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Many signs of cutaneous photodamage are amenable to treatment with a variety of ablative and non-ablative lasers, light sources, and fractional photothermolysis. Ablative laser skin resurfacing offers the most substantial clinical improvement, but is associated with several weeks of postoperative recovery.

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Wanitphakdeedecha, R., Alster, T.S. (2018). Lasers for Resurfacing. In: Nouri, K. (eds) Lasers in Dermatology and Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76118-3_9

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