There are various laser cosmetic treatments available on the skin, mainly to remove lines, lesions, scars, hair, and tattoos. Lasers emit a single wavelength of high-energy light that creates heat to destroy the skin problem. However, different lasers are used for additional skin and cosmetic laser treatments.
Therefore, specialists in laser treatments need lasers with different wavelengths to carry out these other laser procedures.
Fine lines and skin tightening
Fine lines and wrinkles are removed by a combination of skin tightening and resurfacing with a rather aggressive laser. This laser is also effective in eliminating skin spots and warts and laser-assisted surgeries where the laser is used to cut the skin.
It is possible to increase collagen production in the skin by causing a controlled injury to the skin. The heat of the laser increases the production of collagen in the skin to induce skin tightening and healthier-looking skin.
Sunspot treatment and cancer lesion removal
Another of the many laser treatments is to treat sun and age spots and treat freckles, rosacea, enlarged pores, spider veins, and even removing dark circles.
While scalpels have traditionally been used to remove all of these cancerous lesions in the body, today, lasers are used to treat precancerous lesions as a preventative measure.
Lasers are also used to remove vascular lesions like broken blood vessels and veins, and even some birthmarks like spots caused by port wine.
Laser tattoo and hair removal
Laser is also used to remove tattoos on people who now regret having a tattoo and want to get rid of it. In the laser treatment used here, the ink is melted in the skin and body and then removed from the body via its vascular system.
However, it is impossible to remove a tattoo in a single session because tattoo inks are very long-lasting, and different colors require different numbers of sessions to remove the tattoo ink altogether.
Laser treatments can successfully remove unwanted hair from the body. A laser is aimed at each strand of hair to destroy its growth. The actual result of laser treatments will depend on the color of the hair and skin as it is more successful on people with dark hair and light skin. This is mainly because the laser does not affect light skin and is only drawn to the hair’s dark strands.
Based on the acne attack’s severity, different types of lasers are used to treat individual acne attacks. Deeper acne scars require a powerful laser to repair the acne scars and treat active acne by cleaning the skin and clogging clogged skin pores.
So you can see that there are different types of laser treatments used to treat different kinds of skin conditions. It is your cosmetic surgeon who will determine which laser to use to treat your skin condition.
