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What to know about age spots?
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Age spots is a skin disease resulting from years of exposure to the sun's rays. Many older
people have some age spots. Over time,
these small, age spots may grow and multiply forming large, unsightly areas on
the skin. Left untreated, they could lead to even more serious problems.
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What is Laser Age Spot Treatment?
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Laser age spot treatment has low risk of scarring, is not painful, and has a short recovery time.
Our physicians are trained in laser age spot treatment, and we use cutting edge techology to
treat the age spots correctly.
Our lasers act in a similar fashion to a guided missile. The light from the laser has a selective
affinity for brown discoloration in the skin. It passes harmlessly through the top layer of skin, and
when it hits the brown pigment cells, energy is released causing the melanosomes in the cell to break
into minuscule particles which are removed by the body's immune system.
Each pulse of laser light feels like the snap of an elastic band on the skin. The age spot turns grey
initially them within minutes forms a superficial brown curst. Within 2 weeks the crusts will be
sloughed and the skin underneath will be pink. This gradually fades to the color of the surrounding
skin over the course of 2 to 3 weeks. It takes less time for age spots to turn over on the face than
on the back of the hands. The crust must not be picked or rubbed off otherwise a scar will results.
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