Patent ID: 7703458

Claim:
A method of improving the appearance of the skin with pulses of laser light generated by a Nd:YAG laser, said light being delivered from a handpiece, said method comprising the steps of: generating a series of narrowband laser pulses having a wavelength of 1.06 nm, said laser pulses having a pulse width of between 100 microseconds to one millisecond; spacing the handpiece from the surface of the skin; and moving the handpiece back and forth over the skin in order to deliver at least 400 pulses of laser light in the area to be treated, and with the spot size of the pulses on the tissue being between 3 mm and 10 mm and with each pulse delivering at least 10 kilowatts of power, the application of said laser pulses resulting in an improvement in the appearance of the skin without ablating the skin.