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Summer ~ The damage is done but we can help!

Take a good look in your magnified mirror, you know the one that shows you every enlarged pore and chin hair that only your friends under forty can spot.
Now take a scan of your skin, ā€˜post’ summer holidays.
Have you noticed a few extra brownish spots that weren’t there in May? Perhaps there are some new tiny red veins on your cheeks from those days out on that boat or maybe your skin now has that ā€œacid wash jeansā€ look from dehydration.

Never fear my friend, we can help reverse some of that damage!
Fall, winter and spring are your best times for IPL (Intense Pulsed Light) treatments, simply because you can’t be tanned when you have this treatment. So if you overdid it this summer, wait a few months until your tan fades.
IPL is one of the best things you can do for your skin in order to slow down or even reverse the aging process.
How it works:
Pulses of high energy light are sent into the skin, convert into heat and travel through to the area where there is the most melanin, meaning browns and reds. These areas are then ā€œtoastedā€ and the spots turn a highly attractive, dirt brown color but will flake off in 4-10 days and can be covered with makeup in the meantime. When the light reaches the reds, the blood in the vessels coagulates and your immune system takes it away within about 2 weeks.
How many treatments you will need really depends of the amount of damage you have and what kind of damage it is. Sometimes the sunspots will be mostly gone in 2 strong treatments but the reds tend to come back. So my best advice is to ALWAYS buy the money saving package. Even if your skin has cleared in a just a few treatments, the continued collagen stimulation and touch ups you will need will be covered and you can use the last few treatments later through the year when you see your results start to fade.
Remember the key with IPL is the same with all anti-aging treatments – keep them up!
It’s much more difficult to reverse damage than it is to maintain a good result.
At the Anti-Aging Clinic, our price for a single treatment of IPL is $450 but the package price of 4 treatments is $1400 with a $400 savings.

Preventing Sun Damage

I went to Mexico and fell asleep in the sun. I started out in the shade and hadn’t put on sunblock but by the time I woke up I was in full sun and burnt to a crisp! It’s been about a month now and I’ve noticed spots on my face that weren’t there before. What can I do?

First of all, try to remember that your sunblock should be a part of your morning skin care routine so you don’t forget it. Think of sunblock as the shield you put on at the end of your routine to protect your skin. It’s important to wear it all year no matter what the weather is like. Those damaging rays from the sun get through clouds all the same.

Now what are your options? If the new spots are significantly darker than your own skin tone, then Intense Pulsed Light ( IPL) could be the right treatment to lighten or reduce some of your spots.Ā  It may take a few treatments but the benefits of collagen stimulation and even redness reduction make IPL an excellent choice. If the spots are more like large patches, the problem can be more difficult. You may be looking at Fraxel Laser treatments or lightening creams. At this point, you would do best to come in to see Dr Frame or a laser technician to decide which treatment would be best for you.

I would also suggest that from now on, making sure your sunblock (minimum 30 SPF) is always on and investing in a high quality topical Vitamin C product like Vivier’s C&E Kinerol or Jan Marini’s C’esta to help protect and reverse the damage.

Marlee Davis, AntiAging Medical & Laser Clinic Staff.