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male 89years old had the blue light at least 8 to 10 years

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Will the Levulan treatment dissolve the filler or should I wait to have it done after the photodynamic treatment?

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Monika Kiripolsky, MD

Hi Pioneering, PDT has absolutely no effect on your fillers. Fillers are injected deeper into the skin, so you can even do them on the same day as PDT without any worries of compromising either treatment. Hope this helps! Dr. Monika Kiripolsky

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Would photodynamic light therapy help to treat my bumps and sebaceous hyperplasia? (Photo)

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Nelson Lee Novick, MD

Without a biopsy, papular acne scars, milia, and sebaceous hyperplasia would have been in the list of possible diagnoses. However, in this case I really am puzzled, since a biopsy was taken and proved to be sebaceous hyperplasia. If you are still in doubt, however, a second or even a third...

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Hypopigmentation after TCA Peel. Can phototherapy help with repigmentation?

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Nelson Lee Novick, MD

It is difficult to say for certain, but TCA, especially when applied in higher concentrations is well known for causing permanent loss of pigmentation. I personally have achieved gratifying results in repigmentation using professional microneedling accompanied by the application of pigment...

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I am having a PDT and would like to know if this causes skin cancers, bcc to come out of hiding?

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E. Victor Ross, MD

Photodynamic therapy typically would not cause a skin cancer, sometimes other background lesions are eliminated with standard photodynamic therapy, actinic keratoses, for example, and may allow one to see an early basal cell that otherwise would not be observed. But photodynamic therapy...

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Can I do Photodynamic therapy 24 hours after Botox?

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Harold J. Kaplan, MD

Hello, We are not certain if you are referring to Photodynamic Therapy with LED light or Aminolevulinic Acid with PDT for acne. If it's the former, we would suggest waiting a few days post-Botox treatment. If it's the latter, we suggest waiting until you are no longer flaking and red. Take...

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