Autumn 2009 has seen the successful launch of Fotona’s latest Erbium:YAG-based laser system, XS Dynamis, in Europe, the Americas and Asia. Initial market response indicates that the XS Dynamis represents highly innovative laser workstation that fulfils practitioners’ needs by providing a complete solution for ablative, as well as non-ablative, skin resurfacing and rejuvenation treatments.
The XS Dynamis' principle treatment modalities range from superficial, light to deep laser peels, from non-ablative, coagulative to fully ablative rejuvenation and from full-filed to fractional resurfacing. Computer-controlled S-Runner and F-Runner Er:YAG scanner in conjunction with novel Turbo and V-Smooth modes, supported by proprietary VSP Technology, have set the XS Dynamis in a class apart in a wide selection of skin resurfacing workstation available today. Practitioners have remarked that it's not only down to its highest performance characteristics, which allows them to perform skin treatments faster, more efficiently and effectively, that make the XS Dynamis such an interesting system. Many are impressed by the depths that can be reached in skin ablation and coagulation, while the system allows for complete control over these depths and the ablation and coagulation ratio. The XS Dynamis finally enables practitioners to adopt a true "less is more" strategy in treatments and overcomes many of the limitations that were previously inherent to light-based skin treatments.
Full control over the Er:YAG laser’s clinical effects and ultimately laser treatment outcome is the XS Dynamis’ strong point. It offers this by allowing the numerous treatment parameters and modalities to be precisely adjusted and optimized by the practitioner to satisfy therapeutic needs and requirements. This is a benefit common to all Fotona’s high performance laser systems.
The XS Dynamis’ software predicts skin ablation and coagulation depths, based on the selected treatment parameters; a convenience feature and benefit for all XS Dynamis owners.
This information will assist practitioners to finetune procedures and to explore and expand treatment options as new clinical data arises.
The system also incorporates factory pre-set treatment parameters that can be accessed, changed and stored through a simple user interface. This offers convenience, especially when wanting to perform everyday procedures and optimal and safe treatment parameters need to be accessed quickly. The same feature will assist novice laser practitioners to shorten the learning curve and get the most out of the XS Dynamis’ capabilities, even in the earliest stages of everyday use.
Pre-set Treatment Parameters
XS Dynamis pre-sets eliminate the need to think strictly in terms of laser treatment parameters. Similarly, ablation and coagulation depths are not required to be estimated, known or selected to micron-level precision to achieve a particular clinical outcome. The XS Dynamis simply requires the practitioner to select one of the clinicallyproven pre-sets (e.g. Medium Peel) and the system will automatically provide the most optimal treatment parameters and estimate treatment depth.
Why Erbium:YAG Laser?
At the heart of the XS Dynamis workstation lies a high performance Erbium:YAG laser; chosen for its inherent high ablation efficiency in skin.
Er:YAG laser is very well absorbed in water; the principle target chromophore in skin resurfacing. This gives it the ability to vaporize skin tissue with very little thermalconduction. In contrast, CO2 lasers are less ablation efficient due to their lower absorption in water. They therefore unavoidably conduct significant amounts of heat into the tissue. Coagulation will always accompany ablation when using CO2 lasers. This often entails suboptimal treatment outcomes and an increased risk of undesired effects such as hypopigmentation, persistent erythema and prolonged recovery times.
In addition to the Er:YAG laser’s ideal absorption characteristics for skin resurfacing, Fotona’s VSP Technology allows the ratio between Er:YAG ablation and coagulation to be varied very accurately from “cold” ablation to non-ablative coagulation. As a result Fotona’s
Er:YAG laser can be fully optimized to precisely attain the desired clinical outcome.