It seems that with each passing year, another new and innovative approach to skin care and rejuvenation takes to the fore, offering to many an unheard of before procedure that is supposed to revive their skin and restore vitality, elasticity and suppleness.
However, at the same time, there are also the fair amounts of skin treatments that seem harmless at first, until something goes wrong.
Case and point: the newest popular fad and trend in skin care and age-defying is laser resurfacing skin treatments.
And with more medical spas and skin care doctors now offering this method of skin care treatment, the reports are pouring in as to the many different, known and adverse side effects that are being reported, some of them even fatal.
Why Laser Resurfacing Treatments Can be Dangerous Think about it: they take a very powerful laser and zap the upper layer (and sometimes a few upper layers) of your skin.
The theory behind the science of laser resurfacing skin treatments is that if you burn off or vaporize the upper layers of skin, the new skin will form underneath and will be naturally rich in collagen.
However, this requires quite a few visits to the laser center.
It does not always heal right, and sometimes can cause permanent scarring.
And the healing process is long and painful, and susceptible to infections.
Even recently the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) reported several fatalities with patients who were recovering from such treatments.
The fatalities were associated with the recovery process, where the patients were instructed to plastic-wrap their legs with a local numbing agent, which ultimately killed them.
How the Best Wrinkle Creams Compare The best wrinkles creams offer the same results, but are non-intrusive, have no side effects and have never been responsible for any fatalities.
The leading anti-wrinkle creams utilize all-natural and clinically proven ingredients that increase the production of collagen in the skin, penetrate the layers to reduce wrinkle depth by delivering key ingredients effectively, and are not painful to use.
Additionally, the best anti-wrinkle creams are far most cost effective than laser resurfacing treatments, and they can be purchased over the counter without a prescription.