Cutera® XEO™ Laser Vein Removal
You don’t have to hide unwanted veins on your face, chest, or legs. With an experienced clinician and the Cutera® Nd:YAG laser, you can get rid of veins from tiny red ones on the face to blue spider veins on the legs, safely, effectively, and without needles with Laser Vein Removal.
This laser removes veins by delivering pulses of energy that momentarily heat the blood inside the veins’s high enough to damage the vein’s walls without burning the surrounding skin. Over the weeks following treatments, the damaged veins are reabsorbed by your body, and the blood flow is diverted to deeper veins.
Tiny red facial veins can be removed quickly, sometimes with a single treatment. Spider veins and moderate-size (up to 3 mm wide) blue-green leg veins can also be treated with excellent results. Varicose veins, which usually look knotty or bulge outward, are best treated by a vascular surgeon.
What To Expect with Laser Vein Removal
The tip of the laser is ice cold to help cool the skin before and after the vein is treated. Most people who have had sclerotherapy or cauterization of veins report that laser vein therapy is a much less uncomfortable experience. After a treatment, there’s usually some redness and occasionally some swelling over the treated veins for a few hours. Treated veins on the face may disappear immediately, but leg veins need up to 12 weeks to disappear.
Bruising is an occasional side effect of laser vein treatments, but it occurs much less frequently than with sclerotherapy.
Patients often find that one or two treatments are sufficient for most unwanted facial veins on the cheeks and chin, although nasal veins may require several treatments. For unwanted leg veins, an average of three treatments will usually reduce most spider veins.
Some spider veins are the result of deeper vein problems and may not respond to either laser treatments or sclerotherapy. Signs of deeper vein problems that are best evaluated by consulting a vascular surgeon include clusters of blue veins on the feet and ankles, starburst clusters of veins where multiple veins radiate out from the center, bulging vein areas, and veins found on the inside of the knees.
Call Skinspirations 727-571-1923 or register online here for a complimentary consultation to learn whether laser vein therapy can reduce your unwanted veins.
