment. We’re pretty excited about it. It does seem to be a very effective method with few disadvantages to the patient. The equipment is not yet released for sale or lease to clinics, but we are positioning Colorado Laser Treatments to be on the forefront for early trials and treatments. Stay tuned!

14/07/2020

What does tattoo removal and real estate have in common? The three rules for real estate: Location. Location. Location. The same is greatly true in laser tattoo removal. The location of the ink is the single most important aspect for speedy deletion.

Let’s quickly review the absorption process. When your tattoo is exposed to laser light of the appropriate wave length the ink shatters into small particles. The particles are absorbed by the white cells in your blood stream. The blood moves the ink to your lymphatic system and filters it out. Eventually the ink is passed from your lymph nodes to the endocrine system and it is excreted.

Where are the vast majority of your lymph nodes? The upper body, particularly around your neck. There are virtually no lymph nodes below your knees and elbows. That’s why ring tattoos and anything on your lower leg or foot take so long to remove. I half jokingly tell clients that if they get a tattoo that they may ever want to have removed, get it on your neck (prime location for lymph nodes), get it in red (red ink moves the fastest) and get it in prison (there is no professional tattoo equipment in prisons)!

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1361 Francis Street Ste 201A
CO
80501

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Tuesday	09:00 - 19:00
Wednesday	09:00 - 18:00
Thursday	09:00 - 18:00
Friday	09:00 - 18:00
Saturday	09:00 - 18:00

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+17205522411

Website

http://www.colasers.com/

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