A shell, a T-shirt, a novelty mug—whatever souvenir you choose, however silly or sentimental it is, it keeps the summer fun alive. But there’s a sizable difference between a pool noodle and a discolored spot on your cheek. Not all keepsakes are welcome.
At Rodgers Dermatology in Frisco, TX, we specialize in reversing summer skin damage of nearly every stripe. Overexposure to UV radiation can have drastic effects on our skin, from unwanted blemishes to worsened jowls and beyond.
Here’s how one remarkable treatment tackles a whole host of summer skin damage.
Photoaging Signs & Symptoms – A Rodgers Dermatology Guide
While it’s true that we need sunlight to stay healthy, too much of a good thing can have lifelong consequences. Photoaging is premature aging caused by the sun. Its signs and symptoms take many forms.
- Blemishes – Age spots, liver spots, & other blemishes formed when UV light causes skin cells to darken or change color.
- Fine Lines – UV light can damage skin fibers, causing creases where none existed before.
- Wrinkles – Sunlight can quickly turn fine lines into full-blown wrinkles by weakening connective bonds between individual skin cells.
- Loose Skin – Over time, sun exposure can contribute to drastic skin laxity (looseness).
- Redness – For some patients (such as those with rosacea, psoriasis, and other chronic skin concerns), UV exposure can lead to lasting redness and discoloration.
With numerous concerns spanning the full spectrum of sun damage, photoaging can require several unique treatments to reverse. But there’s another treatment on offer at Rodgers Dermatology that can promote total skin rejuvenation in just a single sitting.
Intense Pulsed Light Therapy in Frisco, TX
Also called photofacials or IPL photofacials, intense pulsed light therapy offers comprehensive skin improvement across a wide surface area. By using powerful bursts of healing light, IPL can destroy blemishes, tighten skin, and even improve rosacea redness.
How Intense Pulsed Light Therapy Works
Your skin is already designed by nature to absorb and react to light energy. But too much UV light from our sun can cause skin cells to darken or loosen. What one form of light causes, another form can repair.
IPL photofacials rely on multiple wavelengths of light to target dozens of individual skin concerns in a single treatment. Here’s how it works on summer skin damage.
IPL Therapy for Blemishes
Age spots, liver spots, and other discolorations are little more than clumps of discolored skin cells. Your eyes, hair, and skin get their color from a naturally occurring pigment called melanin. When sunlight hits your skin, melanin responds by darkening. This is how you end up with a tan. But this completely natural response often results in unwanted dark spots on cheeks, noses, chins, ears, and elsewhere.
Thankfully, darker colors absorb light and heat at higher rates than lighter colors. Intense pulse light therapy overloads these dark spots, causing the darker skin cells to scatter permanently. Once disbanded, discolored cells are processed by the body, leaving smoother, evenly colored skin in their place.
IPL Therapy for Fine Lines, Wrinkles, & Loose Skin
Blasting away blemishes is a pretty neat trick, but IPL therapy has another up its sleeve: boosting collagen in the treatment area. IPL wavelengths are powerful enough to go more than just skin deep. And as you may remember from high school science class, light is energy and energy is heat.
Our skin has three distinct layers: the epidermis (outermost layer), the dermis (middle layer), and the hypodermis (lowest layer). By heating up fibers in the middle skin layer, IPL photofacials promote the production of collagen—the most abundant structural protein in the human body.
Once stimulated, this collagen gets to work repairing unhealed damage (including acne scars) and tightening skin. In just one treatment, you can promote total skin health while sharpening your facial contours.
IPL Therapy for Rosacea Redness
Throughout the summer season, there’s plenty of fun to be had, even for those with chronic skin conditions like rosacea. But overexposure to UV light can cause lasting redness or blushing in anyone. Here again, intense pulsed light therapy comes to the rescue.
Rosacea redness and other forms of consistent flushing or blushing may be caused by abnormal blood vessels sitting too near the epidermis. But at that depth, these vessels can be effectively targeted by intense pulsed light.
The same heat that supercharges collagen production also causes smaller blood vessels to collapse near the surface. Over the course of one or several IPL treatments, this effect can drastically reduce redness in the treatment area. IPL treatments can even reduce inflammation in the treatment area, relieving both redness and other rosacea symptoms simultaneously.
Try Intense Pulsed Light Therapy for Yourself at Rodgers Dermatology in Frisco, TX
Among the numerous laser treatments, cosmetic injectables, and topical solutions on the market today, intense pulsed light therapy distinguishes itself as the Swiss Army Knife of skin rejuvenation.
IPL photofacials are also capable of treating birthmarks, stretch marks, scars, spider veins, and even unwanted hair. To learn what IPL therapy can do for you, call Rodgers Dermatology today at (972) 808-5196 or contact us online. Proudly serving the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area since 2006, we have the medical dermatology and cosmetic dermatology solutions you need to stay and look as healthy as possible.
Learn What Intense Pulsed Light Therapy Can Do For You!
Few skin rejuvenation treatments offer as much value for money as intense pulsed light therapy. Tackle numerous skin concerns in a single sitting by scheduling your IPL photofacial today. Don’t take those unwanted summer souvenirs into the holiday season. Blast away blemishes permanently, tighten skin, and flatten out fine lines before they become full-blown wrinkles. Call us today at (972) 808-5196 or contact us online!