Freckles are skin lesions that occur on the face in the form of blotches, or small brown or light brown sesame-like spots. The best areas are the cheeks and the bridge of the nose, but can also spread to the entire face or even the neck, and is one of the most common causes of facial aesthetics. It is one of the most common causes of facial aesthetics. Most of them occur later in life, but some patients are congenital. However, whether congenital or acquired, there is a close relationship with genetic factors.
In other words, patients who suffer from freckles have certain qualities, and those who have such qualities will develop freckles under the action of some external factors (such as sunlight, dry skin, etc.).
How to choose the treatment method conventional treatment method is difficult to remove it completely, if the treatment is too shallow, the lesion cannot be removed, and if you want to achieve the ideal treatment depth, you will definitely leave a scar.
Topical medications are usually ineffective and generally only play a comforting therapeutic role. Some people mistakenly believe that freckles are caused by endocrine disorder, so they use internal medication to treat them, in fact, freckles have nothing to do with endocrine, and regulating endocrine will not play any therapeutic role. Drug dabbing (drug corrosion), chemical peeling (beautifully called peeling in beauty salons), high-frequency electricity and ordinary carbon dioxide laser treatment are more dangerous and very easy to leave scars, and the efficacy is not ideal, so please do not choose these treatment methods.
In contrast, liquid nitrogen cryotherapy is a more satisfactory treatment method, although the efficacy and safety is not satisfactory, but compared with the above-mentioned treatment methods, this treatment method can still be chosen, especially this treatment method is cheap. The most ideal treatment method is high-tech Q-switch laser treatment, which is highly effective and safe, but it is more expensive.
In fact, there are two sure treatment methods for freckles: cryotherapy and high-tech Q-switched laser treatment. Therefore, it is recommended that if you have financial difficulties, you can receive cryotherapy, and if you have better financial situation, you can choose high-tech Q-switched laser as the first method to eliminate your facial freckles.
Of course, photorejuvenation is also a very ideal treatment method. The biggest advantage of photorejuvenation is that it can not only treat freckles, but also make the skin bright and white, and after treatment, it usually does not affect your commute to work, usually you can go to work normally in the afternoon after treatment in the morning.
How does high-tech Q-switch laser treat freckles?
Since the freckle lesions are located inside the epidermis, the conventional treatment can only remove the epidermis first and then eliminate the freckles hidden inside the skin, which means that in order to remove the freckles, the normal epidermis will inevitably be injured, so it is very easy to leave scars after the treatment.
High-tech solid Q-switched laser, which is computer-controlled for treatment, emits laser light that penetrates the skin on the lesion extremely smoothly (just like light penetrates glass) and enters the lesion and treats the pigment in the lesion. The pigment of freckles is completely broken and disintegrated under the powerful laser irradiation during the treatment, and then makes it dissipate by itself, thus getting cured.
Since this laser does not forcibly remove the pigment, but treats it through the skin, there will be no scarring after the treatment. Since it takes some time (usually 1-2 weeks) for the crumbling pigment particles to dissipate on their own after the treatment, you have to wait patiently for a few days for the pigment to dissipate.
How does photorejuvenation treat freckles?
Photorejuvenation, which is actually pulsed intense light treatment, is very similar to the treatment mechanism of the Q-switched laser. The intense light enters the skin and irradiates the pigment particles, and the pigment particles and cells disappear under the powerful light. Her effect is inferior to that of Q-switched laser, but her combined effect is very satisfactory because she still has very many cosmetic effects on the skin.
Will freckles recur after treatment?
I am afraid that your main concern is not the problem of recurrence. Freckles is a disease closely related to heredity, therefore, theoretically speaking, there is a possibility of recurrence after treatment. In fact, all current treatments have the problem of recurrence, however, for most patients with stable freckles, the chance of recurrence is not very high.
In addition, using high-tech Q-switched laser treatment, its high energy, good selectivity of treatment, and very thorough treatment, therefore, compared with other treatment methods, the recurrence rate is very low, and the freckles at the time of recurrence are not very obvious, even if the recurrence can be re-treated, and repeated treatment will not leave scars.
Does high-tech Q-switched laser treatment for freckles have any side effects?
Most of the traditional treatments (such as freezing, drug dabbing, “peeling”, ordinary laser, etc.) do have a lot of side effects, such as scars and pigmentation reactions, and sometimes these reactions are quite serious, because of this, the medical profession has not stopped trying to find a more satisfactory treatment method. The invention and birth of high-tech Q-switched laser is the result of this unremitting effort, which has brought the treatment of freckles into a brand new era.
This laser treatment is very selective, which means that this laser only treats freckles, and there is no or only very little damage to the normal skin, so there are usually no scars after the treatment, and of course there are usually no side effects. However, it is important to know that whether the treatment result is satisfactory or not depends on three aspects: the treating physician, the equipment used and the patient’s own response to the laser treatment.
In other words, even if the same physician uses the same equipment to treat different patients, the results obtained are sometimes not necessarily the same, the majority of patients will obtain very satisfactory results, a small number of patients may have post-treatment pigmentation (medically known as post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation), it does not matter, usually will fade on its own (such as with the use of the physician spot removal cream will fade faster).
Individual patients may not be suitable for treatment (and certainly not for other treatments) because of their own skin type peculiarities and heavy pigmentation reaction after treatment. Therefore, it is recommended that you choose your treatment unit carefully when undergoing treatment to ensure the best results.
Are there any side effects of photorejuvenation for freckles?
In general, if the treating physician has enough experience, photorejuvenation is very safe and there will be no side effects. If there are any side effects, a few patients may have very mild pigmentation after treatment, but this reaction is usually very mild, does not affect daily life and can subside on its own.
However, photorejuvenation is a large spot and large area treatment, and it is not a single wavelength of light, which means that there are other wavelengths of light acting on the skin besides the wavelength of light for treating freckles, so the comprehensive assessment of the patient’s skin and the clinical experience of the doctor are very high! Otherwise, more serious side effects will occur.