RIVER'S EDGE
ABLATIVE SKIN TIGHTENING
River's Edge Medspa
Skin Resurfacing / Skin Ablative Tightening
The Medspa at River's Edge Wellness Center offers advanced, medically supervised iPixel Skin Resurfacing treatments to help you achieve smoother, firmer, beautifully renewed skin. Our iPixel laser therapy, powered by the Alma Harmony XL Pro, is a precise and highly effective fractional ablative treatment designed to target acne scars, surgical scars, fine lines and wrinkles, sun damage, enlarged pores, uneven texture, and overall skin quality. By delivering controlled micro-channels of laser energy into the skin, it remodels damaged tissue and stimulates your body's natural collagen and elastin response for visibly smoother, tighter, more youthful-looking skin. Each treatment is personalized to your unique skin goals and performed by our trained and licensed laser technicians under the expert medical oversight of Ashley Sutton, FNP, MSN, ensuring a comfortable, safe, and transformative resurfacing journey. Our comprehensive approach helps you reveal refined, refreshed, beautifully restored skin confidently—and maintain those stunning results long-term.
Resurfacing, Ablative, and Fractional
Three precise technologies working together in a single treatment — delivering the dramatic results of a CO2 laser without the dramatic downtime.
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Resurfacing — iPixel removes and remodels the skin's outer layers to reveal a smoother, firmer, more refined complexion beneath. Acne scars soften. Fine lines fade. Sun damage lifts away. Texture transforms. This is the same treatment category as traditional CO2 lasers — the difference lies in how we deliver it.
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Ablative — Unlike gentle, surface-only treatments, iPixel actively vaporizes microscopic columns of damaged skin, triggering a complete renewal response from your body. This is what creates iPixel's dramatic, visible results — the same depth of correction a CO2 laser provides, with precision that protects the rest of your skin.
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Fractional — Here's where iPixel changes the game. Instead of treating 100% of the skin as a traditional full-field CO2 laser would, iPixel treats only a fraction of the surface at a time, leaving healthy, untouched tissue between each micro-channel. That healthy tissue accelerates healing dramatically — delivering CO2-level results in just 3–7 days of gentle skin renewal, rather than the 2–3 weeks of intense recovery a full CO2 treatment typically requires.
The result: the powerful resurfacing benefits clients used to travel for — now available in Durango, with a fraction of the downtime, performed under the expert medical oversight of Ashley Sutton, FNP, MSN, at River's Edge Wellness Center.
Precision Resurfacing. Powered by Alma
The iPixel laser by Alma is a fractional ablative Er: YAG (Erbium: Yttrium Aluminum Garnet) laser operating at a precise 2940nm wavelength — the gold-standard wavelength for skin resurfacing. Its precision-engineered scanner divides the treatment area into a perfectly mapped grid of microscopic columns, vaporizing damaged tissue in each column while leaving the surrounding skin completely intact. This patterned, fractional delivery is what makes iPixel both powerful enough to remodel deep skin concerns and gentle enough to fit into real life.
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Skin Resurfacing & Texture Renewal
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Acne Scar Reduction: rolling and boxcar scarring over a series of treatments.
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Surgical & Traumatic Scar Revision
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Fine Line & Wrinkle Reduction
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Sun Damage & Pigmentation Correction
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Pore Refinement
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Stretch Mark Improvement
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Overall Skin Quality & Radiance
One laser. One platform. Eight distinct skin transformations. That versatility is exactly why iPixel has become the go-to resurfacing treatment at elite medspas worldwide — and why we chose it as the cornerstone of skin renewal at River's Edge.
ERBIUM vs. CO2 LASER
Frequently Asked Questions
Not Just a Medspa
At River's Edge, Ashley offers her clients an experience. After your treatment, enjoy a tea or drink while you look out at the river. View the art on display throughout the building. Ashley's services are now complimented with a building that is as beautiful as her business. If you are unsure what you might need, come in for a free consultation!