Histopathology showed moderate hyperkeratosis and rete ridge elongation with the epidermal thinning above the papillar layer and a few melanophages in the dermis.
Exodermis An outermost layer of thickened or suberized cortical cells that sometimes replaces the epidermal layer in the older parts of roots if the epidermal cells have died.
So pass that outer epidermal layer into the dermal layers of the skin and can access the vasculature, the neurons, some of the glands located deeper in the skin.
That is a laser used to essentially disrupt that epidermal outermost layer, turn it over so that it regenerates, because it can indeed regenerate, to create new cells there.
Initially, ink is deposited into the epidermis as well, but as the skin heals, the damaged epidermal cells are shed and replaced by new, dye-free cells with the topmost layer peeling off like heeling sunburn.
In fact, The dermatologist that I spoke to who's an expert in derm oncology, okay, cancers of the skin, said that laser resurfacing can cause a 30% reduction in skin cancers because of this ability to rejuvenate that epidermal layer.