— Advanced Laser Masterclass · Course Agenda
A full clinical day built around live patient cases — structured the way medicine is actually taught. You will see how Dr. Saami selects, sequences, and stacks every laser on the Sciton platform, and why.
Date
October 16, 2026
Hours
7:30 AM – 5:45 PM
Capacity
10 Participants
Location
SOM Aesthetics, Encinitas
— How This Course Is Built
You already know what these lasers do. What you cannot get from a manual or a manufacturer rep is how an expert decides — where to deviate from protocol, when to stop, and what to combine. That is the entire day.
01
A required pre-course module covers wavelengths, chromophores, Fitzpatrick considerations, contraindications, and baseline device safety. Nothing on course day is spent on entry-level content — the room starts at an advanced level and stays there.
02
Every block opens with a real patient: history, photos, skin type, goals. You commit to a treatment plan out loud before Dr. Saami reveals his. Then he executes and walks through the difference. This is how residents are taught, and it is why the reasoning sticks.
03
Knowing when to stop is the skill that separates competent from excellent, and it cannot be learned from a settings chart. Dr. Saami narrates endpoints as they appear — pinpoint bleeding, tissue contraction, chamois color, erythema quality — on real tissue, in real time.
04
A dedicated clinical scribe records every parameter Dr. Saami uses, on every patient, along with the reasoning behind each deviation. You leave with the actual numbers — not the manufacturer's starting recommendations.
— The Day, Hour by Hour
The day moves from the most aggressive modality to the most refined — deep ablative resurfacing in the morning while everyone is freshest, progressing through fractional, hybrid, and light-based work into targeted lesion treatment.
This agenda is preliminary and subject to change. Because these are live patient cases, timing, sequence, and specific treatments may shift based on model availability and clinical findings on the day. A confirmed agenda will be sent to enrolled participants before the course.
Participants without the Contour TRL add-on should arrive by 11:15 AM and join the group at the chair at 11:30 AM for the Halo Tribrid neck and chest treatment, then continue through the close.
Check-in, breakfast, laser safety orientation for the day, and room ground rules. Eye protection issued. Please arrive between 7:30 and 8:00 AM — we move to the treatment room promptly at 8:00.
The day starts at the chair, because a full-face Contour patient needs time to numb. Consent, pre-medication, and the layered anesthesia protocol, narrated step by step as the patient is prepared. Plume and thermal management, staffing roles inside the room, and a full walkthrough of the parameters before the first pass — including what would change them.
While the anesthesia takes effect, Dr. Saami's Contour TRL didactic, then the case: history, photographs, skin type, goals, and prior treatment. You build and commit to a plan. Dr. Saami then presents his — depth selection, zonal mapping, and why he pairs full-face Contour with Halo Tribrid on the neck and chest — and explains where and why the two plans differ.
The flagship case: full-face ablative resurfacing at depth, narrated pass by pass. Handpiece angle, direction of travel, overlap, feathering into the hairline and jawline, periorbital and perioral modifications, and how zonal depth changes across a single face. Small-group rotation ensures direct sightlines at the chair.
The same patient, continued below the jawline. Three wavelengths in one handpiece — Halo's 1470 and 2940 nm plus MOXI's 1927 nm — and why the neck and chest call for a different approach than the face: lower density, adjusted depth, and blending the treated zones so the transition at the jawline is invisible. Masterclass participants join the group here.
Endpoint evaluation with the whole group at the chair. Dressing and occlusive strategy for face, neck, and chest; the day 1 through day 14 recovery timeline; red flags; patient scripting; and what to tell a patient before they ever book this treatment.
Catered.
A surgical scar, treated with ProFractional followed by laser-assisted drug delivery. Depth and density selection for a linear, often tethered scar, what is delivered through the channels and why, and how timing relative to the original surgery changes the plan. Scar work is a series, not a single treatment, and it is planned differently from rejuvenation.
The same technology on a different problem. Acne scarring by morphology — ice pick, boxcar, rolling — and how depth, density, and the delivered agent change from the surgical case you just watched. Session count, interval spacing, and setting realistic expectations for a multi-session series.
Refreshments.
Halo Tribrid back on the face, on a new patient. Where the morning's neck and chest work was about blending below the jawline, this case is about building a full-face plan: how the 1470, 2940, and 1927 nm components are weighted for this patient's concerns, density against downtime, and where a hybrid treatment fits between the ProFractional work you just saw and the light-based stacking that follows.
The stacking block. Two modalities on one face in a single visit — why this order and not the reverse, how cumulative thermal load is budgeted across a session, filter selection logic, how settings — and candidacy — change as skin type rises, and where the combination stops being additive and starts being risky.
Two fast, high-yield treatments most practices underuse. ClearV for cherry angiomas and facial vessels, with an immediate visible endpoint you can learn to recognize. ClearSilk for onychomycosis — a different patient population, a different revenue model, and a treatment series worth building into your menu.
A patient you have not seen. Working from photographs and history, you build the full annual treatment architecture: which devices, in what order, how many sessions, spaced how, and priced how. Dr. Saami critiques each plan live.
Course materials distributed, including complete settings documentation from every case treated during the day.
— Technologies Covered
Seven treatments across the Sciton platform. Every one demonstrated on a real patient by Dr. Saami — not on a model arm, not on video.
Contour TRL
Full-Face Ablative Resurfacing
Deep full-field ablation. Zonal depth mapping, anesthesia protocol, pass technique, endpoint recognition, and the recovery course you must be prepared to manage.
ProFractional
Scar Revision
Surgical and acne scars, each paired with laser-assisted drug delivery. Depth and density selection by scar morphology, what goes through the channels, and series planning.
Halo Tribrid
Three-Wavelength Face, Neck & Chest Resurfacing
Halo's 1470 and 2940 nm plus MOXI's 1927 nm in one handpiece, demonstrated twice: on the neck and chest alongside full-face Contour, and as a full-face case of its own in the afternoon. How each is weighted, density against downtime, and blending treated zones at the jawline.
BBL HEROic
Broadband Light
Filter selection logic rather than filter charts. Corrective versus conditioning strategy, how settings and candidacy change as skin type rises, and HERO parameters.
MOXI
Non-Ablative Fractional
Demonstrated as the second half of a stacked treatment — sequencing, cumulative thermal load, and where it fits in a maintenance protocol.
ClearV
Vascular & Angiomas
Targeted lesion work with an immediate visible endpoint. Cherry angiomas and facial vessels — fast, high-margin, and consistently underused.
ClearSilk
Onychomycosis
A different patient population and a different revenue model. Treatment series structure, realistic expectation setting, and menu integration.
Stacking Strategy
Woven Throughout
What combines safely, in what order, and what does not. Same-day versus staged sequencing, and how to build a treatment plan across a full year.
— What You Leave With
Advanced training is only worth what you can still apply six months later. Everything below is designed to survive the drive home.
Every parameter used on every patient during the day, captured live by a dedicated clinical scribe — with the reasoning behind each deviation from standard protocol, not just the numbers.
A structure for sequencing modalities across a treatment year rather than selling single treatments — the difference between a patient who books once and a patient who books for a decade.
What combines, in what order, with what interval — and the combinations Dr. Saami will not perform, with the reasoning behind each.
Real cases from Dr. Saami's own practice: what went wrong, what he did, what he would do differently. Including the patients he declines and why.
Patient selection criteria, consent language, pre-treatment preparation, and the post-operative scripting SOM uses for ablative recovery.
Enrolled participants receive a required pre-course workbook approximately two weeks before the date, with four practice cases to work through before arriving and a short online knowledge check. Completing it is a prerequisite — it is what allows the entire day to be spent on advanced clinical judgment rather than fundamentals. Plan for roughly 45 minutes.
— October 16, 2026 · Encinitas, CA
The Advanced Laser Masterclass is capped at ten participants so that everyone has a direct line of sight to the chair and direct access to Dr. Saami throughout the day.
Questions about the agenda? Call 760-766-7546 or email training@som.md
This agenda is preliminary and has not been finalized. Timing, sequence, and treatments demonstrated are subject to change. Live patient cases are dependent on model availability and clinical suitability on the day of training.