What is IPL? It is a great way to remove unwanted discoloration or dyschromias on the face, chest, hands...anywhere on the body. It is the use of Intense Pulsed Light or a flash lamp to influence the pigment cells in the skin.
How it works is by using a specific wave length of light that targets certain color in the skin. The color we usually are after is brown. Age spots, liver spots, whatever you want to call them, are a problem caused by skin aging and sun damage. They are present on sun exposed parts of the body. The IPL is absorbed by these brown areas that then peel off and are gone. The melanocyte (the pigment cells in the skin) is encouraged to turn off and when the skin is then protected from future sun exposure, they usually stay away.
(melasma or brown spots from the sun)
We like to combine good quality skin care with Obagi products to speed up the effects of IPL and make them longer lasting. The Tretinoin and hydroquinone causes the skin to grow faster and the hydroquinone turns the melanocyte off. The IPL gets rid of the current brown spots and voila your skin begins to look like it did before the sun and baby oil did its damage!!!
Red spots on the skin can be caused from sun damage as well. Also causing the problem are small blood vessels in the skin. To treat these areas the wave length is different but the process is the same. The small blood vessels are injured by the light, closed, and the vessels are broken down by the healing process. The red areas are removed.
Usually, IPL treatments are done in a series of 3-5 treatments. Once problem areas are gone, protection from the sun is the key to long term success.
A treatment consists of about a 20-30 minute application of a numbing compound. We wash that off and the actual treatment takes only a few minutes. Hands can be treated as well and most want the decollatage or chest area treated too.
We use the Cutera XEO system which allows us to use multiple wave lengths or combine wave lengths in a single treatment. At Total Body Surgical we charge $150 per treatment and we have special pricing for packages of multiple treatments which is usually required.
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