Intense Pulsed Light Therapy (IPL) allows for pinpoint accuracy, selectively treating blood vessels without the problems of surrounding tissue damage. This results in reduced side-effects, and excellent results!

It’s nearly impossible to get through life without unsightly veins, blood vessels and other benign vascular lesions. They are a problem for millions of men and women worldwide. In some cases, the issues are primarily cosmetic in nature, and for others, unwanted leg veins sometimes pose a health risk that demands attention.

It’s estimated that over 60% of the population suffers from varicose veins and spider veins. Varicose veins are enlarged blood vessels that have widened due to a weakness in the vein wall or a problem with the valves that control the flow of blood. Spider veins are the small, superficial purple or red veins stretching like a web under the skin. Overexposure to the sun is believed to contribute to the dilation of spider veins, especially those found on the face.

Unsightly veins become more common with age. Until recently, treatment for spider veins was a long and painful process that involved needles and other invasive procedures like sclerotherapy, traditional lasers, and surgery.

New light-based and laser therapies are allowing physicians to successfully treat many types of unsightly veins, simply and non-invasive.

There is one major category of vein treatment we perform at DermaSmooth Med Spa:

• Broken Veins and Capillaries – The face has an extensive network of veins and small blood vessels called capillaries. Aging, trauma, sun exposure and other factors can cause these vessels to become more prominent or to break. The breaks, also called telangiectasias, commonly appear as spider veins or as red streaks or blotches. Sometimes broken capillaries can cause a diffused redness in the skin, called erythema, a source of social embarrassment for many people.

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Intense Pulsed Light Therapy (IPL)

Breakthrough technology provides the DermaSmooth physician with non-invasive, gentle treatments for varicose and spider veins as well as facial blood vessels. Multi-application IPL™ System technology includes a pulsed laser light combined with a broad band of Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) to offer the most effective and long-lasting results for the widest range of benign vascular lesions. With proprietary Multiple Synchronized Pulsing™ capabilities, IPL systems selectively heat and destroy different sized blood vessels at depths below the skin’s surface with excellent results.

Dr. Dale Little is now able to treat complex and interwoven networks of large vessels and webs of small capillaries with pinpoint accuracy, eliminating the unwanted veins and sparing the adjacent healthy ones. By delivering the laser light in highly focused pulses, the IPL computer-controlled system allows the skin and healthy surrounding tissues to cool down, avoiding thermal damage. Pain during treatment and side effects afterward are greatly reduced. Most people can immediately return to their normal routines.

Intense Pulsed Light Therapy (IPL) has many other applications that DermaSmooth employs.