Laser & IPL/BBL Photorejuvenation

Light-based treatment works on the principle of selective photothermolysis — a chosen wavelength is absorbed preferentially by a specific target, heating and destroying it while leaving surrounding tissue largely intact. Brown sun spots absorb one range, the haemoglobin in dilated vessels another, hair pigment another again. This is why one device cannot sensibly do everything, and why an honest assessment precedes any treatment here.

Intense pulsed light and broadband light are not lasers but filtered broad-spectrum light, which makes them well suited to diffuse problems spread across an area — the mottled sun damage on a décolletage, or the background flush of rosacea. True lasers emit a single wavelength and are more precise, which suits discrete targets: an individual vessel, a specific pigmented lesion, or fractional resurfacing of texture and scarring.

We are cautious in two situations, and we will tell you plainly. Melasma is frequently worsened by heat, so treating it with IPL can produce a brief improvement followed by a darker rebound; we usually treat it topically and with gentler modalities instead. And richly pigmented skin carries genuine risk with light-based devices, because the melanin in the skin competes for the energy. For deeper skin tones we select longer wavelengths, treat conservatively, or recommend an entirely different approach.