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Treatment for face capillaries, veins and age spots with our state-of-the-art excel V™ laser by CUTERA® can do wonders to create a more even skin tone and give your complexion a youthful and beautiful appearance. This procedure can effectively eliminate neck and face redness and capillaries like telangiectasias, rosacea, and discoloration such as dark “age spots,” which can be difficult to cover up with cosmetics. Excel V can also be used for treating spider veins on your legs.
- What Is the excel V Laser?
- excel V Treatment Areas
- excel V Benefits
- excel V Candidates
- excel V Procedure
- excel V Recovery
- excel V Cost?
What Is the excel V Laser?
The excel V Vascular Laser System is the latest state-of-the-art “gold standard” safe and effective treatment for a variety of blood vessel or vascular skin conditions such as rosacea, facial capillaries, spider veins, age spots, reddish scars, red stretch marks, and cherry angiomas. It can be used to treat any skin type – from very light to very dark.
The excel V uses a non-invasive high-power green laser light, which is absorbed by abnormal blood vessels located just beneath your skin’s surface and age spots on the surface of your skin. Unlike older-style laser treatments which burst the blood vessels causing bruising, the excel V-treated vessels collapse, are sealed shut, and are absorbed by your body. The lack of bruising reduces down time. The laser light heats and removes the age spots and reduces abnormal blood vessels, which cause undesirable red or purple spots on your skin. The excel V laser utilizes a unique cooling system for pain control during the treatment which avoids the need for anesthetic injections or topical anesthesia, maximizing your comfort.
The excel V laser is adjusted to match the specific skin condition being treated. This customization not only provides greater precision, but greater effectiveness also means fewer treatments may be required.
What Conditions Can the excel V Laser Treat?
Vascular Lesions
Vascular lesions are areas of overgrown or enlarged blood vessels. These vary in color from red to purple and range in size from a spot to larger areas of the face and body. Visible purplish veins are commonly seen on the legs and face. Red capillaries called telangiectasias are often seen on the face, base of the nostrils and cheeks and are difficult to cover up with cosmetics. These lesions may be seen at birth or are acquired during your life through overexposure to sun, as a result of hormone or contraceptive use or the natural process of aging. Scars and stretch marks can also have reddish discoloration that can be effectively treated with the excel V laser. Small diameter “spider veins” located on the legs are also effectively treated.
*Individual Results May Vary
Pigmented Lesions
Pigmented lesions are light tan to brown and black areas of skin discoloration on your face and body. These are known as age spots, liver spots, freckles and brown birthmarks. These are seen at birth or acquired through overexposure to sun or the process of aging. Be sure to have these examined by your regular doctor or our board-certified plastic surgeon, Dr. Steven Yarinsky, to be certain that they are not suspicious for melanoma – a form of skin cancer. Benign (not cancerous) pigmented lesions can be effectively treated with the excel V laser.
What Are the Benefits of the excel V Laser Treatment?
- Improvement in redness, reduction or elimination of “age spots” and spider veins located on your hands, arms, legs and/or face.
- Reduction in the redness of scars and purplish discoloration of a bruise.
- You are able to use less face make-up.
- You can show off your legs wearing shorts or a bathing suit.
Who Is a Candidate for excel V Laser Treatment?
- You have small, unsightly purplish or blue spider veins on your legs.
- You have larger bluish veins around your eyes or in your eyelids.
- You have visible blood vessels on your face that are difficult or impossible to cover with cosmetics such as those located at the base or sidewalls of your nose.
- You have brown or darkly pigmented “age spots,” liver spots, freckles or brown birthmarks on your face, arms or legs.
- You are unhappy with dark spots appearing on your aging hands and wrists.
- You have rosacea – generalized reddish discoloration due to prominent capillaries on your face, nose or neck.
- You have reddish scars resulting from injury or surgery or red tinted stretch marks.
- You have bruising after surgical procedures or trauma.
*Individual Results May Vary
What Does the excel V Laser Procedure Involve?
- Our new excel V laser is excellent for treating and minimizing smaller leg spider veins that cannot be treated with sclerotherapy. Face veins and telangiectasias (red capillaries), such as those located around your nose, and brown/red age spots on your body and face are also effectively treated with the excel V.
- The excel V laser is also used to treat vascular conditions that cause redness of the skin. Treatable conditions include red scars, bruises and red stretch marks. The targeted area is treated with the non-invasive laser light, which eliminates the abnormal visible blood vessels by causing them to collapse and be absorbed by your body. With the vessels gone, the treated area returns to the natural color of the surrounding skin.
- The procedures are done at Dr. Yarinsky’s office by a trained nurse. Sedation is not usually required since the procedures are nearly painless. The excel V system provides skin cooling during the laser treatment for comfort. Sometimes an anesthetic cream is applied to the skin before the procedure to help relieve discomfort during the procedure. There is usually no pain after the treatment.
- The treatment sessions generally last 10-30 minutes, but can vary depending on the size of the area being treated. The number of treatment sessions required will also vary, depending on your condition, but many patients see results after only one treatment.
What Can I Expect in the excel V Laser Treatment Recovery?
- After treatment you can expect little or no downtime or disruption to your daily routine and no long-term side effects. Treated age spots often temporarily darken and then flake off within a few weeks revealing pinker skin beneath. *It may take a few weeks to see the final result. Touch-up treatments may be desired to obtain the best possible result.
- Facial capillaries and age spots may be eradicated after a single excel V laser treatment, but touch-ups are not unusual to reach a result “plateau.” *The results are seen within 2-6 weeks after the single treatment. Depending on the condition being treated, additional treatments may be desired to obtain the best result.
- Excel V treatment of face capillaries and age spots rarely cause bruising.
*Individual Results May Vary
How Much Does excel V Laser Treatment Cost?
Cost of excel V laser treatments depends on the size of the area treated and the condition being treated. Talk with Dr. Yarinsky and his nurses in consultation for a list of the fees.
NOTE
The specific risks and the suitability of this procedure for you can be determined only at the time of your consultation with Dr. Yarinsky. All procedures have some degree of risk. Minor complications that do not affect the outcome occur occasionally. Major complications are unusual. *Most people are very happy with the results but no specific result can be guaranteed.
These procedures are done at our Joint Commission-accredited office facility.
If you would like to learn how the excel V laser or another treatment at our med spa can help improve your skin, please contact us today for your consultation with Dr. Yarinsky.
*Individual Results May Vary
