LightPod® Era™
Profound Facial Rejuvenation with Less Pain and Healing Time

LightPod Era aesthetic laser delivers profound results in facial skin rejuvenation, involving a single treatment with minimum pain and healing time or through a series of superficial laser peels.

This versatile resurfacing tool allows for efficient removal of wrinkles, age and sun spots, acne scars and cutaneous lesions, erasing years of aging and restoring a youthful appearance to the skin.

LightPod Era combines proprietary MicroPulse-2940™ technology with the inherent benefits of the erbium laser wavelength resulting in minimal downtime combined with efficient tissue ablation. This unique combination makes LightPod Era ideal for treating large pores, spots, wrinkles, scars and cutaneous lesions. Age spots, sun damage, solar lentigos and pigmented lesions are all quite prevalent in the mature patient segment. At the same time, these conditions are very effectively treated by LightPod Era.

The gentle effect of erbium’s 2940 wavelength delivered in short duration pulses allows gentle yet effective treatment of crow’s feet, periorbital wrinkles, smoker’s lines and other perioral wrinkles.

Many indications benefit from a “one-two” effect of using Nd: YAG (LightPod Neo) first to remodel collagen and tighten the underlying dermal tissue, followed by erbium resurfacing.

Finally, LightPod Era is the perfect treatment choice for a wide range of classically medical applications such as acne scars, revision of surgical scars, wart removal, milia, nevi, actinic keratoses, seborrheic keratoses, syringomas, carcinomas and other cutaneous lesions.

Applications

Laser peels
The outer layer of the epidermis is removed in a brief, easy procedure with complete skin regrowth in a day or two. The treatment can be repeated 2-3 times to remove sun damage and fine lines.

 

 

Gentle skin resurfacing
Several layers of the epidermis are removed in a gentle procedure with the use of topical anesthesia or local injection. Pain and healing time are minimized yet the results are profound in just one treatment.

 

Resurfacing in conjunction with blepharoplasty
Gentle skin resurfacing (see above) can be combined with blepharoplasty to achieve total periorbital rejuvenation, with a more complete cosmetic enhancement as compared to blepharoplasty alone.

 

Acne scar reduction
Shallow and deep pitted acne scars can be removed or reduced with spot treatment by the laser, combined with gentle resurfacing of the surrounding skin tissue.

 

Scar minimization
The LightPod Era can be applied to fresh (just sutured) surgical incisions to smooth the skin surfaces along the incision and stimulate new collagen growth in the underlying tissue, resulting in less visible scar formation afterwards.

 

 

Cutaneous lesion removal
A wide variety of cutaneous lesions can be removed with spot treatment by the laser, which may be combined with gentle resurfacing of the surrounding skin tissue.

 

How Does LightPod Era Reduce Treatment Pain and Healing Time?

Skin resurfacing with LightPod Era lasers is an easy and comfortable procedure for both patient and physician. This laser is uniquely designed to deliver laser energy to the tissue in such a way that allows the skin to cool between pulses – resulting in high efficacy treatment with industry-leading minimization of treatment pain and healing time. In most cases LightPod Era treatments require only a topical anesthetic. This is in contrast to bulky, expensive lasers that employ scanners, causing high-speed pulse-stacking that tends to cause non-uniform ablation and overheating due to excessive speed, resulting in substantially more treatment pain a higher potential for uneven erythema as well as a greater risk of scarring.

The laser can be used on a full face or on a small area for resurfacing without producing a demarcation line. This allows for efficient combinations of laser resurfacing with other cosmetic procedures such as blepharoplasty, rhinoplasty and others, as well as with Botox treatments and the use of fillers. As a case in point, 100-micron ablation in the periorbital area with LightPod Era typically takes less than 15 minutes and results in removal or dramatic reduction in wrinkles, sun & age spots, acne scars and/or cutaneous lesions. For those patients who are not satisfied with the gradual improvements of repetitive non-ablative facial rejuvenation, skin resurfacing with LightPod Era is the ideal solution.

From a scientific standpoint, LightPod Era Erbium skin resurfacing is the most efficient and modern technology for treatment of sun damaged skin as well as superficial and moderately deep wrinkles on the face, neck, chest and hands. Light energy at the wavelength of 2940 nm is almost 100% absorbed by water (16 times more than with a CO2 laser), allowing physicians to use the laser irradiation to treat only the top superficial layer of skin without inflicting a thermal injury to the surrounding tissue. Patients with Fitzpatrick skin types I to III are ideal candidates for treatment with the Er:YAG laser. However, because of the minimal thermal damage created by the Er:YAG laser, patients with skin types IV and V may also be treated with a lower incidence of postinflammatory hyperpigmentation.

Profound results in as little as a single treatment session, coupled with minimal procedural discomfort and healing time compared to previous technologies, has made Erbium resurfacing one of the most popular facial rejuvenation procedures.

Clinical data, articles and white papers

Clinical Cases with LightPod Era

Three Modes of Facial Rejuvenation – LightPod Delivers More vs. Fractional Lasers

Laser Skin Resurfacing with a Novel Portable Erbium:YAG Laser - Journal of Cosmetic And Laser Therapy, Spring 2006

Combining Blepharoplasty and Skin Resurfacing with a Portable 300 µsec Er:YAG Laser – American Society of Ophthalmic and Plastic Reconstructive Surgery Annual Meeting, 2006

FriendlyLight Laser Achieves Effective Skin Resurfacing with Minimal Patient Discomfort– Aesthetic Buyer’s Guide, Winter 2005

Ablation of Cutaneous Lesions Using an Erbium:YAG Laser – American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery Annual Meeting, 2003

Laser Notebook Series:

• Bimodal Facial Restoration™: A Comprehensive Approach to Facial Skin Rejuvenation
• Blepharoplasty Combined with LightPod® Era™: Improved Patient Outcomes & Practice Revenues
• Laser Skin Resurfacing with LightPod Era

Aerolase customer testimonials

"Patients are pleased that only one treatment session is necessary for profound results. I find the laser to be easy to use with a wide margin of safety. The laser’s unique collimated beam provides the convenience to work in close proximity to the eyes."
James Gordon, MD

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"The most unique aspects of this laser are its portability and effectiveness. I find the limited thermal damage to produce less erythema. Patient acceptance has been enthusiastic. And it is easy to move the laser between my two office locations."
James Newman, MD

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"I have used the LightPod Era laser in my clinics for about four years. I find it effective and safe; my patients have been highly satisfied with the results. I believe the LightPod will generate great interest and enthusiasm among physicians dealing with cosmetic issues of skin and for those who want to start using lasers"
Khalil Khatri, MD

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"A promising novel technique employs combining the Neo and Era to perform the Aerolase BFR treatment. This treatment can simultaneously stimulate deep collagen remodeling while dramatically improving the appearance of the surface tissue. Furthermore, owning both LightPod lasers enables me to offer a full range of aesthetic laser services to include common treatments such as hair removal & PFB reduction, scar revision for redness reduction, vascular and pigmented lesion removal, and ablation of cutaneous lesions."
Edmund Liu, MD

Aerolase product specifications

LightPod® Era™
Wavelength:	2,940 nm
Operation Mode:	pulsed
Energy per Pulse:	up to 1,400 mJoules
Energy Fluence:	5 Joules/cm² on 6 mm spot 20 Joules/cm² on 3 mm spot
Pulse Width:	300 µsec
Mode of Laser Beam:	Collimated/Focused
Power:	110V/60 Hz (or 220V)
Internal Laser System Cooling:	air-cooled
Complete System Size:	14"x 19"x 6"
Weight:	22 lbs