Banish Stretch Marks Now to Be Swimsuit Ready This Summer

When you look at your body, you realize that life has left a few reminders about the passage of time. From wrinkles and sun spots on your face that speak to aging and exposure to stretch marks on your body from previous weight and hormone fluctuations, your body is more like a roadmap to your life.

If you’d prefer to get back to a more blank canvas, especially when it comes to stretch marks, you’re not alone. Stretch marks affect up to 90% of people, and let’s just say that no one is exactly thrilled when they pop up on the surface of their skin.

The good news is that we now have a great solution for stretch marks — laser skin resurfacing. The team at Dutch Hollow Medical Day Spa takes great pride in thoroughly vetting our services to offer only the best of the best. Our laser resurfacing technology certainly qualifies, and it can help you banish stretch marks in time for swimsuit season and beyond.

Where stretch marks come from

As the name suggests, stretch marks occur when your skin is stretched too far, which leads to a form of scarring. When this happens, collagen and elastin fibers rupture and break apart. As a result, your body floods the area with more collagen to strengthen the skin.

When your body does this, it pays little heed to the cosmetic results — its mission is to make sure the skin barrier is intact.  So, with the flood of collagen, you can develop lines of scar tissue that appear across the surface of your skin. These lines can be raised or depressed, and they range in color from white to red to purple.

The reasons why people develop stretch marks often boil down to:

• Growth spurts during puberty
• Pregancy
• Weight loss and weight gain
• Rapid muscle development

And once stretch marks form, they generally don’t go away on their own.

Banishing stretch marks with laser skin resurfacing

Emerging laser technologies have certainly changed the landscape of skin care, enabling us to address a host of skin concerns, including stretch marks, like never before. It’s little wonder that these treatments continue to increase in popularity — there were more than 3.7 million skin resurfacing treatments performed in the United States in 2024 alone.

At our practice, we address stretch marks with our innovative 1540 fractional skin resurfacing system. With this cutting-edge technology, we deliver thousands of micro columns of heat into your skin. This energy passes harmlessly through the surface to reach the deeper layers, where the therapeutic heat tightens the skin and stimulates collagen remodeling.

This boost of collagen isn’t like the one that led to your stretch marks. Instead, it’s a less reactive response and a more purposeful one in which your body rebuilds skin from below — healthy skin without scar tissue.

Not only does our 1540 fractional skin resurfacing system work extremely well for stretch marks, but the technology also works on most skin types.

So, if you want to hit swimsuit season with more confidence and fewer stretch marks, we’ve got you covered. To set up your 1540 fractional skin resurfacing treatment, simply contact us at our med spa in Godfrey, Illinois, today to schedule an appointment.