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Advanced Art of Cosmetic Surgery Thomas M. DeWire, Sr., MD, FACS Specializing in Cosmetic Plastic Surgery |
PhotoDerm PL Pigmented Lesion Removal |
| PhotoDerm PL Pigmented Lesion Removal: | ||
| The PhotoDerm PL mode of the MultiLight System allows the removal of all most varieties of benign pigmented lesions including Age Spots, freckles, flat brown birthmarks, and similar lesions. This technology takes advantage of Intense Pulsed Light, and the ability to computer-manipulate the wavelengths emitted, to specifically target melanin, the | brown
pigment in most of these lesions.
This amazing technology will heat the melanin, destroying
it, while sparing the surrounding normal skin.
Selected cases are shown below, and more will follow shortly. All it takes is a flash of light ! |
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| Case 1: A 63 year old man with many Pigmented Age Spots on both hands |  |
Photos before and after a single treatment with the PhotoDerm PL mode demonstrate almost complete clearing of these lesions. Post-op photo is at 3 weeks. It is important to avoid tanning before such treatment to allow the Intense Pulsed Light to focus on the melanin in the lesions while sparing the melanin in the skin. |
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| Case 2: A 40 year old with some brown Age Spots of the left hand. The lesions were treated with a single flash of PhotoDerm PL mode Intense Pulsed Light . |  |
Photos before and after treatment of the pigmented Age Spots of the left hand (circle) with PhotoDerm PL. A single treatment should take care of this lesion. The redness seen in the post-treatment photo at 2 weeks will fade rapidly and disappear. |
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| Case 3: A 20 year old who was treated for hair removal of the upper lip also had treatment of the small freckle (right side of photo) with the PhotoDerm MultiLight in EpiLight mode. Because the EpiLight also targets melanin in the skin as well as the melanin in the hair follicles, the brown freckle is obliterated as well as the hair (see Photoderm HR link below). |  |
Before and after photos of a brown freckle of the upper lip shown at 12 days after treatment with PhotoDerm HR EpiLight mode. |
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