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Maker · Lasers & Light · Ablative / hybrid fractional laser

Unverified mapping
Pathway
Class
First decision
Years on market
Studies1,485
Trials229

No FDA record matched this brand, so nothing regulatory is claimed here.

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Shares treatment areas — not a recommendation.

Overview

ModalityModalityA family of treatments that work the same way — such as radiofrequency microneedling, or lasers that leave the skin surface intact — rather than any one branded machine.
Ablative / hybrid fractional laser
Manufacturer
Category
Lasers & Light
Latest decision
FDA records
MappingCrosswalkThe mapping this site keeps between records that no single source links up, such as tying a brand name to the FDA codes and the study searches that describe the same thing.
Not verified

Mapping is the weakest link on this page; the rule is published.

Regulatory

Unverified mapping

No clearance number, approval number, device class, manufacturer or date is shown for this product. Nothing is guessed to fill the gap.

Indication: none shown, because no FDA record was matched to this brand name.

Evidence

Counted for the modality, never the brand.

1,485PubMed, all time
940PubMed, 10y
229Studies
13Recruiting
Ablative / hybrid fractional laser — PubMed records per year, 2016–2026 (2026 partial)
Ablative / hybrid fractional laser
2016100
201782
201880
2019100
2020118
2021141
2022111
202384
202494
2025134
202683
134papers · 2025 · modality, not brand+43%

PubMed counts publications; ClinicalTrials.gov counts registrations. Neither is a quality score.

What that literature is made of

By publication type · all years

All records on this querythe set every row below is drawn from1,485
Systematic review / meta-analysis5.0% of the total74
Randomised controlled trial15.7% of the total233
Clinical trial (any type)22.3% of the total331
Review13.1% of the total194
Case report11.0% of the total163
Ablative / hybrid fractional laser — PubMed records by publication type, all years
PubMed records
All records on this query1,485
Systematic review / meta-analysis74
Randomised controlled trial233
Clinical trial (any type)331
Review194
Case report163

Each row is one publication typePublication typeThe label the literature index attaches to a paper to say what kind of work it is, which is assigned by the index rather than by this site., and the rows overlap: PubMed explodes Clinical trial, so it already contains the randomised trials, and the systematic-review subset intersects Review. They do not sum to the total. Bar length is the count against this modality's own query total; rows are in the order the source file defines them, not by size.

What each modality's PubMed total is made of, by publication type. Counting study types is not a quality assessment.

PubMed query, verbatim

("ablative fractional"[tiab] OR "fractional CO2"[tiab] OR "fractional carbon dioxide"[tiab] OR "fractional erbium"[tiab] OR "erbium:YAG"[tiab]) AND (skin[tiab] OR cutaneous[tiab] OR resurfacing[tiab] OR wrinkle*[tiab] OR scar*[tiab] OR rejuvenation[tiab])

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ClinicalTrials.gov query, verbatim

intervention: ("ablative fractional laser" OR "fractional CO2 laser" OR "carbon dioxide laser" OR "erbium YAG laser") condition: (skin OR wrinkles OR scars OR photoaging OR rejuvenation OR resurfacing)

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Treatment areas

What matched, and where
AreaMatched termSource string
Wrinkles & lineswrinkleClinicalTrials.gov condition query for Ablative / hybrid fractional laser
Photoaging & rejuvenationphotoagingClinicalTrials.gov condition query for Ablative / hybrid fractional laser
ScarsscarClinicalTrials.gov condition query for Ablative / hybrid fractional laser

Derived by keyword rule, not the cleared or approved indication.

Sources

No adverse-event data is published anywhere on this site.