Light based technologies have revolutionized aesthetic procedures and medicine. Lasers are the pinnacle of these technologies. Because of the brightness and intensity but significant improvements in a wide variety of cosmetic conditions that are also afforded by other light sources such as IPL’s (Intense Pulse Light Systems), LED’s (Light Emiting Diodes) and other LLLT (Low Level Light Therapy Modalities), AFT (Advance Fluorescent Technology) the new generation of lasers.

Even though we will find steady evolution of lasers and delivery devices into more user-friendly and ergonomic devices, most of the latest advances in the last couple of years have come from a realization that it’s a combination of different modalities of treatments that are making the most remarkable improvements in skin conditions rather than one particular type of laser treatment alone. The combination of various laser modalities with some skin care and cosmeceuticals can produce results that surpass the sum of their individual parts. For example, skin rejuvenation in patients which sun damage and acne can be pretreated with microdermabrasion to enhance topical drug delivery and surface optics of the skin, then follow with applications of the drug Levulan activated with the light blue light and further treated with pulse dye followed by a consistent regime of the skin care and cosmeceuticals.

Next blog, LASER 201.

Connie B.