Hyperpigmentation Treatment
Hyperpigmentation can occur in the form of dark spots or patches on the skin. It can make your skin tone look uneven. Hyperpigmentation, sun spots, and age spots are at the heart of melasma. Sun damage is the foremost cause of hyperpigmentation.
Texas Surgical Dermatology, led by board certified dermatologist Dr. Tri H. Nguyen, provides effective and noteworthy laser treatments for improving aged or sun damaged skin to patients in Houston, Katy, Spring, The Woodlands, Texas, and surrounding locations.
Treating Sun Damage with Laser Skin Resurfacing
Laser skin resurfacing is a skin care procedure that involves improving skin appearance and reducing sun damage with the help of lasers. Your doctor may ask you to get nonablative or ablative lasers depending on your unique aesthetic concerns.
Erbium laser is a type of ablative laser that is recommended for hyperpigmentation and other superficial skin concerns. The ablative laser removes the outermost layer of the skin to allow new and healthy skin cells to regenerate.
Procedure Details
Outer layer of the skin is targeted by laser skin resurfacing. The treatment heats the lower lying dermis layers at the same time. These are the steps involved in the procedure:
- The treatment provider will prepare your skin before laser skin resurfacing
- The doctor will apply a topical numbing gel on the targeted area before starting the procedure
- The skin will be cleaned for removing any excess oil, bacteria, and dirt
- The physician will use the selected laser to begin the treatment
- The laser device will be slowly moved around the designated skin area
- The doctor will use wraps for dressing the treatment area at the end of the procedure for protecting the skin
Erbium Laser for Dark Skin Tone
All skin colors don’t react to lasers in the same manner. The Fitzpatrick scale is employed by doctors for estimating the skin’s response to ultraviolet light. There are six basic categories as per the system – 1 is the lightest and 6 contains the most melanin.
You can use any laser type on any skin tone. However, the dermatology treatment provider needs to be mindful. Hyperpigmentation can occur after laser treatments in people with darker skin tones. This means you may end up having dark patches, brown spots, and blotchiness as an unwanted side effect.
However, this doesn’t manes that people with darker skin tones cannot get laser treatments performed. They would need to practice caution and invest time in finding a treatment provider that has adequate experience in using laser on different skin tones, types, and textures. The treatment provider should be able to explain and assess the risks versus value.
Choose the Right Dermatologist for Laser Treatments
Many people erroneously believe that laser skin resurfacing provides needed results in light skin types. It is true that there is higher risk of cell discoloration and damage in people with darker skin. However, when performed by the right dermatologist laser treatments can provide effective and safe results in Asian, African American, and Hispanic skin tones. Erbium lasers are considered to be an astute and suitable option with a lower risk of discoloration.
Board certified dermatologist Dr. Tri H. Nguyen receives patients from Houston, Katy, Spring, The Woodlands, Texas, and nearby areas for laser skin resurfacing to improve hyperpigmentation and aged skin.
For More Information contact our Board Certified in Dermatologists at Texas Surgical Dermatology in Spring, TX
For more information on procedures and treatments offered at Texas Surgical Dermatology PA please call 832.663.6566 or click here to contact our dermatologists. Helping patients in Houston, The Woodlands, Spring, Katy and other surrounding areas of Texas.
