“IPL for Sunspots”

Hello in Dublin. My experience with IPL is that you will periodically require a "tune up" procedure. A more permanent and very effective solution is the fractionated CO2 laser. The treatment can be applied at relatively high density and low power without significant downtime (albeit more than with IPL).

Can it be used if you scar easily (keloid)?

I have had sun spots successfully treated by a dermatologist with a simple office visit. In my case, the sun spots were seboreic kerotosis. You can google that term. The dermatologist zaps the spot with liquid nitrogen, aka cryo-surgery. This procedure freezes the spot. The spot initially blisters, then dries out and flakes off in 1-2 weeks.

IPL is something that i really dont understand its popularity. It just is a money maker for businesses but with little results. It requires several treatments. It is a light and not a laser. There are several lasers that with one treatment will remove 80% of the spots. this treatment is about 575 per 15 minutes and hands take about 10 minutes for most people. Post care must be done but I am rather astonished that people keep offering IPL when better technology with fantastic cheaper results are out there. One of my clinics was built on the failure of IPL pts and the referrals to a treatment that would actually work with little risk or downtime. Patients should be informed as unfortunately you may find yourself a victim. I expect many IPL fans will be a furious but this is fact and I would be happy to compare one treatment with 6 treatments for an IPL.

Actually, IPL works quite well for the right indications. The benefit of IPL is its efficacy to downtime relationship, which is quite good. A full face IPL treatment in our office runs 400 or so.