IPL Nashville

As we age, we all receive sun damage to our skin, especially around our face, neck, chest, and hands. Over time, this begins to manifest itself in a variety of ways, such as brown and red discolorations, fine lines, and other conditions. Intense pulsed light (IPL) photo rejuvenation is an effective and convenient treatment designed to improve damaged skin.

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IPL: The Gold Standard for Skin Rejuvenation

With nearly two decades’ worth of treatments worldwide, IPL has become the gold-standard treatment for a broad range of cosmetic applications. If you’ve become concerned about tiny red blood vessels on the surface of your skin, flushing, or dark spots adding years to your appearance, perhaps it’s time to consider the wonderful benefits of intense pulsed light therapy.

What is IPL Therapy?

IPL therapy is a non-invasive treatment that utilizes photo rejuvenation, a process that successfully reduces the appearance of sun damage, age spots or sun-induced freckles, broken capillaries, and numerous other cosmetic imperfections, including the flushing commonly associated with rosacea and general dyschromia. In a 10-year study by Stanford University, IPL treatments have been shown to activate anti-aging processes within the skin.

Lumecca IPL: Advanced Photo Rejuvenation for Hyperpigmentation

The main reason patients come into the office is to seek treatment for hyperpigmentation, which can be removed through photo rejuvenation.

The Inmode Lumecca IPL is perhaps the best IPL device available, which is why we opt to use it for our treatments. Only the Lumecca has the patented Skintel Meter, designed to read the amount of melanin in a patient’s skin and then adjust the setting to the proper wavelength. This assures our patients are receiving the safest and most effective IPL treatment that no other system can duplicate.

In addition, it offers a multimodality IPL and laser platform for versatility and delivers light across a wide array of wavelengths, enabling us to achieve an overall revitalized result.

How does IPL Therapy Work?

IPL works by delivering a broad spectrum of light wavelengths into the skin, which can be customized to target specific structures, such as pigmented freckles or unwanted blood vessels. This versatility allows treatments to be tailored to each individual’s unique skin type and cosmetic concerns.

IPL: Painless, Affordable Skin Renewal with No Downtime

Perhaps the best parts of the IPL treatments are that they’re virtually pain-free, extremely affordable, and require no recovery or downtime, which are major advantages when comparing them to surgical procedures, ablative treatments, or chemical peels.

Patients have likened the sensation of the pulsed light to a tiny snap of a rubber band. Because of this, anesthetic is rarely needed.

One session shouldn’t take longer than 20 minutes to complete. It’s so quick and convenient that patients can even come in for treatment during their lunch break at work and return to the office without disrupting the day at all.

Our skilled practitioners apply a thin layer of cooling gel to the skin before beginning the pulsed light treatment.

In some cases, patients may experience slight redness in the treated areas, but it should be gone within an hour or two after the procedure is completed.

To maximize the results of the therapy, patients are recommended to come in for multiple sessions spaced out about one month apart.