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... more
VBeam vs. IPL - Which is better?
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?
3 answers to “VBeam vs. IPL - Which is better?”
A: 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... more
A: 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... more
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12 Apr 2009
A few days after my second V-beam treatment the broken blood vessels around my nose appeared to responded well. 2 weeks later a new broken blood vessel appeared just under my nostril, this time worse. I feel like I have wasted $1000 so far with no results.