Help for Redness Around Mouth/nose, Small Capallaries, Brown Spots

VBeam or IPL: what is better for slight redness around mouth/nose, small capallaries, a few borwn spots, skin texture? one derm told me that the IPL was "archaic" technology, the other one told me that the IPL machine was still the best...who should I beleive?

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5 Doctor Answers | Asked by pele in Emerald Bay, CA

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Which laser for mutiple conditions?

Part of the issue is that you are trying to address multiple conditions with the same device - slight redness around mouth/nose, small capillaries, a brown spots and skin texture. Lasers are quite specific in that there is a limited target depending on the type of light used. The good news about the IPL is that it uses more then one type of light so (theoretically) has the ability to treat multiple conditions. The bad news is that because it's designed to treat more than one condition,... more

Harold J. Kaplan, MD

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Both are acceptable

Both are acceptable devices for your condition. The IPL will be better for the brown spots and help with reducing redness, while the VBeam is good for vascular issues.

IPL for brown and patchy red. VBeam for specific vascular targets.

Both the VBeam (or other vascular true laser) and IPL devices are excellent when used properly by experienced physicians for appropriate targets. Without seeing you it is hard to say whether the doctors you saw were telling you the right things, but IPL is not an "archaic technology". There are older lasers and older IPL devices, and also newer versions of both, that have advanced both types of technology. Sometimes treatment with both a laser and IPL work synergistically... more

Vbeam best for redness

Both the Vbeam and the IPL are great devices and are both are very popular among my patients. The Vbeam is more the treatment of choice for redness and capillaires. I tend to use the IPL to treat a combination of redness and brown spots. Both devices can help improve skin texture. There does tend to be more swelling after the Vbeam which is a function of the fact that it more directly targets blood vessels. Sometimes I start a patient on IPL for global improvement of sundamage - redness,... more

Both will work well, but V-beam is the gold standard

Thanks for your question. This is a good question as there are differences between IPL and the V-beam laser. IPL is Intense Pulsed Light and emits light energy of different wavelengths while the V-beam is a laser emitting light at only the 595nm wavelength. Both of these will target the hemoglobin in blood/blood vessels, but the 595nm is more specific and tends to work slightly better. All this being said, the IPL is a very versatile machine and does extremely well for blood vessels and... more