Treatment for age spots on legs?

My legs have large areas with ugly age spots. I am a young 80 (I look like 60), size 8, and very active. What can I do about my legs? Any age spot removal treatments?

1 answer to “Treatment for age spots on legs?”

A: Laser treatments for age spots on the legs

Harold J. Kaplan, MD

Hi Barbie Doll, We remove age spots in this area with a q-switched laser treatments (the Medlite C6 laser to be exact). The reason we believe strongly in q-switched laser treatments vs. other removal techniques like freezing the spots off is that we can permanently remove epidermal (surface)... more

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