Brown Discoloration

We offer several types of treatment for  unwanted pigment on your face, chest, hands, arms, legs, and neck...

Conditions we treat...

• Brown Discoloration of the face, hands, chest, arms, and legs caused by aging and sun damage,,,also called solar lentigos
• Diffuse brown discoloration of the face and neck from sun exposure...also called hyperpigmentation or dyschromia
• Melasma...sometimes called the "mask of pregnancy"

A number of different treatment choices are available, depending on the cause and severity of the pigment...

Non-Surgical Skin Treatment Programs

• Obagi NU-Derm and C-Rx Skin Treatment Programs  (Face, neck and chest only).
  • Lighten, recondition and remoisturize your skin. 
  • Skin treatment programs supervised by our aesthetic nurse. 
  • You do the treatment at home. 
  • Requires a commitment to consistnet and regualar use of the products.

Office Procedures

• Portrait PSR³ Plasma Skin Rejuvenation 
  • Our BEST and most comprehensive treatment for unwanted pigment
  • Also tightens skin and removes many fines lines and wrinkles
  • New, lighter skin with often remarkable textural changes
  • One treatment or multiple treatments in our office, depending on how dark your skin type
• Candela IPL (Intense Pulsed Light)
  • Removes many unwanted Brown Discoloration in a few short office treatments
• Palomar YAG 5 Laser and Candela AlexLazr®
  • Good for treating a few individual large Brown Discoloration (often called solar lentigos)

Since we offer many different ways to treat unwanted pigment we strongly suggest a consultation with Dr. Bentkover or our aesthetic nurse to see which approach is best for you.

THE DETAILS OF EACH TREATMENT

Obagi® Skin Care

If you have diffuse excess pigment of your face (hyperpigmentation) or Melasma (the "mask of pregnancy") that never clears, you will probably be well served by treatment with Obagi Nu-Derm® or Obagi C-Rx®. We often recommend these treatments with or instead of one of our machines described above.  These are skin treatment programs that you do at home under the supervision of our aesthetic nurse. Obagi® products are well recognized world-wide for their effectiveness in rejuvenation of the skin from the bottom up. Improvement in uniformity of color, moisture and clarity are the principle goals of the Obagi® systems. They will rejuvenate your skin, leaving you with a healthier skin.  Results are often dramatic. Please see the Skin Treatments section of this website for a more thorough discussion of the Obagi® Skin Care programs

We often combine lasers or Portrait PSR³ Plasma Skin Rejuvenation, IPL or a laser with one of the Obagi® systems after the initial treatment to insure on-going protection of your skin and further rejuvenation from the bottom up.

Portrait PSR³ Plasma Skin Rejuvenation

• Our newest technology!
• Removes Brown Discoloration and some benign skin lesions

   Also... 

• Removes or improves wrinkles of the face
• Renews your skin and promotes growth of new, smoother, healthier skin
• Improves the appearance of acne scars
• Stimulates true new collageg growth for  up to 1 year after the procedure - longer than with the carbon dioxide laser
• An office treatment with topical and local anesthesia

A major advantage of Portrait PSR³ Plasma Skin Rejuvenation is that we can treat large areas on your face for pigment and wrinkles at the same time with minimal down time.  Portrait PSR³ Plasma Skin Rejuvenation from Rhytec is a new technology that utilizes a nitrogen plasma spray instead of a laser (Plasma is an electrified gas that is the fourth state of matter - solid, liquid, gas, and plasma.)  Portrait® requires only topical or local anesthesia. Some patients are treated in three short, low energy treatments; some patients are treated with one high energy treatment. The choice of type of treatment depends on the depth of your wrinkles, degree of hyperpigmentation and how much down time is reasonable for you.

Portrait® works by heating the deeper layer of the skin, the dermis. This heat stimulates new collagen growth, which, over time, leads to tightening of the skin. The upper layer of your skin (epidermis) and unwanted pigment generally peel off a few days after the treatment.

With Portrait PSR³ Plasma Skin Rejuvenation, we are now able to remove hyperpigmentation and rejuvenate your skin with same procedure

• With no skin preparation
• Very little down time
• Little anesthesia
• In an office procedure

Your skin will be red after the procedure, peel in few days and be largely free of significant redness in 10 days.

Intense Pulsed Light (IPL)

If you have over 50 Brown Discoloration on your face, neck, chest, hands, arms, or legs, it may not be practical to treat you with a laser. Lasers used for treating pigment typically deliver their light beams in a target ("spot size") of 2mm-6mm. a very small area.  The Candela IPL (Intense Pulsed Light) delivers light to a much larger target area. Therefore, it is often more practical to use this machine in treating large areas with even hundreds or thousands of Brown Discoloration. Because an IPL delivers light that contains a number of different wavelengths (colors), it is a bit less specific than a laser and may require more treatments. Dr. Bentkover will carefully evaluate your skin and recommend the machine he thinks will give the best results. Sometimes he recommends a combination of one of the lasers and the IPL machine.

Lasers

The Palomar YAG5® laser is a low dose YAG laser that can be used at two separate wavelengths of color to help eliminate pigment in the skin related to sun damage (and for some tattoos). There is minimal down time with some mild redness, swelling and sometimes some crusting for a few days. The AlexLazr® has similar applications and effects. Both lasers are used in the office and require only topical or no anesthesia. They are best when used to treat large isolated Brown Discoloration on the face and small to moderate numbers of Brown Discoloration on the hands, arms, legs and chest.

Too many choices?

Depending on the degree of pigmentation and your personal goals, you may choose to "jump start" your skin rejuvenation and pigment removal with Portrait PSR³ Plasma Skin Rejuvenation, a series of IPL treatments,  or one of our lasers before starting on an Obagi® program.  Or...perhatps all you need is Portrait PSR³ Plasma Skin Rejuvenation or Obagi®

The best way to decide which of our treatments for unwanted pigment is best for you is a consultation. 

Please call us at 508-363-6500