Does sclerotherapy work on tiny facial capillaries?

First ,a vessel must be large enough in which to insert a needle.  The largest practical needle is  32 guage which is too large to fit in most facial vessles.  There are many different lasers for facial vessles and most physicians use the one they own.  In my experience the most useful... more

While very careful sclerotherapy can work, I feel I have more control with the laser. I can watch the vessel "disappear" (go into spasm) as I am treating it. A few treatments are generally  necessary for complete clearance and the vessels along the side of the nose often recur in time.

 As Dr. Oppenheim has siad, I have also had success with stubborn facial capillaries using a Colorado needle point on a cautery set extremely low and just zapping them under 3.5X magnification.

Sclerotherapy can help stubborn facial capillaries, especially the blue ones that require higher energies with laser and the risk of indented scars. The doctor must be a good aim, as you do not want the sclerosant in your skin. Good luck.

  I realize this is a very old time, old tech solution to this problem but I have seen very good results with electrocautery. It is far less expensive besides. One advantage of electrocautery is  that it does not cause the matting of laser of sclerotherapy. That is the production of smaller... more