IPL for Sun Damage on Neck?

Fractional laser is an amazing and highly effective treatment in our office. We use the laser treatment to help with acne scars, large pores, fine wrinkles, tissue collagen loss, scars, sebaceous hyperplasia, active acne, and for brightening dark pigmentation. Although there are very strong fractional lasers such as CO2 laser, we use lighter treatments for corrective skincare and maintenance of results. Our Thulium fractional laser, clear and brilliant laser, and Ultra Thulium laser are excellent options in our clinic. We also perform CO2 fractional and erbium depending on skin tone and tolerance for downtime. Patients do have to use a Melarase cream before and after treatment to help further reduce pigmentation after laser. Dark spots can improve with these treatments. I recommend fractional laser for incisional scars as well, especially after plastic surgery.

Best,
Dr. Karamanoukian
Realself100 Surgeon

IPL (photo facial) works well on redness on the face, neck and chest as well as brown discoloration caused by sun damage. Usually 3-4 treatments are needed. V Beam laser is another good choice for redness.

For mixed red and brown sun damage on the neck, Poikiloderma of Civatte as it's known, IPL is an excellent option.  We frequently treat patients with our Limelight IPL with great results.  Patients are very pleased.  It's important to treat the neck and chest when treating the face so everything blends and matches as well as it can. When patients only concentrate on the face (which is quite common), the rest of the body often doesn't match and starts to looks significantly older than the face from sun damage.  Always remember to do whatever you do on the face on the neck and chest as well (i.e. treatments, sunscreen, creams, moisturizer, etc)