Ipl uses short blasts of a polychromatic high intensity light to penetrate just below the skin s surface damaging the melanin that makes up age spots or the blood vessels that create broken capillaries.
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Do ipl photofacial treatments cause side effects.
How well ipl works can depend on what you want the treatment to fix.
However a laser focuses just one wavelength of light at your skin while ipl releases light of many different wavelengths like a photo flash.
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Continued effectiveness of ipl treatment.
Ipl is similar to a laser treatment.
The treated skin is typically a little swollen red and sensitive after an intense pulsed light treatment.
Sometimes bruising infection changes in skin color or blistering occur.
The skin is especially sensitive as it heals and re damaging the skin is possible during this time.
If possible do not apply makeup immediately after the treatment.
This also goes by the names photofacial bbl broad band light and other terms.
Your skin may remain sensitive for a few days after the procedure.
Avoid unprotected sun exposure for at least 30 days after your ipl photofacial session.
The treatment is most effective on light skin and it will usually take 4 6 treatments to achieve maximum results.
Other uses include reducing the appearance of scars lightening.
The skin repairs the damage leaving you with an evener skin tone.
First it sounds like you were getting a photorejuvenation treatment with an ipl intense pulsed light.
This is not a true laser treatment one wavelength but instead a laser cousin.
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After just one ipl treatment patients start seeing an improvement in skin texture and tone.
After one to three treatments light therapy can get rid of 50 75 of.
I m having my first ipl treatment in a few days and i m getting a bit nervous.
What not to do after a photofacial treatment.
The redness and swelling usually go away within one or two days.