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Lasers and light therapy for acne vulgaris.
Recently there has been an emergence of novel laser and light sources as a means for treating acne vulgaris.
Over the last two decades lasers and light based therapies have been developed to treat a wide variety of cutaneous maladies.
Regarding management of inflammatory acne using light based and laser treatments.
Evidence for the utilization of laser and light based therapy for acne was summarized in a comprehensive review.
The first clinical trial evaluated 41 individuals and showed the effectiveness of a low fluence pulsed dye laser pdl in the treatment of inflammatory acne vulgaris lesions.
Pdt therapy shows great promise in helping to treat severe acne.
Yellow light pulsed dye lasers 585 595nm can also be used by clinicians to treat inflammatory acne vulgaris.
The solution must sit on the skin for a while between 15 minutes and 3 hours.
During pdt a solution that makes the skin more sensitive to light is applied to acne prone skin.
This article will review the advances of laser and light sources in the treatment of acne vulgaris.
Keywords acne vulgaris acne scarring 1450 nm diode laser 585 and 595 nm pulsed dye lasers pdls near infrared diode lasers 1320 nm nd yag laser 532 nm potassium titanyl phosphate laser 1064 nm long pulsed nd yag laser 1540 nm erbium er glass laser 1550 nm er glass fractional laser.
Next a dermatologist uses a laser or light device to treat the skin.
Laser and light based treatment holds the advantages of improved patient compliance and safety profiles in comparison.
There are various treatment modalities for acne vulgaris including topical and oral therapy as well as microdermabrasion and chemical peels.
Use of lasers and light based therapies for treatment of acne vulgaris.
1 department of dermatology yale school of medicine new haven connecticut usa.