Can sclerotherapy or lasers be used on all skin types?
There are four categories of veins which are of interest in an examination by a sclerotherapist: deep veins, superficial veins, perforator veins, and spider veins. The deep veins are buried beneath skin, muscle, and bone and cannot be seen except during surgery. The superficial veins are the ones you can see just under the skin. The perforator veins connect the two systems. Reticular veins are incompetent superficial veins. Varicose veins are superficial veins which are not only incompetent, but are swollen, elongated (and thus serpentine) as a result. The most fundamental problems must be fixed first and these are, in order: incompetent deep veins, incompetent perforator veins, incompetent superficial veins (reticular and varicose veins), and finally the spider veins. What you need to do before the procedure Prior to sclerotherapy, certain medications should be avoided. Tetracycline or Minocin, both antibiotics, may possibly cause a staining of the skin if taken 7 to 10 days before or
