How does blood vessel treatment differ from laser hair removal?
When it is used for laser hair removal,the laser light selectively targets the pigment in the hair shafts. This heats up the hair follicle, which dies and is reabsorbed by the body. When it is used for laser removal of blood vessels, the Laser target the blood in the vessels which you want to get rid of. The blood heats the blood vessel, which dies off and is reabsorbed by the body. The flow of blood is re-directed away from the surface of the skin, back down beneath the skin where it should have been in the first place. When blood vessels are treated, the laser has a special handpiece which allows us to choose 4 different spot sizes ranging from 2.5mm to 10 mm. The 2.5 mm beam is used for tiny superficial vessels, the 5 mm beam for slightly larger vessels, and the 7.5 mm beam is used for the largest vessels and sometimes for areas where there are many vessels. These delicate small-diameter beams allow us to use higher energies on the unwanted vessels which are close to the surface of
