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IPL/RF SKIN TREATMENT
For Beautiful, Shining, Youthful Looking Skin
Is your face, hands, neck, or chest covered with dilated capillaries, blotchy brown spots, areas of pigmentation or freckles? Are you embarrassed when flush or blush unpredictably and uncontrollably? Is your face constantly red? Is the texture of the skin of your face coarse and orange peel-like? Are you plagued by rosacea, that chronic skin disease that makes your skin red, blush, and break out? If so, there is a new treatment, one without any 'downtime' that can substantially improve these problems and make your skin look young again - the Photofacial/RF.
Introducing The IPL/RF Skin Treatment
Towards the end of 1990's, a novel revolutionary new approach to facial rejuvenation, using Intense Pulsed Light (IPL/ RF). This treatment involved flashing pulses of very bright light in a controlled fashion onto the skin of the face, neck, chest, and/or arms while simultaneously cooling the epidermis. In doing so, the light energy passed through the epidermis without damaging it to the dermis below. There, the light energy exerted its beneficial effect of reducing redness, blotchy patches of hyper-pigmentation, brown spots, and to a lesser extent, improving wrinkles and skin texture. Patients could return to work or other activities immediately after a treatment.
In the last few years experiments were done adding radio frequency energy to the laser. Together they increase the positive effect of either energy alone. Not only are red and brown skin abnormalities significantly decreased, but much more than just IPL alone, wrinkles, texture, scars, and skin laxity may be improved.
What Type Of Results From IPL/RF Can I Expect?
How Much Improvements Will I See?
We see usually a 75% improvement in redness, dilated capillaries, brown spots, hyper-pigmentation and skin texture with Photo Facial/RF. Improvement in fine wrinkles, is variable. Overall, your skin will look brighter, fresher, and more youthful. It will shine again as it once did when you were younger.
Skin treated with IPL/RF - Before and After
IPL/RF SKIN TREATMENT
For Beautiful, Shining, Youthful Looking Skin
Is your face, hands, neck, or chest covered with dilated capillaries, blotchy brown spots, areas of pigmentation or freckles? Are you embarrassed when flush or blush unpredictably and uncontrollably? Is your face constantly red? Is the texture of the skin of your face coarse and orange peel-like? Are you plagued by rosacea, that chronic skin disease that makes your skin red, blush, and break out? If so, there is a new treatment, one without any 'downtime' that can substantially improve these problems and make your skin look young again - the Photofacial/RF.
Introducing The IPL/RF Skin Treatment
Towards the end of 1990's, a novel revolutionary new approach to facial rejuvenation, using Intense Pulsed Light (IPL/ RF). This treatment involved flashing pulses of very bright light in a controlled fashion onto the skin of the face, neck, chest, and/or arms while simultaneously cooling the epidermis. In doing so, the light energy passed through the epidermis without damaging it to the dermis below. There, the light energy exerted its beneficial effect of reducing redness, blotchy patches of hyper-pigmentation, brown spots, and to a lesser extent, improving wrinkles and skin texture. Patients could return to work or other activities immediately after a treatment.
In the last few years experiments were done adding radio frequency energy to the laser. Together they increase the positive effect of either energy alone. Not only are red and brown skin abnormalities significantly decreased, but much more than just IPL alone, wrinkles, texture, scars, and skin laxity may be improved.
What Type Of Results From IPL/RF Can I Expect?
How Much Improvements Will I See?
We see usually a 75% improvement in redness, dilated capillaries, brown spots, hyper-pigmentation and skin texture with Photo Facial/RF. Improvement in fine wrinkles, is variable. Overall, your skin will look brighter, fresher, and more youthful. It will shine again as it once did when you were younger.
Skin treated with IPL/RF - Before and After
Are There Any People Who Cannot Undergo IPL/RF?
IPL/RF is not indicated in patients with connective tissue disease or auto immune disorders. It cannot be done during pregnancy, nor can it be done on recently suntanned skin (we wait until the tan fades) or in those who may receive excess sun exposure for a few weeks following treatment. It cannot be used on patients taking Accutane. You must have stopped Roaccutane for at least two months prior to starting IPL/RF. The procedure is not usually done on patients with active acne cysts, large pustules or highly active rosacea. Most photosensitive medications such as antibiotics, anti-anxiety drugs, sulfa drugs, birth control pills and anti¬hypertensive medications are not a contraindication. Care must be taken in patients who get cold sores. An anti-herpes medication can be taken to avoid activations of this virus. There is no age limit for IPL/RF.
How Long Will The Beneficial Effects Of IPL/RF Last?
Will I Need Additional Treatments To Maintain the Results?
After your initial treatments we recommend maintenance treatments every 4-6 months. However, even without regular follow up treatments, the positive results of our IPL/RF treatments can last a considerable length of time. Of course, sun exposure, smoking, aging, etc., can reduce the longevity of these benefits.
Who are Candidates For IPL/RF Skin Treatments?
Sun damage is very prevalent in New Zealanders, with the harshest sun in the world. Sun exposure also accelerates wrinkles around the eyes, cheeks, and mouth. Those people who have noticeable signs of excessive sun damage including redness, dilated capillaries, wrinkles, brown spots, areas of diffuse pigmentation, and coarse skin texture are all ideal candidates for IPL/RF treatments.
Rosacea, an exceedingly common skin affliction manifests by facial redness, spontaneous uncontrolled flushing and blushing, and acne breakouts. While topical and oral antibiotics reduce the associated acne breakouts, until IPL there was no effective treatment for the redness, flushing, and blushing. Now this common skin disorder is readily and effectively treated by IPL/RF. Flushing, blushing, and redness can be reduced as much as 70% in many cases, and acne breakouts improved substantially as well.
What Is A PIL/RF Skin Treatment Treatment Like?
How Long Do They Take? Are They Painful?
IPL/RF treatments are simple, convenient, quick, and painless. After covering your eyes with protective glasses, we place a thin layer of cool gel over the treated area, press the IPL/RF device onto your skin and flash. The flashes are repeated until the entire area has been treated. Depending on the size of the area, an IPL/RF treatment usually takes between 15 and 30 minutes and most clients refer to a feeling of warmth.
Do I Need More Than One Treatment?
IPL/RF does not exert its full beneficial effect in only one treatment; they must be repeated over several treatmants. Three or more treatments over the span of nine weeks may be required. That is, one treatment every three weeks.
What Conditions Will This Treatment Not Help?
IPL/RF won't treat frown lines, sometimes known as lines of expression on the face, especially the forehead and between the brows. IPL/RF is not a substitute for a face-life and will not help baggy or sagging skin. It will not cure the puffiness around the eyes for which blepharoplasty surgery is usually performed. It is not a treatment for skin cancer, but can reduce pre-cancers called actinic keratosis. It won't remove bumpy moles, but can reduce their pigment. Although, it will remove acquired freckling, genetic freckles usually return after treatment. It will not remove seborrheic keratosis including the tiny genetic ones on the upper cheeks and around the eyes sometimes called dermatosis papulosa nigra. It also will not remove sebaceous hyperplasias, a benign growth of oil glands in the skin.
Are There any Side Effects?
Most side effects of IPL/RF are mild and of short duration. These can consist of short-term discomfort during and after the actual treatment. There is usually additional redness immediately following treatment, lasting less than 24 hours in most people, on rare occasions it may last up to three days. Mild blistering and bruising is possible but in our experience occur in less than 1% and usually clear very quickly. A post treatment increase in pigmentation (hyper-pigmentation) has been noted on occasion, but is highly treatable and uncommon. Even more rare is a decrease in pigmentation (hypo-pigmentation) of the skin after treatments. We have never seen a scar or an infection of the skin after treatment, but these can occur. Swelling of the face for 3-5 days occasionally occurs and is most common in severely sun-damaged skin due to reduced quality of connective tissue around the blood vessels.
Will IPL/RF Treatments Help My Acne Scars?
Shallow scars including fine lines may be improved, but "ice pick" type acne scarring and deep scars will not be helped. Laser resurfacing or denmabrasion are usually indicated here.
What If The Redness And Sun Damage Extends To My Neck, Chest, Hands, And Arms? Can These Areas Be Treated?
Yes, these areas can also be treated successfully, much like the face. Many women especially are delighted to get rid of the "V-neck" effect of sun damage that has accumulated in these areas from years of sun exposure.
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