Photofacials/Acne Treatment/BBL

At Da Vinci Medical Spa Sciton’s broad band light source (BBL) is able to treat the following conditions of the face/hands/neck and chest: fine wrinkles, age spots, small facial veins (telangectasia), rosacea, redness, flushing, solar lentigines (freckles), Café Au Lait maculae, birth marks, brown spots, port wine stains, red spots (haemangioma), enlarged pores, poikiloderma (red neck), burn erythematic and hyper- pigmentation.  As this is non-invasive there is little to no down-time.  Acne can be effectively treated with BBL particularly when coupled with Levulan topical cream to destroy acne-causing bacteria on the skin.

Brown Spots and HyperPigmentation

        

Melasma
Chloasma
Age Spots
Inflammatory Hyper-pigmentation

How do Brown Spots and Age Spots form?
Pigmentation is color in your skin produced by melanin, a natural pigment that also determines eye and hair color. However, if too much melanin is produced in one area, the result is a brown patch on your skin ( brown spot or hyper-pigmentation.)

Treatment with BBL Therapy/Photo Facial:
Light Therapy is a newer alternative to treating hyper-pigmentation. Light treatments (referred to as IPL, Intense Pulsed Light, Photo Facial or Foto Facial or BBL) affect the melanin-producing cells deep within the skin. This painless treatment is not only very effective for those aging, unsightly-looking sunspots on hands, but is excellent for irregular pigmentation on face, neck and chest.

The hand piece is placed on the skin over the brown spots or other pigmentation and a bright flash of light is released. This light is absorbed by the pigmented area, which will darken over the next few hours. The area will look a bit “dirty” or dark for about a week, then the exfoliating melanin will slough off leaving clear fresh new skin.

Broad Band Light Photo Facial



BBL treatments for Hyper-Pigmentation also provide additional benefits to overall skin tone, texture and clarity.