Mary's Pixel Story

When beauty therapy trainer Mary Parker suddenly developed severe acne on her face in her early twenties it threatened to be a major career setback.

“I have to stand in front of a class teaching skin and beauty care and understandably people would have started wondering why I did not practice what I was preaching,” she said.

“It really knocked my confidence and I had to start wearing special make-up to cover up the spots on my face”

But after becoming one of the first patients in the country to be treated with a new generation of skin resurfacing lasers, Mary is now able to face her students with an almost blemish-free complexion.

“My friends now tell me that they have never seen my skin look so smooth. The result has been just fantastic,” said 25-year-old Mary from Cannock, Staffordshire.

“I sometimes used to feel really down when my acne was at its worst but now I feel really confident about myself again. I certainly no longer have to wear special make any more.

“Everyone has remarked just how much better my skin now looks and that includes many of my customers.”

Mary was in her early 20s when her face suddenly erupted in a mass of acne spots. “Maybe it was because I had been under some stress at the time and they got worse before they started to get better. As a beauty therapy trainer I realised that it was big problem.”

But luckily Mary was able to turn for help at the Court House Clinic in Stockport, Greater Manchester that had just become one of the first clinics in the UK to acquire the new “Harmony” Pixel Erbium skin resurfacing laser

Unlike its more radical predecessors, the new laser delivers tits beam in tiny dots through the pixel micro optic lens so penetrating the surface of the skin more gently and eradicating the acne scarring with long-lasting effect.

It is also used for skin rejuvenation and for the treatment of wrinkles, fine lines and pigmented lesions caused by sun damage and age.

“The old laser peeled off the skin but the new Pixel laser only treats about 30 per cent of the surface at any one time and is, therefore, much more gentle,” she said.

To eradicate her acne scarring, Mary had three treatment sessions each lasting around 20 minutes with a one-month interval between each treatment.

“I have always enjoyed keeping myself fit and in good shape with regular visits to the gym and I am now longer long embarrassed about my skin when I take a shower in the changing rooms.” she said.

Her treatment at Stockport was carried out by Dr Robin Stones, the Court House Clinic Northern Medical Director and specialist in laser aesthetics, who said: “Although the new laser is designed to eradicate the scarring, it also treats the condition at the same time.

“In Mary’s case, it was used on her face but it is also equally effective or other parts of the body. Because it works so gently it allows the new skin to grow through”.

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