Small holes post IPL

IPLs are a great treatment for aging skin, and new publications support the fact that there are some long-term skin benefits of improving your skin over time with continued treatments. We now know that if you have IPL treatments and continued maintenance, that your skin age will actually...

Your skin is going to be very sensitive post IPL and you should be following a good post operative skin regimen.  Try Janmarini Cleanzyme and transformation cream or skinmedica's dermal repair.  I would hold off on any vitamin A or C creams for a week or so since you sound like your...

Our office has many different treatments for the skin and scars depending on the depth of atrophy or hypertrophy. Scars require a combination approach using our HI DEF protocol which uses a combination of lasers, topical scar modulation, and RF treatments to pixelate scars, improve contour,...

Unfortunately, yes, this is common. The reason is that IPL can send blood vessels into spasm and so they contract and disappear only to reappear later. The other issue is that most IPLs have wavelengths in the 600 and up range, and hemoglobin (blood) is only treated effectively in the 500 range....

Alcohol will not effect the efficacy of your IPL treatments. In general, alcohol can make people with rosacea tend to redden and flush, but that is temporary only. "This answer has been solicited without seeing this patient and cannot be held as true medical advice, but only opinion. Seek...

IPL treatments are ideally spaced 3-4 weeks apart for this type of situation. There is no guarantee that the blood vessel is going to clear, but you really need to wait until at least that third week to know for sure what your response is. Often, the provider can see a change in the vessel...