Exhibit 3(i)

AMENDED AND RESTATED    CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION    OF    CANDELA CORPORATION

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I,
Gerard E. Puorro, President and Chief Executive Officer of Candela Corporation, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware, originally incorporated pursuant to the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware on August 22, 1984, do hereby certify that the Certificate of Incorporation of Candela
Corporation, as amended, has been further amended, and restated as amended, in accordance with the provisions of Sections 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. The
Certificate of Incorporation of Candela Corporation is amended and restated as follows:

1.      The
name of the corporation is Candela Corporation.

2.      The
address of its registered office in the State of Delaware is 1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle. The name of its registered agent at
such address is The Corporation Trust Company.

3.      The
nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or promoted is:
To engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

4.      The
total number of shares of common stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is 60,000,000 and the par value of each such share is one cent ($.01). No
holder of any share of the Corporation shall have preemptive rights.

5.      The
corporation is to have perpetual existence.

6.      In
furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by statute, the board of directors is expressly authorized:



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7.      Whenever
a compromise or arrangement is proposed between this corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between this corporation and its stockholders or
any class of them, any court of equitable jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary way of this corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof, or on the
application of any receiver or receivers appointed for this corporation under the provisions of Section 291 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code or on the application of trustees in dissolution or
of any receiver or receivers appointed for this corporation under the provisions of Section 279 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code, order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or
of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in such manner as the said court directs. If a majority in number representing three-fourths in
value of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this corporation, as the case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement to any reorganization
of this corporation as consequences of such compromise or arrangement, the said compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by the court to which the said application
has been made, be binding on all the creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all the stockholders or class of stockholders of this corporation, as the case may be, and also on this corporation.

8.      Meetings
of the stockholders may be held within or without the State of Delaware, as the bylaws may provide. The books of the corporation may be kept (subject to any
provision contained in the statutes) outside the State of Delaware at such place or places as may be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors or in the bylaws of the corporation.
Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless the bylaws of the corporation shall so provide.

9.      The
corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change, or repeal any provision contained in this certificate of incorporation, in the manner now or hereafter
prescribed by statute, and all rights conferred upon stockholders herein are granted subject to this reservation.

10.    The
personal liability of the directors of the Corporation is hereby eliminated to the fullest extent permitted by paragraph (7) of subsection (b) of
Section 102 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware as the same may be amended and supplemented.

IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation has been executed by a duly authorized offer of Candela Corporation this 8th day of May, 2008.

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