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Skin Remodeling is the Key to Scar Removal
Scar Reduction with SRCPs and Hydroxy Acids
Comparing Scar Reduction Methods
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Special Scars: Pigmentation Marks
Laser Treatment of Blood Vessel Pigmentations
More than 10 in 100 babies have some type of vascular birthmark.
These are made up of blood vessels bunched together in the skin. They can be flat or raised, pink, red or bluish discoloration's. Some of these disfiguring disorders of blood vessels are helped by laser treatment.
A Port-Wine Stain is a type of vascular birthmark that is also called nevus flammeus, or capillary hemangioma, but should not be confused with a hemangioma.
Port-wine stains are flat, pink, red or purplish discolorations and are found mostly on the face, neck, arms or legs.
Over time, port-wine stains may become thicker and develop small bumps or ridges.
Laser treatment of port-wine stains is performed on an outpatient basis with several treatments over two month intervals.
About one-fourth of port-wine stains are totally cleared by lasers and seventy percent will look much better.
Hemangiomas include strawberry hemangiomas and cavernous hemangiomas.
The term "hemangioma" is used to describe many types of blood vessel growths.
Strawberry hemangioma is slightly raised, and red because the abnormal blood vessels very close to the surface of the skin.
Cavernous hemangiomas have a blue color because the abnormal vessels are deeper under the skin.
Laser treatments of these conditions have reported to be promising.
Congenital and acquired pigment conditions often respond to laser surgery. Both light brown birthmarks (cafe au lait) and blue facial birthmarks (nevus of ota) usually are removed by laser surgery.
