Treatment of medium brown solar lentigines using an alexandrite laser designed for hair reduction.
Lentigo solar tratamiento laser.
The use of laser.
Facial treatment of solar lentigines was conducted by carrying out two picosecond laser treatments.
Downtime is minimal and treatment highly effective.
The second laser treatment was conducted 4 weeks after the first treatment.
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Using the picoway laser 532 nm 375 ps only 1 tot 2 treatments are sufficient to clear these lesions.
Cutaneous lasers traditionally used for the treatment of solar lentigines include the frequency doubled q switched nd yag 532 nm laser q switched ruby laser the 510 nm pigmented lesion dye laser and the 532 nm emitting diode laser.
A case is reported of the successful use of q switched ruby laser in the treatment of solar lentigo on the face.
Therefore this therapeutic option is superior to traditional treatment modalities and represents the treatment of choice in the management of solar lentigines.
Each treatment was conducted at 532 nm using a 4 mm zoom handpiece and an energy output of 0 60 joules at 2 hz picoway syneron candela irvine ca usa.
It uses specific wavelengths of light to target damaged cells only unlike the massive damage that a tca treatment can cause your skin.
Solar lentigines are a common feature of the aging skin.