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BC laser and skincare and today we're gonna talk about the color red. Red is a
great color but on the face sometimes it can be bothersome so people can have red
blood vessels generalized redness rosacea and it can be quite bothersome
and somebody like Halina here, who has kindly volunteered, has beautiful skin
but she does have a little bit of red on the chin and around the nose and a
little bit on the cheeks and she wants to get rid of it because she wants to be
able to have the choice not to wear makeup. At the moment she wears makeup
all the time and she loves wearing it but there are times when she wants to be
makeup free so we're going to do redness treatment with the Excel V laser. The ExcelV
laser is excellent for redness. It gets rid of red vessels, it
gets rid of generalized diffuse redness.
It works quite well for that
what I would like to do is,
is do a treatment with the ExcelV today and you can see there is some redness around
the nose around the cheeks around the chin and this laser does treatments with
a couple of other
wavelengths as well but we're just going to use the 532 nanometer wavelength, but
this laser has multiple other treatments it can do as well. How many
treatments will she need Dr. Shah do you figure for somebody with this?
She'll need anywhere from three to five treatments and usually with the change
in seasons she may need a touch-up on a regular basis because you can't
completely get rid of the redness and so this has to be treated on a yearly basis
as a touch-up so it will need regular treatments.
So here we are starting now this device. Does have cooling in it right Dr.
Shah also has more comfortable? It has lots of cooling in it and we're actually
just cooling her a little bit before we fire the laser and now we're gonna fire
the laser .
So what's the downtime for a treatment like this Dr Shah. There is actually
no downtime, she may experience a little bit of swelling for about three to four
days and usually its worst I find on the first day of the day after the treatment and
that seems to be the problem. Is there anything she can take? Yes you can take
an antihistamine or medication but I sort of tend to assess it on a
person-by-person basis and I tend to make that assessment depending on the
person's lifestyle. How are we doing Halina? Great. How is the pain level? Its not much at all really..... And you can see the area that
I've treated already. And how often would you do these treatments Dr Shah? For the generalized redness I tend to do them every four
weeks but for more specific vessels we can do them as quick as every two weeks.
We tend to get aggressive on the first couple of treatments and then
Dr Shah someone would like to know what other benefits this laser has. Yes you can treat active acne, you can treat
brown spots, you can treat some birthmarks, red birthmarks which we use
this for port wine stains, we use this, for quite a few people come in for that.
Skin tightening , yes we do laser Genesis with this or skin tightening especially a
more non-invasive way of skin tightening. Even though this laser can do quite
a few different treatments we're lucky here in BC laser because we have a
choice of many different lasers that we can use 12 different modalities so
therefore we can pick and choose and customize and tailor the treatment to
the individual. So if somebody were to come in with the brown mark I would
probably
find out exactly what the skin type is and and figure out what the mark is,
before I would just use any treatment. Some clinics are able to use one
laser so they have to try and make do with that but we are lucky in that we
have quite a few choices.
So is this good for all skin types. yes it's for all it's for all skin types
for redness and it's just a matter of figuring out exactly the setting and
tailoring it to the person.
Does this work for dark spots on the face ? Yes it does work for dark spots on
the face it really depends on the person and as I said before we are able to pick
and choose the laser that we could use so therefore I may use this one or I may
use a couple of other different modalities . Why would you use this
versus IPL. IPL is a machine which I personally don't like using I don't use
in this office I find that some people especially with
slightly darker skin tend to get there's a higher risk of hyperpigmentation and
so therefore I have chosen not to offer it. Perfect
We have a big thumbs up from Halina there
Now Halina here uses really good home care and skincare so this is a would
this be like the seasonal treatment for her? Yeah for Halina she has got an
amazing homecare routine so she's very good. You have to combine a treat like this
with a home care routine you can't just do the treatment and expect
it to work. We combine this treatment with multiple other modalities we use
chemical peels, we use resurfacing lasers, we use home care so we are our experts
of doing combination treatments here and so that's how we get the excellent
results. Dr Shah we have yoga girl thats saying
that she had red veins off her face with a machine called it the Yag.
Yes. She wants to know if this the same? No there is a YAG modality available on
this machine but the machine the wavelength that I'm using is a called the KTP 532
which I find is much better for redness.
So how soon will the redness on Halina's face disappear ? She'll need
multiple treatments but she'll notice a result even after the first
treatment. She'll notice a little bit of swelling for the next 3-4 days and then
she will settle down but you'll be able to put makeup on straight after this
treatment and she will be able to get back to her activities very quickly. And
for those watching we will post photos post makeup right on Instagram, right
after so you can see what she looks like when she goes out of here, and don't
forget we'll be posting this video on YouTube
and Instagram stories as well yes and There's going to be a fun video posted
showing a close-up how quickly red veins go away.
yogagirl wants to know is this capable for shrinking your pores. Yes it is it's
capable for shrinking the pores and what I tend to do is I combine if there's
some redness I combined that 532 KTP with the 1064 on this for shrinking the
pores and it works quite well but I also individualize the treatment so I try and
see what the underlying problem is and so I might use different lasers as well
and that's the beauty of we need to have such a large choice in this.
she says thank you!
Now is this also good for rosacea? Yes this is great for rosacea in fact a lot
of people come in for rosacea they have also underlying
red vessels that are pretty prominent and so this takes care of it
I don't know if you can see but there are a couple of red vessels here
on the nose here and I'm going to treat those.
Yoga girls asking what the price is for treatment but we
suggest coming in for a consultation! Yes everyone's,
everyone's requirements are different.
Breathe through your mouth....
A little jump there from the shock of the nostril
Now Halina had really prepped her skin with home care. How important is home
care? It is very important because we want to get rid of some of that
inflammation, we want to protect the skin against the Sun and we dont want any
side effects of using the laser on somebodies skin , we dont want any hyperpigmentation..
In fact if you can see closely she's responding so well to the red vessels
on the nostril and you can actually see those disappearing .
So she pre-prepped and post prep with skincare. Absolutely she did. Now what we do now
is Halina, we finish the treatment of Halina but that's not the end of the
story after this what we do is we have Finishing Touch protocol to calm the
skin right down.
Kaitlin will take care of that and after that she can actually, she can go
right back to work. Absolutely she goes right back to work
Finishing touch protocol will calm skin right now so she
you can see it's a little bit red at the moment that will come right down.
Any other questions coming up. No more questions coming up but how can they get
in touch with us? If they want to yes you can get in touch with us at 604 580 2464
info at BC laser dot CA, or our website
BC laser dot CA, Instagram account. Send in your questions and anyone that has
further questions and if you have other topics that you'd like to see us cover
let us know and thanks for everyone joining us today
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