Laser Treatment for Veins & Vascular Conditions

This is a really good question and one we get asked all the time about all kinds of cosmetic treatments. It’s fair to say that nothing is permanent in cosmetic medicine because our face and body age regardless of what treatments we have to improve or enhance our appearance. Keeping ourselves looking youthful can be a constant job, we women call it Maintenance! Getting rid of veins, whether big or tiny, or on your face or legs, is a bit like using permanent hair colour to cover up your grey hairs – you may have died one lot of grey hairs permanently but new ones keep popping up – damn it! When we laser veins we actually trace them with the intense but perfectly directed thermal light from the laser point beam, this causes the blockage of blood that has filled the burst looking vein to be liquified. The amazing thing about our Gentle Max Laser is its ability to not damage any surrounding skin in the process – that’s super smart and super safe technology for you! Once the laser has cauterised that section of the burst vein wall and the dead blood cells within in it, our body sends in clean up cells, called macrophages to break down the debris and take it away! Yay for Macrophages! This cleaning up process can take a few weeks to complete, and sometimes we need a second or third treatment over that same site to thoroughly eliminate that section of burst plumbing, so to speak. Once that section of busted vein or capillary are destroyed that’s it – they’re gone! But, like the ‘grey hair’ scenario, sometimes other veins and capillaries fill as our vein walls age or are constantly put under more pressure, from standing or having babies or genetics for example, they become more fragile they can burst in other places. So, although lasering the problem veins is permanent, maintenance for some people can mean a yearly appointment to clean up new ones that may appear. It’s good to note that not everyone needs repeat treatments!