What is Blue Light therapy?

How does it work on acne? Blue light helps with acne scars?

1 answer to “What is Blue Light therapy?”

A: BLU-U light therapy more useful when preceded by Levulan, namely Photodynamic Therapy (PDT)

William Ting, MD

The advantage of BLU-U light therapy is attributed to absolutely no downtime. However, BLU-U as a stand alone therapy is mildly helpful for acne and not at all for acne scarring. On the other hand, photodynamic therapy (PDT) which is BLU-U, preceded by Levulan (a metabolite of hemoglobin in red... more

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