Age and Vascular Spots
Age spots are a result of the body producing excess melanin. Melanin is the pigment that gives skin its color.
When the skin is exposed to sunlight, the body produces extra melanin to protect the skin from the sun's ultraviolet (UV) rays.The more melanin produced, the darker the skin becomes. Age spots appear when excess melanin in the skin becomes clumped together.
Age spots can be addressed with topical products, red light therapy in combination with GlycoALA or Intense Pulsed Light Therapy (IPL).
IPL systems work on the same principles as lasers in that light energy is absorbed into particular target cells with color (chromophores) in the skin. The light energy is converted to heat energy, which causes damage to the specific target area.
IPL systems are different from lasers in that they deliver many wavelengths (or colors) in each pulse of light instead of just one wavelength. Most IPL systems use filters to refine the energy output for the treatment of certain areas. This enhances penetration without using excessive energy levels and enables the targeting of specific chromophores (the skin components that absorb light).
IPL therapy is considered a non-ablative resurfacing technique, which means that it targets the lower layers of skin (dermis) without affecting the top layers of skin (epidermis). The advantage of IPL therapy is its minimal downtime – a patient can often have the procedure done in their lunch break and return to work immediately afterwards.
At The Med Spa we utilize Lumecca for IPL. Lumecca is a breakthrough intense pulsed light (IPL) that delivers up to 3X more energy to improve efficacy for both small red vascular and pigmented lesions. We possess two separate delivery devices with different wavelengths that address more skin tones.
Lumecca is one of the only IPL machines engineered to address Asian, latino and darker skin. Additionally, Lumecca is optimized to treat a variety of lesions with fewer sessions and it possesses a large sapphire at its tip which results in cooling of the treatment area and minimized discomfort.
Lumecca can reduce vascular lesions, including port wine stains, facial, truncal and leg telangiectasias, rosacea, erythema of rosacea, angiomas and spider angiomas, poikilodenna of Civatte, superficial leg veins and venous malformations.
Fat-Reduction (Body Contouring)
Body contouring with the reduction of adipose tissue (or fat) can be accomplished using the latest technology available at The Med Spa at Vision Dermatology.
The Morpheus8 machine provides microneedling with Radiofrequency (RF). It is the only full-body fractional aesthetic device for subdermal adipose remodeling.
Morpheus8 arises from two aesthetic techniques, surpassing them both. Its microneedles penetrate deeply, to the subdermal fat under the superficial skin layers. It directs electromagnetic energy to these regions, causing fat coagulation.
Morpheus8 produces a “shrink wrap” effect on the skin. More than just tightening, the treatments produce fat-reduction that can be observed virtually anywhere on the body.
Morpheus8Body became available in the US in 2021 and further increased the tools we can employ to treat adipose, laxity and cellulite.
The new Morpheus8Body allows for Radiofrequency Micro-needling at a depth of up to 7mm (twice what was previously possible) while providing the “blast option” to cycle quickly through multiple depths with varying levels of power.
The end result is that fat ablation is possible at the depth of the adipose tissue below the dermis but the ability to target and tighten the dermis at more superficial depths affords for tightening with the fat reduction.
In other words, the patient isn’t left wanting the fat to be put back in due to the crepe-ing and extreme laxity that can result with loss of fat.
Unlike Cool-sculpting which freezes cells to death and may have the rare paradoxical side effect of making your body think its freezing in the arctic and thus stimulates fat production, Morpheus Body destroys fat cells via radio frequency and heat by targeting sub-dermal layers of adipose and address laxity that can result with volume loss by targeting the more superficial dermal layers as well.