IPL (intense pulsed light) technically isn’t a real laser procedure. Unlike lasers, this technique used white light made up of many frequencies (i.e: colors of light); lasers, on the other hand, used only 1 wavelength type of light. This gives IPL an advantage since it can effectively treat multiple skin problems. It cane make your skin appear younger, brighter and more radiant. IPL rejuvenates the skin, all around the body, by painlessly using white light to penetrate into the skin’s dermis.
Once the light enters the skin, it
The main advantage of this technique is that it doesn’t imply any downtime. You do not need any recovery after treatment and will be able to return to your normal activities in around half an hour.
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Patients who are prone to keloids, hyper or hypo pigmentation, have dark-skin or are darkly tanned may not be the ideal candidates for an IPL procedure. An ideal patient for this procedure would be a person with white, decently elastic and non-oily skin. Even so, other types of skin have been treated successfully. Your doctor will be able to determine if this procedure is adequate for your case during your initial consultation.
Your physician will make sure you are comfortable and will apply topical anesthesia if you want it. Intense pulsed light is gentler than most lasers and works for different kinds of treatments. It usually takes around 5 sessions to reach significant improvement. Nonetheless, after each treatment of intense pulsed light, there is little visible healing other than some darkening of the skin or mild redness for a few days to a couple of weeks. These can usually be covered by makeup from the day of treatment. Patients may experience mild discomfort with IPL treatments. Some say it is similar to the snapping of a rubber band. Discomfort during the procedure can be reduced by topical anesthetic cream applied before the session.
One of the big difference that intense pulsed light offers is that the operator controls all aspects of the light pulse, including cutoff wavelength (nm), energy level (Joules/cm2), pulse duration (milliseconds), pulse pattern (single, double, or triple), and delay time between pulses (milliseconds). All this gives the surgeon a precise control of light energy, which in this treatment is used for customization for skin type, procedure progress and other factors.
As with any type of cosmetic surgery, complications are unusual, but they sometimes do happen. However, they are usually minor and can be reduced by precisely following your doctor’s directions before and after the procedure.
Some of the complications (though extremely rare) that may arise with the use of intense pulsed light include blistering, slight bleeding, hypo/hyper pigmentation. Be aware that some patients may experience permanent skin pigmentation changes. Scarring is possible although it too is a rare occurrence.
Make sure to ask your surgeon concerning any risks you might have to face when undertaking intense pulsed light treatments. However, you must keep in mind that our certified group of doctors works full-time to prevent such scenarios from happening, since we value the health of our patients above anything else.
In order to keep the risks at a bare minimum, please make sure that you follow your doctors instructions at all times.
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