The V Beam Laser Treats Blood Vessels and Redness

The virtually painless pulsed dye laser has a well documented history of safely and effectively treating vascular lesions for over 15 years. It is designed to deliver an intense but gentle burst of laser light to the skin. The laser light is specifically adsorbed by the blood vessels in the vascular lesion. These vessels are gently heated and coagulated. The body reabsorbs the treated blood vessels during the natural healing process.

The laser has a unique ability to selectively target he blood vessels of a vascular lesion without adversely affecting the surrounding normal tissue. It is so safe and effective that it has been used successfully for the treatment of infants as young as a few weeks old. The skin is protected during the laser treatment by Candela's proprietary Dynamic Cooling Device which sprays a cool liquid onto the skin before each laser pulse, cooling the upper layers of skin and providing patients with increased comfort.

Conditions Treated by Laser

Lasers can be used for many purposes in dermatology such as resurfacing of the skin to remove wrinkle lines and pigmented lesions, smoothing acne scars, and performing surgery such as eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty). There is less swelling, less pain, less bleeding, and more rapid healing than with conventional treatments. Lasers are also used to remove blood vessels, red marks, brown marks, tattoos, the redness of rosacea and for hair removal.

The images below are before and after pictures of various conditions that were treated using the laser.

	Telangectasia or Facial and Nasal Spider Veins
	Port Wine Stains/red birthmarks and strawberry hemangiomas: Red lesions that grow rapidly after birth and may impair the function of another organ.
	Spider Leg Veins: (<1millimeter) The precise origin of the disorder is unknown but they are hereditary and seen mostly in women. They are made worse by pregnancy, hormonal changes, weight gain, leg injury, or prolonged standing.
	Scars: Isolated pinpoint scars, are corrected by microexcision and closure or punch-grafting the area from another location. Other scars are corrected by re-excision. Dermabrasion, peeling, laser or fillers may compliment the final smoothing.
	Poikiloderma: Patchy discoloration of the skin. Best treated by the Vbeam laser followed by IPL (Intense Pulsed Light).
	Angioma
	Warts: Small benign growths in the skin that usually appear on the hands, feet or genitalia
This laser is also used to treat: Stretch Marks - frequently appearing after pregnancy over the stomach, thighs buttocks, breasts, shoulders, and lower back. Stretch marks also develop after major weight loss. Rosacea (red facial lesions) - affecting the skin of the face around the nose and cheeks causing a red blush or sunburn look. Growth removal including skin cancer -The removal of moles, warts, "liver spots", age spots, lipomas, cysts, pre-cancers and skin cancers is accomplished through a variety of methods, including surgical removal, cryosurgery (freezing), lasers, electrosurgery, and applications of chemicals. The cosmetic appearance after removal as well as the prevention of cancer recurrences are carefully considered in treatment. Controlled surgery for skin cancer - In order to take out the smallest amount of skin possible, an incision is made around the tumor after a local injection is given. The pathologist performs frozen sections thus enabling us to know if the lesion is removed completely on the sides and in depth. If this is the case, then we can immediately repair the defect having taken out the smallest amount of skin. If there is any tumor left, we do know which border to take a tiny bit more from. This has proven to be a very successful technique. There is often little or no scarring. The patient remains in our office during the procedure.