Ablative skin treatments penetrate through the skin, while non-ablative treatments do not.

“Ablative means it penetrates the skin. No. Oh, yes. Ablative, yes. And non-ablative, not doesn't penetrate the skin.”

“So what are the non-ablative which are presumably the less severe which means shorter recovery time less overall response. So non-ablative things you can start with even your topical skincare regimen because that is going to remodel the skin and set the stage for you to even prime it so you make more collagen and then you can do things such as light chemical peels which are only going to affect the epidermis of the skin. You can do things like non-ablative fractional lasers and those are going to again send tiny fractionated beams of light onto the very surface of the skin and just damage the upper layers of the epidermis and that's going to stimulate a cascade of cytoines to build on the collagen and texture but it's going to be minor and they might help with some minor pigmentation issues.”