Skin pigmentation disorders are associated with increased melanin content in the skin. Melanin is a protein pigment that determines the color of our skin. Normally, it protects the skin from dangerous ultraviolet rays of the sun as a natural filter. However, melanocytes– the skin cells that produce melanin, are sensitive to many factors, primarily hormonal fluctuations, inflammation, medication, injury, hypoxia, and stress. This can lead to increased pigment production. As a result, foci of hyperpigmentation are formed – areas of dark brown skin. Unfortunately, once they appear, they do not disappear over time, like an "ordinary" tan, but persist for a long time, intensifying and increasing in size after each "encounter" with the sun.
About 30% of patients have pigmented spots every year.
Many patients ask the question: how to "erase" age spots and achieve an even skin tone without the risk of cancer and side effects. There are many ways to combat pigmentation, but not all remedies are equally effective and safe.
For example, some peels can "erase" age spots, but they act too aggressively. The skin reacts to them with irritation, dryness, complete loss of pigment, or even, paradoxically, the same hyperpigmentation.
External preparations with a whitening effect work gently, but are often inconvenient to use, since the application of such products requires jewelry precision, and this is difficult to achieve, especially with the localization of pigmentation on the back. Many of our patients have encountered problems using such tools. The fact is that when they get on the skin outside of pigmentation, bleaching agents discolor it, thereby enhancing the "visual" effect – on bleached skin, areas of hyperpigmentation look even brighter.
The most effective and safe method of treating skin hyperpigmentation is photo and laser therapy. The method consists in percutaneous photothermal coagulation of melanin. At the same time, healthy skin remains intact. This technique is safe, and there are no scars or other skin lesions after treatment. Several modern devices are used for therapy. The FRAXEL laser solves the problem of deep, long-lasting skin hyperpigmentation. The IPL device, powered by selective pulsed phototherapy technology, removes pigmentation areas by coagulating expanded microcapillaries in parallel.
The course of treatment is strictly individual, it takes into account the "phototype" of the patient, the duration of the hyperpigmentation and many additional factors.
A pleasant addition to smoothing the skin tone is the rejuvenating effect, the so-called photo-rejuvenation, which is achieved by stimulating cells producing collagen and elastin with infrared rays.
It remains to add that we have accumulated considerable experience in the treatment of skin hyperpigmentation, so our patients are guaranteed a lasting cosmetic result.
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