Pigmented Lesions: Fast, Simple and Minimally Invasive Treatment
Pigmented lesions are remarkably common and the overwhelming majority of them are benign such as freckles, age spots, birthmarks, moles, certain vascular lesions, ephelides, melasma, seborrheic and actinic keratoses. Laser removal works by destroying the pigment in the skin without the need for excision. This is completed in 3 simple steps:
1st step: Light absorption where the laser produces short nanosecond pulses of intense light that pass harmlessly through the top layers of the skin to be selectively absorbed by the melanin pigment in the lesion.
2nd step: Pigment break-up where the laser light is transformed into photoacoustic waves which mechanically break up the melanin pigment into smaller particles.
3rd step: Pigment removal where the particles are removed by the body’s own immune system as the skin’s macro-phages clear the excess pigment from the area.
