A wide variety of skin discolorations and irregularities can be treated with laser skin resurfacing. Whether you are troubled by wrinkles, age spots, birthmarks or circles under the eyes, there is a laser treatment to relieve your distress. Non-invasive and quick to complete, most treatments can be administered without interfering with your daily schedule.
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For treating lines and wrinkles, a combination of skin resurfacing and skin-tightening procedures can be used or both can be accomplished with a laser treatment. Laser procedures are commonly used for the removal of warts and skin tags and for cutting skin in laser-assisted surgery.
Most cosmetic laser procedures provide some level of superficial tightening at the least, because they produce a controlled injury of the skin, which encourages increased collagen production. In addition to lasers, there has been much success using non-laser, light-based treatments, such as infrared devices and Thermage radio-frequency based systems for skin tightening.
The most-commonly used lasers for the treatment of pigmented lesions, such as sun spots, age spots melasma and other forms of hyperpigmentation.
Vascular lesions include broken blood vessels on the face, unsightly veins on the legs, spider nevi, hemangiomas and certain birth marks such as port wine stains. For these types of skin irregularities, Cosmetic laser procedures are a common choice, as it is minimally invasive.
The success and safety of laser hair removal is highly dependent on the pigment present in both the skin and the hair of the patient being treated.
For acne scars, laser have shown considerable success on acne scarring. For the treatment of active acne, LED technology has also proven to be quite effective.