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Gregory Nickolaidis with Westlake Dermatology said.Fraxel is like Photoshop for the skin.

For instance, you can erase lines in the skin.

With Fraxel, you're using a laser to target points in the skin."It creates tiny, tiny injuries in the skin, and we actually make about 10 passes with the Fraxel to the skin called microthermal zones and you can't see them with the naked eye," Nickolaidis said.Patients say it feels like a pin prick."Three to five days of redness and swelling so you can certainly go back to work the same day.

It took six years to find a solution, but I did," Fraxel patient Kristen Cruz said.Kristen Cruz travels from Corpus Christi to Austin just to get that solution."I'm not a vain person at all," Cruz said.It was while she was pregnant with her son six years ago that the stretch marks happened."I didn't feel like myself anymore and after having no stretch marks to having lots of stretch marks pretty much everywhere on my abdomen, it was a big change," Cruz said.Four Fraxel treatments cost about $1,200.

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