Sometimes treatments just don’t work. You may need to use some of the advanced treatments that are available. Hopefully the information in this article will be helpful if you decide to make an appointment with a specialist. Here are three different types available, along with the results from some of our patients.
This was an earlier treatment available, until it was discovered in studies that it can cause cancer. It was an effective killer of the bacteria that causes acne. The type I’m referring to is UV light. Usage of this type decreased dramatically after it was discovered that it can cause cancer. There are other types available where you don’t have to take that risk. Let’s proceed to those next.
Another type available is blue light, which actually has a blue light which it was named for. This can effectively kill the bacteria that cause acne. But, it has an adverse affect on the oil in the skin, which could give you a moderately dry skin problem. The idea is to lessen the amount of sebum in the skin, which would help eliminate an acne problem.
Blue light has often been more effective on more hard headed kinds of acne (nodules, cysts). In several studies improvements ranged from complete annihilation to about 40% decrease in the number of lesions. While, two thirds improvements ranged from 59% to 67% reduction of inflammatory acne lesions.
Another effective treatment is referred to as Pulsed & LHE. You’re already aware that if you can control the sebum production by the sebaceous glands, this will dramatically reduce the odds of getting acne. In this procedure, the sebaceous glands are actually shrunk, which will lessen the availability of oil produced.
It is FDA approved for mild-moderately severe acne. Both inflammatory and non-inflammatory acne can be reduced by two treatments per week over a period of one month. Drug-based treatments tend to take two or three months or longer. In some cases, though, light treatments are combined with the use of prescription medications.
The laser is another type. It’s so efficient because the beams of light come together at one point. All other light sources will scatter. This concentrates all that power into a precise point. This makes it more exact. That’s why lasers are an excellent choice for acne procedures.
As far as results, one study that was conducted showed where just with one treatment, acne lesions were decreased by nearly 40%. On the next treatment, they were decreased by 60%, and with the third the number rose to over 80%. You may experience some mild pain; a topical anesthetic is used to insure you’re as comfortable as possible.
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