Laser treatments are an excellent way to rejuvenate and clarify your skin. There are many different types of laser therapies, and here are a few of our favorites…
Fractional CO2
Laser skin resurfacing is a proven way to help reduce wrinkles, age spots, acne scars, and other blemishes as well as tighten skin and balance tone.
In the hands of a highly trained, knowledgeable professional, laser resurfacing is a safe way to dramatically improve your skin’s appearance. In the hands of a poorly trained individual, lasers can be ineffective or even dangerous.
Intense Pulsed Light (IPL)
Intense pulsed light (IPL) is a technology used by cosmetic and medical practitioners to perform various skin treatments for aesthetic and therapeutic purposes, including hair removal, photorejuvenation (e.g. the treatment of skin pigmentation, sun damage, and thread veins) as well as to alleviate dermatologic diseases such as acne.
IPL is employed in the treatment of a range of dermatological conditions including photodamage induced dyspigmentation and vascular changes, poikiloderma of Civatte, rosacea, acne vulgaris, sebaceous gland hyperplasia, broken capillaries/telangiectases, vascular lesions (small blood vessels), pigmented lesions (freckles, liver spots, birth marks ), melasma, actinic keratosis, photorejuvenation, basal cell carcinoma, and Bowen’s disease (squamous cell carcinoma).
Alexandrite (755 nm)
It has many clinical applications in medicine of which dermatology is one of those fields that alexandrite laser therapy made a difference in treating various skin conditions. It is effective in the clearance of pigmented lesions such as Nevus of Ota, nevomelanocytic nevi, lentigines and freckles; removal of tattoos of blue to black color; removal of unwanted hair in various skin types; and treatment of telangectasias. Reported complications are not specific to alexandrite and some are temporary, which can resolve with time.
Nd:YAG (1064 nm)
The neodymium:yttrium-aluminium-garnet-(Nd:YAG) laser is one of the most versatile and interesting lasers in dermatological laser medicine. Almost no other laser has such a wide spectrum of applications. Depending on wave length (1064 nm, frequency-doubled 532 nm) and mode (continuous, Q-switched, long-pulsed), benign pigmented lesions (tattoos, traumatic tattoos, naevus of Ota, cafe-au-lait-macules, lentigines) and vascular lesions (hemangiomas, portwine stains, essential teleangiectasias, angiomas) can be treated. Additionally this Nd:YAG has been occasionally used to remove Kaposi sarcomas and epithelial skin tumors.
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