I have flesh coloured tattoos to help disguise white scars on my face. I also have tattooed eyebrows and lips. How will PDT with Metvix affect the tattoos?
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Photodynamic therapy with the blue light is not the best treatment for rosacea, and can make it worse. PDT is for actinic keratoses which are precancerous lesions that have nothing to do with rosacea. Most patients are pretty red after PDT and that's probably not the look you...
It usually takes 1-3 treatments and recent data suggests more than 80% respond to treatment with significant improvement. We usually recommend treatments every 2-4 weeks.
Impossible for us to comment without photos. Some areas of solar damage maybe concentrated in areas, whilst skip areas can occur. PDT then activates the ALA or the active chemical that was placed in the treated area. Bottom line, we do not know the clinical indication, nor the lesion or field ...