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Keloid scar reduction

A keloid is an abnormal response to an injury on the body where excessive amounts of collagen are produced and cause the scar to bulge.  Treatments will soften the scar appearance and eliminate the "bulging" response.

West Coast Laser recommends the following systems for keloid scar reduction treatments:

Vbeam™
The Vbeam™ 595 nm pulse dye laser has long been considered the "gold standard" for the treatment of vascular lesions and can also be used for the treatment of acne, stretchmarks, keloids, scar reduction, psoriasis and wrinkle reduction treatments. The innovative long pulse durations, up to 40 ms, deliver energy to targeted blood vessels over longer time frames thereby resulting in a more gentle heating effect generating a more uniform coagulation of the targeted vessels. This gentle heating enables the treatment to minimize or eliminate the purpuric response commonly associated with a pulse dye laser treatment.
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SmartXide DOT™
DOT Therapy is the newest, state-of-the-art procedure for laser skin resurfacing.  Using the SmartXide DOT™ CO2 laser system will allow the treating physician to take the technology to a new level with standard and fractional delivery methods to customize each treatment area on every patient.  DOT Therapy can be used for fractional laser resurfacing on the face as well as non-facial areas like the neck, decollete and hands to effectively treat sun damage, dyschromia (pigmentation), rhytids (wrinkles), skin laxity and acne scarring.

Unlike other skin resurfacing CO2 lasers, the SmartXide DOT™ laser system is unique because the treating physician is able to selectively control the spacing or "pitch" of the DOTs.  This control allows you to "fractionate" the laser energy over a customized pattern of micron-sized DOTs to maximize or limit the thermal density on the treatment tissue.  The untreated tissue remaining after DOT Therapy promotes faster healing times that can be customized with each patient depending on their schedule.

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