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PhotoFacial Rejuvenation using Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) can improve a variety of benign skin conditions such as redness, flushing, brown spots, sun-damage, large pores, and rosacea. It offers a safe, non-invasive solution that can be tailored to your individual condition and skin type, providing impressive results with no down time. This procedure can also be used effectively on the face, neck, chest, arms, shoulders, upper back, and hands.
Avoid applying sunless tanning products for a week prior to treatment. If used, please exfoliate 1 week prior to IPL treatment.
If you have facial hair, please shave the morning of your treatment.
Retin-A, Renova, Hydroquinone and other over the counter retinols must be stopped 5-7 days prior to IPL treatment.
If you have a history of cold sores, prophylactic antiviral therapy may be started prior to IPL. It is important to let us know if you have ever had a cold sore. You will start antiviral therapy 2 days prior to treatment and complete therapy 2 days post treatment for a total of 5 days of therapy.
If swelling occurs, it usually subsides in a few hours and you may apply makeup immediately.
Brown spots will lift up to the surface and may get darker. Don’t pick! They will slough off in approximately 10-14 days and with the help of your follow up exfoliation treatment.
Rarely, some crusting, blistering or bruising may be seen. When this occurs, it tends to heal in 3-7 days. These side effects are uncommon, as this is a “no down-time” treatment.
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