Intensed Pulsed Light (IPL) Treatment

With my Candela IPL, I want to maximize skin care to minimize the effects of photo-aging and sun damage. IPL has become the GOLD STANDARD for sun damage. IPL is a non-invasive skin restoration treatment that erases the damage inflicted on your skin from sun, aging and rosacea. The technlogy supplies a broad spectrum of light which reaches deep down within the skin, targeting pigment and vascular imperfections. The goals of therapy are a more even skin color and texture. After a treatment, one can expect slight redness to the treated areas, which disappears within a few hours. The IPL corrects a variety of skin conditions such as brown spots and redness of the face, while offering a safe, non-invasive solution that can be tailored to your individual condition and skin type. The IPL can treat the imperfections on the face as well as the neck, chest and hands. The IPL is one of the most common technologies used to treat rosacea. After a series of treatments this technology can significantly reduce the redness and visible blood vessels on the face. IPL treatments are performed without downtime. After a series of IPL treatments, patients report improvement in the texture of their skin and reduced pore size. With a series of treatments, IPL can help restore your skin to a more youthful appearance without the prolonged recovery. What can Intense Pulsed Light Therapy treat? IPL treats a variety of conditions on the face, neck, chest and hands, including:	Before
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• Only physicians perform the IPL treatments. The procedure takes 20-30 minutes and is well tolerated. During the treatment, light energy is delivered to the skin through a series of pulses.

• The number of treatments required depends on several factors including skin tone and the extent of pigmented and vascular lesions and the degree of sun damage that exists. Typically a minimum of three treatments (range 3-5) are performed at monthly intervals for optimal results.
• After your initial series of treatments, it is possible to require a follow-up treatment in two or more years. Patients with rosacea may require regular maintenance treatments, frequency depends on the severity of the condition.

• Recovery with the IPL is minimal. Your face may be mildly red for several hours after the procedure but this will subside. Pigmented areas on your skin will become darker initially, and then flake off over the following week. This may last 6 day but can last 2 weeks.
• You should be able to resume all of your regular activities immediately. By dividing the full program into several treatments, the procedure provides progressive improvement with very low risk.
• You will need to avoid the sun as much as possible before and after the treatment, and no treatment should be provided if you are tan. Sunscreen with a minimum of SPF 40 should be utilized daily, at all times of the year.

Disclaimer:
IPL is not perfect. One treatment will not give you an "extreme makeover." This does not remove deep wrinkle lines. I think that the IPL will change the damaging effects from sun damage.