Are compression stockings necessary after a sclerotherapy? The veins reappeared a week after the procedure. (Photo)

Depending on the size of the blood vessels, either laser or sclerotherapy can help improve the visibility of the veins. Best, Dr. Karamanoukian 

Spider vein treatment is an issue that does require multiple treatments over a prolonged course of time, but not typically for years. We tell patients it is typical to require 3-5 sessions, each a month apart, to obtain reasonable results. This is highly variable however, depending on the number...

Sclerotherapy, unfortunately, is a process and usually requires several sessions (1-3) to eradicate the veins.  The gold standard for spider vein treatment is sclerotherapy but on those veins that are too small for the injecting needle, other treatments such as ohmic theromlysis, laser or...

All of these technologies and techniques have a role in the treatment of forehead vein - it depends on the size, on the arborization pattern (where if extensive, one may not elect to place many puncture wounds as in sclerotherapy) and certain locations (like around the bridge of the nose) and so...

Using a sclerosing agent such as tetracycline has been tried in the past but the result are variable.   The first treatment of a chronic seroma would be to place a drain.  If this does not treat the problem the seroma capsule may need to be excised surgically. 

As veins are dissolved from sclerotherapy some people will get brown spots. This happens less frequently now that we use much better sclerosing formulas instead of old saline. However, some people do get some spots. Laser Genesis helps tremendously. If you can't find someone with this machine...