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Article History

Received: 2 June 2026

Accepted: 11 August 2026

First Online: 18 August 2026

Declarations

Ethics approval and consent to participate: This retrospective study was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki (1975) and was approved by the Allendale Investigational Review Board (AIRB), an independent Institutional Review Board, Old Lyme, Connecticut, USA. The IRB application was submitted by Cynosure-Lutronic on behalf of the investigators. The authors are not affiliated with AIRB, which operates as an independent Institutional Review Board. The requirement for informed consent to participate in this retrospective study was waived by AIRB due to the retrospective study design. All patients had provided written informed consent for the clinical procedures performed and written authorization for the use of their anonymized clinical data and clinical photographs for research and publication purposes. The energy-based device used in this study was approved for clinical use by the Israeli Ministry of Health, and all procedures were performed within their approved indications. All data were fully anonymized and securely encrypted to ensure that no individual patient could be identified. Clinical trial registration: Not applicable.

Competing interests: Conflict of Interest: G.E. serves as an international trainer for Cynosure–Lutronic. E.D. and Y.W. declare that they have no competing interests.