What's the Best Way to Reduce Scarring from Spider Vein Removal Around Nose?

asked 1 year ago by Miami1379 in Miami, FL
Latest answer by Vivek Bansal, MD
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Tags: nose, best, removal, scar, spider veins

I had a spider vein removal around my nose and it left me with the veins plus scars around the nose. What can I do to reduce them? Is there a laser free way of reducing them? I am afraid of further damage.

7 answers to What's the Best Way to Reduce Scarring from Spider Vein Removal Around Nose?

Vein Treatment

I still like laser for vein removal on the nose. I have treated hundreds, maybe thousands, and have not seen 1 scar. I think the choice of laser or the energy may not have been dialed in properly. I like the 532nm KTP laser, the VBEAM, and 1064 yag, an even IPL.

Vivek Bansal, MD
Danville Plastic Surgeon

Treating scars and vessels around the nose

Greetings to you in Miami~ It's difficult to say what the ideal treatment would be without seeing exactly what is going on on your nose. Laser treatment is a great way to treat vessels on the nose and can yield excellent results...but know that even in the best cases the small veins around the nose do come back. This is treatment, NOT cure. If you have indentations on the nose from previous treatment or large pores you may consider a peel like Trichloroacetic Acid... more

Grant Stevens, MD
Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon

How to Remove Veins on the Nose?

Hi Miami. We would recommend lasers as the best way to treat these veins. Even though you have had a bad experience, the proper laser in the proper hands is going to give you the best result. As Dr. Crippen points out and we concur, the 532 (KTP), 595 (Pulsed dye) or 1064 (Nd:Yg) lasers are the best for your situation. We would not use, nor do we recommend IPL for this treatment. It is an inferior technology and is the reason for many burns for this... more

Harold J. Kaplan, MD
Los Angeles Facial Plastic Surgeon

Spider veins around nose

VeinWave is the best way. Hands down. Great results. No staining. One Treatment.

Timothy Mountcastle, MD
Ashburn General Surgeon

www.MountcastlePlasticSurgery.com

Veins on the nose

I believe that IPL is a good way to eliminate or greatly decrease the appearance of these vissible vessles on the nose. Scarring is highly unliky.

Victoria Karlinsky, MD
Manhattan General Surgeon

Veins around nose are difficult (but not impossible) to treat.

Unlike other tiny facial vessels, those on the side of the nose (the nasal ala) are high-flow (arteriolar) in nature. Most other facial vessels are tiny veins (low-flow) that are easily treated by laser. Other techniques can be used on these as well (such as IPL--intense pulsed light, or PDL--pulsed dye laser), but when treating only a few tiny vessels I prefer the KTP laser. For the ones you are asking about, even the KTP laser will shrink or scar the overlying skin and may not... more

Richard H. Tholen, MD, FACS
Minneapolis Plastic Surgeon

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