BroadBand Light (BBL™) Photorejuvenation
for the treatment of sun damaged skin, age spots and redness
Broadband Light (BBL™) technology utilizes the power of pulsed light to improve a variety of skin conditions. Light of various wavelengths is preferentially absorbed by the target (unwanted blue, brown, red, purple pigment) and converted to heat. This preferential heating enables dramatic improvement of pigment disturbances (e.g. dyschromia, hyperpigmentation, melasma), sun damage and vascular lesions (e.g. port wine stains, hemangiomas, rosacea, angiomas, telangiectasia).
With BBL™ technology different wavelengths of light are selected by using interchangeable filters that are recognized by the smart control system. Available filters include:
420 nm – visible blue light used to activate Levulan? during photodynamic therapy (see Levulan? Photodynamic Therapy section)
515 nm – visible yellow light used to target brown-black pigment (solar lentigenes or sun spots, hyperpigmentation, etc)
560 nm – visible yellow-green light used to target surface redness and vascular lesions
590 nm – visible green-orange light used to target deeper vascular lesions
640 nm – visible orange light used for reduction of unwanted hair
695 nm – visible orange-red light used for reduction of unwanted hair
800 - 1400 nm – infrared (invisible) light used to gently heat collagen in the deeper skin layers (see SkinTyte™ Skin Tightening section)
The system also incorporates the most powerful cooling technology available (integrated quad thermo-electric cooled sapphire crystal) to ensure that the treatment areas safe and cool; the system cools the skin before, during and after (pre-, parallel and post-cooling) each pulse of broadband light.
The most common treatment areas include the face, neck, hands, chest, shoulders and extremities - areas that are typically most exposed to the damaging effects of the sun. While a series of treatments are typically required for optimum results dramatic improvement is possible with a single treatment.
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Sarasota Melasma Treatment
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