Epiderm-Abrasion-Assisted Intensive Pulsed Light and Radiofrequency in Aesthetic Treatment Extensive Facial Freckles

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Nader Elmelegy

Abstract

Freckles are typical epidermal pigmented disorders that occur at sun-exposed areas, presenting with dark-brown or light-brown circular hyperpigmentation. A lot of treatment modalities have been used for treatment of freckles like chemicals, electrosurgery and cryotherapy. These treatments may cause undesirable side effects such as scaring (Sarkar et al. in Indian J Dermatol 62(6):578-584, 2017). Microdermabrasion has been used in treatment of freckles; however, the results are not satisfactory, as it removes the outermost layer of the epidermis only (El-Domyati et al. in J Cosmet Dermatol 15(4):503-513, 2016). Also ablative lasers and non-ablative lasers have been used but have not proved to be completely satisfactory and share a common risk of post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation (Jang et al. in Dermatol Surg 26:231-234, 2000). In our study, we have used epiderm-abrasion-assisted intensive pulsed light (IPL) and radiofrequency (RF) to study their effect in treatment of freckles. this prospective controlled clinical trial was carried out on 48 patients, who presented with extensive facial freckles, in the period between March 2015 and April 2018. The epiderm-abrasion procedure was performed first, and then, electro-photobiomodul...Continue Reading

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