Dot therapy patient Sandy Rowland is on a mission -- a mission to rid her face of wrinkles.

"I feel young, you know, now I want to look younger," Rowland said.

Doctor Roger Bassin said microscopic puncture wounds -- or dots -- deliver CO2 energy that tightens skin and smoothes wrinkles.

Because the laser beam is split, it leaves areas of healthy skin between the rows of dots. Traditional lasers target all the skin -- often causing severe burning and scabbing.

"We would blast all the skin off at once,” Bassin said. “It would look like you got dragged on the pavement by your face pretty much. That's how patients would describe it."

The split beam gentle laser can treat wrinkles, crow's feet, sun spots and even pre-cancerous lesions.

Rowland said the discomfort is minimal.

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Patients get a topical numbing cream instead of anesthesia. The downtime is as little as three days. The recovery for traditional laser therapy is up to two months.

After 10 minutes, Rowland was done.

Forty-seven-year-old journalist Denise Enos had the dot procedure as part of a recent assignment.

"I am always skeptical, as a reporter," she said.

Her results weren't drastic, but she says she's happy with them.

"What you have to expect is an improvement that some people might not even notice, but that shouldn't matter if you notice," Enos said.

And like every cosmetic procedure, this one-time treatment comes with a price tag -- $2,000.