Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Cosmetic Treatment Provides Healthy Benefits for Sun Damage (Actinic Keratoses) in Orlando.

Winter Park Laser and Anti-Aging Center is one of the few medical spas in central Florida to offer the cutting edge treatment; Photo-Dynamic Therapy using Levulan by DUSA Pharmaceuticals. While many women are concerned with the unsightly dark spots that appear on their skin after years of sun damage, even more are suffering from actinic keratoses (pre-cancerous lesions)-over 10 million Americans have these AKs. Now there is a treatment that will remove and reduce the sun damage cosmetically, while also treating and destroying the actinic keratoses which are pre-cancerous cells. PDT at Winter Park Laser is performed by licensed professionals and supervised by plastic surgeon Jan V. Karlin M.D. and is a combination of Intense Pulsed Light Therapy and photosensitive topical solution Amino Levulanic Acid. This Safe treatment typically results in a 30-60% improvement in the tone, texture, and pigment of the skin as well as the destruction of the actinic keratoses. Multiple treatments may be necessary depending on the severity of the sun damage.

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