I am a 39 year old white male with red hair and fair skin. I have many tiny red veins v that you can see on close inspection all over my nose. These make it look like I have a red nose all the time, though sometimes it's not as enflamed. I had thermocoagulation done which yielded no results. I am wondering if a Yag treatment will be effective at getting rid of them or if vbeam would be more suitable. A derm told me 1 vbeam would likely do it but I am seeking a 2nd opinion.
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The reason you have some skin discoloration is because cafe au lait spots can only be treated with an alex short beam laser. That particular laser cannot be used on your skin type without causing permanent hyper or hypopigmentation. only a yag laser can be used on your skin type but a yag...
Hello Francolady. If the bluish hue is a product of superficial injections of hyaluronic acid based filler then dissolving it with Hyaluronidase (Hylenex) is a good solution. Have you done this yet? If it's related to a silicon injection, then Hylenex will not work. As an alternative, we...
Q switch lasers are meant for treatments like tattoo removal. THey are very rapid pulse and can be very painful. To answer your question does a laser cause cancer? In and of itself lasers do not cause cancer, but, they should not be used on a patient that has had skin cancer or precancerous...