Are you one of the many people who worshipped the sun when you were young but now wish you had kept in the shade? Have brown blotches appeared on your face and hands? Are there little blood vessels on your face, especially your cheeks? Do you simply have uneven textured skin? All of these problems and many more are mostly due to sun damage.
If you would like to treat this problem but cannot afford to take time off work then Photo-abrasion Facial may be for you.
With Photo-abrasion Facial we are trying to reverse some of those problems and also trying to correct some of the damage to the deeper layers of the skin called the dermis. This is the collagen and elastin layer and it is here that many of the features of aging, sun damaged skin originate.
Photo-abrasion Facial has come out of the observation by many doctors using Lasers and Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) to treat facial blood vessels that after several such treatments patients were noted to have much improved skin texture. The general redness had decreased, the skin was a more uniform colour and the skin generally looked healthier and more youthful.
Further investigation has shown that by using settings that are less intense than a full treatment and varying the parameters of the machine to effect different skin layers, the skin can be rejuvenated. Because the treatments are less intense there is very little immediate change in the skin so this is a ‘walk-in walk-out’ type of treatment.
Depending on the degree of sun damage the number of treatments is usually four to six at two to four weekly intervals. Each treatment takes up to one hour to perform. There is a very mild discomfort during the treatment and the skin may look a little flushed at the end of the treatment. In the first one or two treatments there is a very small possibility of a reddish bruise occurring which fades within a week.
Photo-abrasion Facial offers clients a method of treating their sun damaged skin without the down time associated with deep skin peels or laser resurfacing. It cannot treat severe wrinkling but it can dramatically reduce many of the damaging effects of the sun.
For more information of Photo-abrasion Facial come in and discuss your problem with one of our Doctors, Nurses or Beauty Therapists. 
