Halo Hybrid Fractional Laser Toronto
Combining Ablative and Non-Ablative Technology
Restoring and maintaining the beauty and radiance of your skin is key to aging confidently. The Halo Hybrid Fractional Laser combines ablative and non-ablative fractional laser energies to improve pigmentation, reduce pore size, stimulate collagen and prevent and improve fine lines and wrinkles. Halo delivers the results you want with less recovery time.
What is the Halo Fractional Laser?
Early resurfacing lasers removed a thin layer of the entire surface (or full-field) of the skin. These early full-field resurfacing treatments required several weeks of healing time. In comparison, fractional lasers treat microscopic columns of the skin, leaving the surrounding skin intact. This results in dramatically reduced healing times and increased safety.
Prior to the Halo Hybrid Fractional Laser, patients had to choose between ablative or nonablative fractional resurfacing. Ablative fractional resurfacing, which vaporizes the tissue, produces great results but requires more recovery time. Nonablative fractional resurfacing heats the skin. While nonablative resurfacing is associated with less recovery time, more treatments are required to achieve the same results as an ablative laser treatment.
The Halo Hybrid Fractional Laser simultaneously delivers non-ablative and ablative wavelengths to each treatment zone to maximize results and reduce downtime. Halo delivers therapeutic non-ablative energy deep within the skin to stimulate collagen, as well as ablative energy more superficially to address pigmentation and skin texture.
Compass Dermatology's Customization Approach
During your consultation, your skin quality, concerns, age, lifestyle, and downtime tolerance are assessed. We'll never recommend a one-size-fits-all treatment since every patient is unique. This personalized approach ensures optimal results aligned with your expectations and lifestyle constraints.
Hybrid Technology
Combines ablative and non-ablative lasers to remove surface damage while stimulating deeper collagen production.
Customizable Depth
Adjustable settings target specific skin layers, treating pigmentation, wrinkles, and texture issues tailored to your needs.
Minimal Downtime
Delivers noticeable rejuvenation with shorter downtime, unlike traditional lasers.
Who is a Candidate for Halo Hybrid Fractional Laser?
The Halo Laser is a great way to target the following complexion imperfections:
- Fine lines and wrinkles
- Pigmentation
- Dullness
- Rough texture
- Sun damage
- Acne scars
- Enlarged pores
Halo can give you the results you want in just 1-2 sessions. Compare that with other technologies which require 5-6 treatments to achieve similar results!
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Our Comprehensive Approach to Halo Hybrid Fractional Laser
You are unique, and your Halo treatment will be tailored to your unique skin type, concerns and goals. That's why it's crucial that you meet with one of our board-certified dermatologists for a thorough skin assessment and discussion of your goals. Our expertise allows us to formulate a treatment plan that will address your specific needs.
Halo Hybrid Fractional Laser is tuneable to allow its use on any skin type. Topical anesthetic is applied prior to your treatment. Once your skin is numb, the Hybrid Fractional Laser handpiece is passed over the treatment area. Most patients find that they experience a mild prickly sensation during the treatment.
Once your treatment is complete, aftercare products are applied to protect your skin and promote healing. Most patients are able to resume their normal daily activities the day after their Hybrid Fractional Laser treatment. Depending on the depth of your treatment, makeup may be applied two to three days later.
You will see improved pigmentation and texture of your skin within 5 days following your treatment, while dermal collagen regeneration continues for months. Halo Hybrid Fractional Laser results are long-lasting and can be maintained and further enhanced with subsequent Halo treatments combined with BroadBand Light (BBL).
The Science Behind Halo: Technical Innovation in Hybrid Fractional Technology
Discover Halo's cutting-edge technology and see for yourself why it delivers stunning, superior results with far less downtime than outdated fractional treatments.
Dual-Wavelength Synergy: 2940nm and 1470nm
The Halo Fraxel Laser employs two distinct laser wavelengths delivered simultaneously to each treatment zone. The 2940nm Er:YAG (erbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet) wavelength operates ablatively, vaporizing microscopic columns of tissue in the epidermis and upper dermis. This ablative component addresses surface concerns (pigmentation, rough texture, enlarged pores, and fine lines) by removing damaged skin and triggering rapid cellular turnover.
The 1470nm diode wavelength operates non-ablatively, delivering controlled thermal energy to the deeper dermis without vaporizing tissue. This creates zones of coagulation that stimulate the fibroblasts, which are the cells responsible for collagen and elastin production. The non-ablative component provides the foundational rejuvenation occurring beneath the surface, improving skin quality, texture, and elasticity over months.
Tunable Treatment Depth and Density
What truly revolutionizes Halo is its unmatched tunability, combined with one of our talented aesthetician's expertise to adjust it perfectly for your skin. They can independently fine-tune the depth and density of both wavelengths, tailoring the treatment exactly to your unique skin type, concerns, and downtime preferences for flawless, personalized results.
The ablative depth can range from 0-100 microns, while the non-ablative coagulation depth extends 200-1000 microns into the dermis. Treatment density (coverage percentage) adjusts from 10-100%, allowing everything from gentle "glow" treatments requiring one day of redness to aggressive resurfacing addressing severe sun damage.
This customization means that on the same device, a 25-year-old patient seeking mild texture improvement receives dramatically different settings than a 60-year-old addressing decades of sun damage.
Precision Thermal Tracking
Halo incorporates Dynamic Thermal Optimization™ technology, real-time thermal monitoring that tracks skin temperature during treatment. This intelligent system adjusts energy delivery based on your skin's response, ensuring consistent, safe treatment across the face, neck and chest regardless of variations in thickness, vascularity, or hydration.
Smart Coagulation Zone Architecture
The non-ablative component creates what scientists call "microscopic treatment zones" (MTZs) or columns of thermal injury surrounded by untreated skin. These undamaged "bridges" contain viable cells that rapidly migrate into treated zones, accelerating healing dramatically compared to full-field lasers that damage entire surfaces.
Halo's MTZ architecture creates approximately 400-1,000 treatment zones per square centimetre, dense enough for significant results, spaced sufficiently for rapid healing. The surrounding untreated tissue provides growth factors, cytokines, and healthy cells that expedite the wound-healing cascade.
Coagulation Without Ablation: The Deep Dermal Advantage
The non-ablative 1470nm wavelength creates controlled thermal injury without breaking the skin. This heats dermal collagen to approximately 65-70°C, which is the temperature at which collagen fibres denature, contract, and trigger neocollagenesis (new collagen production). This process continues for 3-6 months post-treatment, progressively improving skin thickness, elasticity, and overall quality.
How HALO Addresses Specific Skin Concerns
At Compass Dermatology, we leverage Halo's technical sophistication to deliver results previously requiring multiple separate treatments, combining the instant gratification of ablative resurfacing with the long-term benefits of non-ablative collagen stimulation in a single session.
Pigmentation and Sun Damage: Years of UV exposure create irregular melanin deposits, some in the epidermis (the outer layer) and others in the upper dermis (the deeper layer). The ablative Er:YAG wavelength vaporizes epidermal melanin, literally removing pigmented cells. Simultaneously, the non-ablative wavelength disrupts dermal melanin through controlled thermal injury, fragmenting pigment so your immune system can clear it.
HALO also targets melanocytes (the cells that produce melanin), reducing their activity and preventing new pigmentation. The wound-healing response triggered by both wavelengths promotes migration of healthy, unpigmented cells from surrounding tissue, creating a more uniform skin tone.
Fine Lines and Wrinkles: Wrinkles form through two primary mechanisms: surface changes (rough texture, loss of skin thickness) and deeper changes (collagen degradation, reduced elasticity). HALO attacks both simultaneously.The ablative component removes the damaged epidermis, triggering aggressive cellular turnover. This process visibly reduces fine lines within days. The non-ablative component works deeper, triggering fibroblasts to create new collagen, elastin, and glycosaminoglycans, which help keep our skin strong and elastic.
In the months that follow, the skin creates new collagen, which makes the dermis thicker. This helps to fill out the skin from the inside and makes wrinkles look less prominent.
Texture Irregularities: HALO's ablative component removes the disorganized surface layer entirely, while the thermal injury below triggers organized cellular regeneration. The result: smoother, more refined texture.
Enlarged Pores: Pore size is partially genetic but worsens with age, sun damage, and loss of collagen support around follicle openings. HALO cannot change genetics, but it can minimize pore appearance through multiple mechanisms:The ablative resurfacing tightens skin around pores, reducing their diameter. The deep dermal collagen stimulation strengthens support structures surrounding follicles, preventing them from dilating.
Our patients consistently note pore improvement as one of their favourite HALO benefits!
Acne Scarring: The ablative component of HALO removes scar edges, reducing the visual contrast between scarred and normal skin, while aggressive collagen production gradually smoothes the scar to normal skin level.
In some cases, HALO may be combined with other treatments to achieve optimal results. For example, dermal fillers may help further fill out depressed scars.
Halo Hybrid Fractional Laser FAQ
What is the Halo Hybrid Fractional Laser treatment?
Halo Hybrid Fractional Laser combines ablative and non-ablative fractional laser energies to improve pigmentation, reduce pore size, stimulate collagen and prevent and improve fine lines and wrinkles.
Does Halo Hybrid Fractional Laser improve fine lines?
How long do the results of a Halo Hybrid Fractional Laser treatment last?
Is a Halo treatment painful?
A topical numbing cream is applied prior to your treatment to improve your comfort. A prickly sensation may be felt during your treatment, but most patients find it to be quite tolerable.
How soon after a Halo treatment can I wear makeup?
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