Lasers & Light Treatment for Rosacea
This is a device that emits a powerful beam of light of a specific wavelength. The word is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Different types of lasers may be used to treat different skin conditions.
Lasers of different color (wavelength), intensity, or pattern may be used to remove unwanted hair, decrease the visibility of spider veins, decrease the appearance of pigmented lesions, smooth out wrinkles, or tighten skin.
Ablative lasers, which are used to smooth wrinkles and acne scarring, wound the skin to some degree, causing a variable amount of crusting, scabbing, and redness. Nonablative lasers, which are used to decrease skin redness, brown discoloration, and sagging skin and to remove unwanted hair, do not wound the surface of the skin and therefore require little or no healing time.
Laser skin resufacing removes the skin's wrinkled, scarred, or splotchy upper layers, and allows the growth of new skin that is more youthful appearing. Until recently, the CO2 laser was the only option for resurfacing procedures. Although it can make a person look significantly younger, it requires at least a week of recovery time. However, there are now more gentle resurfacing lasers available, such as the Fraxel, Fractional CO2, Active FX, Pearl, and the Portrait plasma laser. All of these are less traumatizing to the skin and require less downtime, but may require multiple treatments to achieve the same results. but require far less downtime than the traditional CO2 laser.
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