Laser Skin Care

What is laser skin care?

Laser skin care improves the skin texture and appearance by removing layers of skin to eliminate the wrinkled, scarred, or dark skin through the use of lasers. Lasers can resurface the skin to eliminate or reduce wrinkles and dark spots, remove unwanted tattoos, reduce or eliminate the appearance of spider veins, and remove unwanted body hair.

What is Photofacial?

Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) Photofacial is a laser skin treatment that improves the appearance of brown spots, red spots, sun damage, and rosacea. Photofacial treatments can be used on the sensitive skin of the face and neck, along with most all other body parts to reduce the signs of aging.

What does Photofacial treat?

Angie uses Photofacial for patients looking to treat a variety of skin conditions and imperfections to give a younger, healthier appearance, including:

• Dark spots
• Sun damage
• Pigment imperfections
• Redness of the skin
• Spider veins
• Enlarged facial blood vessels (rosacea)
• Freckles

What is resurfacing?

Laser skin resurfacing, also called laser peel, laser vaporization, and lasabrasion, uses special laser technologies to reduce facial wrinkles, blemishes, and scars.

How does laser skin resurfacing work?

Angie uses a laser to send pulsating beams of light to the areas of irregular skin. The lasers remove damaged skin one layer at a time, while revealing the healthier skin layers underneath and stimulating the growth of new collagen fibers. Using lasers allows Angie to target precise trouble spots, making laser skin resurfacing an ideal treatment for removing acne scars or warts.

Laser skin resurfacing can treat:

• Wrinkles and lines around and under eyes, on the forehead, or around the mouth
• Acne or chickenpox scars
• Warts
• Liver spots
• Sun-damaged skin
• Non-responsive skin after a facelift
• Enlarged oil glands on the nose
• Birthmarks
• Yellowish or grayish skin tones

How do laser treatments remove tattoos?

Lasers break up the ink in the skin, allowing the body’s immune system to remove it from the body. Tattoo removal may require multiple sessions spread out by a month between each session, from 2-12, depending on whether an amateur or professional tattoo artist applied the tattoo.

Can laser skin care remove spider veins?

Laser surgery is a noninvasive method of spider vein removal. Intense bursts of light are sent into the vein without the use of incisions or needles. For several months after laser spider vein treatments, the spider vein will fade and disappear although new spider veins could develop in the treated areas.

How does laser hair removal work?

High-heat lasers heat and damage hair follicles to prevent new hair from growing in the treatment areas. Removing unwanted hair usually requires between two and six treatments.

Is laser hair removal permanent?

Lasers destroy hair follicles, and the production of hair is temporarily disabled. The hair is removed for several months, much longer-lasting than with shaving or waxing, but eventually, the hair will grow back. When hair grows back after laser hair removal treatments, it is lighter, finer, and fewer in number.

Learn more about your options for reducing the signs of aging, eliminating skin imperfections and unwanted body hair through laser skin care by calling the Bedford office or using the online booking tool. Angie tailors treatment plans for your health and aesthetic goals.