New Answers to Permanent Rejuvenation of Your Skin
Leonard J. Torok, M.D.
Medical Director, Trillium Creek Dermatology
Laser correction at Trillium Creek Dermatology can offer results similar to traditional plastic surgery for many skin conditions without the associated pain, downtime, and expense. Dr. Leonard Torok says, “The technology available today allows patients to get a more natural correction of scarring, wrinkling, and the problems of aging skin more easily than undergoing plastic surgery. These new treatments do not alter your appearance unnaturally.”
Trillium Creek Dermatology uses several lasers, such as intense pulsed light (IPL), to produce the look you want to achieve. Each treatment works differently, depending on the condition being treated.
“IPL is a light-based system where specific colors of light are put into the skin with a short pulse,” Dr. Leonard Torok explains. “Red light is specific to removing abnormal blood vessels, brown light removes brown age spots, while the normal surrounding tissue is unaffected.”
IPL has excellent results with spider veins, enlarged facial veins, rosy cheeks, mild to moderate acne, freckles, age marks, and facial wrinkles.
“IPL has the secondary benefit of shrinking the sebaceous (oil) glands, which decreases the size of pores, as an added aesthetic benefit,” Dr. Leonard Torok says. “For the same reason, it is also a good treatment for controlling mild-to-moderate acne. IPL is combined with extraction of the sebaceous glands for a longer-lasting reduction in acne. The IPL treatments can be combined with topical application that increases the effects of the treatment.”
IPL also reverses sun damage to the skin. Preliminary tests have shown it to be able to remove approximately 70 percent of future-developing skin cancer in those areas treated with IPL.
