Fractional CO2 laser simulator · For practices
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PreviewMD’s fractional CO2 laser simulator is an AI preview tool practices embed on their own website and use in consultations. A patient uploads one front-facing photo and sees a photorealistic preview of their likely fractional CO2 result in about 3 to 4 minutes.
No developer needed. Live on your site in minutes.
How it works
How does a patient preview a fractional CO2 laser result?
On your website or in your consult room: one front-facing photo, and a photorealistic before and after with a comparison slider about 3 to 4 minutes later. The photo is processed for the preview and never stored.
They upload a photo
Taken right on the page, following the widget’s on-screen guidance. There’s nothing to download and nothing to book first.
They see their result
A realistic AI preview of what a fractional CO2 laser could do to their own skin. The AI is tuned by a practicing plastic surgeon with decades of experience.
Fractional CO2 preview · 2 min on your site
You get the lead
They share their name and contact info with your practice before the preview renders. The lead lands in your CRM while they’re still looking at the result.
The live demo
Try it on your own photo.
The demo runs the same engine your patients would use. Open the live demo, upload a photo, watch the preview render in about 3 to 4 minutes, and judge the quality yourself.
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This is a real PreviewMD render.
It was made exactly the way your patients’ previews are made, on a computer-generated face rather than a patient. No retouching, no filter.
Why the lines are still there
A fractional laser treats the skin in a grid of tiny dots and leaves untreated skin in between. The preview has to leave the lines there too.
The colour is where this laser wins: sun spots, brown age spots and mottled damage clear, and the tone evens out across the whole face. The lines are a different story. Every wrinkle in the photograph is still in the preview, each one finer and shallower, and the deeper ones change least. That is one pass, which is what the patient is deciding about. Passes can be repeated months apart, and the skin keeps improving toward what a full resurfacing does in one operation. The preview shows the pass in front of them, not the end of a course.
For your practice
Every preview is a lead.
Fractional resurfacing carries real downtime, and a results gallery only ever shows somebody else’s face. The simulator shows a visitor their own likely result, on their own skin. Before the preview renders, they share their name and contact info with your practice.
The contact info goes straight into your CRM or EMR with the procedure attached; your dashboard shows every capture and the page it came from. Your coordinator follows up with a patient who has already tried the procedure on, and the consult starts from a shared picture instead of a blank page.
Fractional CO2 preview · 2 min on your site
Compared with 3D simulation
How is this different from 3D skin simulation?
Canfield and Crisalix smooth skin with a slider somebody drags by hand. Quantificare measures rather than predicts: it records roughness and wrinkle depth after the treatment has happened. PreviewMD shows the amount of change one fractional pass actually gives. For the wider picture, read what AI actually does in plastic surgery.
| 3D simulation |  PreviewMD | |
|---|---|---|
| Runs inside your own website | Partlya banner links out to their app | Yes |
| No hardware or capture session | Partlysoftware tools still need a photo session | Yes |
| Published monthly price | No | Yes |
| Every preview delivers a lead | Partlytheir patient app captures some | Yes |
| Setup | Three to six photos from set angles, or a camera system in the office | One photo, taken on the patient’s phone |
| Where it runs | In the consultation, or an app you send the patient to | Your website and your consult room |
| Output | Skin smoothed by hand, or measured after treatment | Their own skin, changed by as much as one pass gives |
| Pricing | Quoted through sales | Public: $249–$999 per month, 14-day trial |
| Time to live | Onboarding and training, plus hardware for the camera systems | On your site the same day |
See how PreviewMD compares with Quantificare, Canfield VECTRA and Crisalix, or browse every comparison.
Questions
What practices ask.
What is the PreviewMD fractional CO2 laser simulator?
An AI tool your practice offers patients, on your website and in consults, that turns one photo into a photorealistic preview of a likely fractional CO2 laser result in about 3-4 minutes. It’s built for practices; patients use it through you, not through a consumer app.
How is this different from the deep CO2 laser resurfacing simulator?
Mostly it is a question of how much, and in how many visits. This simulator shows one pass of a fractional laser: the colour clears and the lines soften without going away. Deep resurfacing is the fully ablative operation, done once, where the wrinkling largely goes and the skin tightens. Fractional passes can be repeated months apart and the result keeps building toward the same place, which is the trade a patient is actually weighing: one longer recovery against several shorter ones. If your practice offers both, the two simulators are separate on your account and a patient previews whichever one you turn on.
Does the preview show one treatment or the finished result?
One pass. That is deliberate, because one pass is what the patient is booking and what they will see in the mirror afterwards. Fractional treatments are usually a course, spaced months apart, and the skin keeps improving with each one. Setting the expectation at a single pass is the part that protects the consult: a patient who expected the whole course from one visit is disappointed at the follow-up, and that conversation lands on your coordinator.
How realistic are the fractional CO2 previews?
The model is fine-tuned with a double board certified plastic surgeon, more than three decades in practice, and tuned separately for men and for women. It is built around the mechanism. A fractional laser treats a grid of tiny dots and leaves skin untreated in between. So the preview softens lines rather than erasing them, and leaves the folds, jowls and jawline exactly where they were.
Does the preview tighten the skin or the eyelids?
No. That belongs to the deeper, fully ablative pass, where the skin contracts and the eyelid skin tightens with it. A fractional treatment does not shrink the skin, so the simulator does not tighten anything: no hanging fold flattens and the jawline and neck are unchanged.
Does the simulator work for every patient’s skin tone?
No, and the widget says so before it renders anything. CO2 lasers can permanently change pigment in darker skin, so the patient is asked to match their skin against a tone scale first. Where the laser isn’t right for their skin, they’re told that and pointed back to your practice rather than shown a result. They still reach you as a lead.
What about acne scarring?
The preview softens it slightly and leaves every scar visible. Fractional lasers are widely marketed for acne scarring, so it is the claim most worth being careful about. The model is deliberately conservative here. A preview that erased the scarring would promise something the treatment does not deliver on its own.
What stops a patient treating the preview as a promise?
The widget tells them on the result screen, in plain words. Previews are visualizations that support the consultation: individual results vary, nothing is guaranteed, and what is achievable for a particular patient’s skin is the surgeon’s determination. The preview’s job is to start that conversation, not to settle it.
What will I look like after a fractional CO2 laser?
The most direct way to find out is a preview rendered on your own photo. PreviewMD runs on practices’ websites: upload one photo there and see a realistic before and after in about 3-4 minutes. Ask your provider whether they offer PreviewMD on their site.
How does a patient use it on my website?
They tap the preview button, take or upload one photo following the widget’s on-screen guidance, share their name and contact info with your practice, and see their before and after with a comparison slider about 3-4 minutes later. You receive the lead either way.
What photos work best?
One clear, well-lit photo taken straight on, with hair back off the face and forehead and no glasses. A phone selfie works. The widget checks the photo before rendering and asks for a retake if it won’t produce a usable preview.
Does the simulator store patient photos?
No. Photos are processed to generate the preview and are not retained by PreviewMD.
What does the fractional CO2 laser simulator cost?
It’s included in every PreviewMD plan: $249 to $999 per month depending on preview volume and branding, with a 14-day free trial. Full details on the pricing page.
What other procedures can patients preview?
Each additional simulator ships only after the surgeon signing it off. To see every live simulator, check out the simulators page.
See your result before you decide.
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