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Candela Nordlys Skin Rejuvenation Treatments

Nuskinnovation offers a wide variety of treatments using our state of the art Candela Nordlys treatment machine. These treatments are used for the prevention & treatment of the following conditions:

Hair Removal

Hair removal, also known as epilation or depilation, is the deliberate removal of body hair.

Photo Rejuvenation

Photorejuvenation is a skin treatment that uses lasers, intense pulsed light therapy to treat skin conditions and remove effects of photoaging such as wrinkles, spots, and textures.

Leg Vessels

Nuskinnoavtion has a procedure, whereby we inject the veins with a solution that scars and closes those veins, causing the blood to reroute through healthier veins. In a few weeks, treated spider veins fade.

Rosacea

Rosacea is a common skin condition that causes redness and visible blood vessels in your face. It may also produce small, red, pus-filled bumps.

Telangiectasias Face

The distorted blood vessels generally measure between 1 and 3 millimeters (mm) in width. They are usually harmless but can cause itching and pain. They commonly occur on the face, nose, chin, and cheeks, where they may cause facial redness. Telangiectases are also often present on the legs, chest, back, arms, and legs.

Skin Texture

Nuskinnovation offers state of the art treatments to smoothen and soften uneven skin texture.

Venous Lakes

Venous lake is an abnormal fusiform dilation of a vein, it is generally solitary, soft, compressible, dark blue to violet colour, commonly found on sun-exposed surfaces of the vermilion border of the lip, face and ears. Lesions generally occur among the elderly.

Onychomycosis

Onychomycosis is a fungal infection of the nail. Symptoms may include white or yellow nail discoloration, thickening of the nail, and separation of the nail from the nail bed. Toenails or fingernails may be affected, but it is more common for toenails to be affected.

Port Wine Stains

A port-wine stain is the discoloration of the human skin caused by a vascular anomaly (a capillary malformation in the skin). They are so named for their coloration, which is similar in color to port wine.

Acne

Nuskinnovation offers skin rejuvenation treatments for people who suffer from Acne or have Acne scarring.

Poikiloderma of Civatte

Poikiloderma of Civatte, also known as sun aging, is a condition caused by sun exposure. The skin changes as a result of chronic, long term exposure to the sun as well as normal aging. These chronic reddish-brown discolorations are commonly found on the neck and cheeks.

Warts

A wart is generally a small, fleshy bump on the skin or mucous membrane caused by human papillomavirus. Nuskinnovation offers treatments to remove warts.

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Intense Pulsed Light

Intense pulsed light, or IPL, is widely used treatment when it comes to cosmetic dermatology. The light therapy procedure treats countless skin issues like uneven skin tone, wrinkles, blemishes, large pores, and redness.

Intense pulsed light therapy is as simple as treating skin with a series of light pulses, customized to your skin’s needs. It can be used on the face, hands, or other areas of the body.

IPL is entirely non-invasive, requires no recovery time, and can improve your appearance for up to a year.

What is IPL?

Intense pulsed light (IPL) is a technology used to perform various skin treatments for aesthetic and therapeutic purposes, including hair removal, photorejuvenation(e.g. the treatment of skin pigmentation, sun damage, and thread veins) as well as to alleviate dermatologicdiseases such as acne.

The technology uses a high-powered, hand-held, computer-controlled flashgun to deliver an intense, visible, broad-spectrum pulse of light, generally in the visible spectral range of 400 to 1000 nm. Various cutoff filters are used to selectively filter out lower wavelengths, especially potentially damaging ultra violet light.

The resulting light has a spectral range that targets specific structures and chromophores (e.g. melanin in hair, or oxyhemoglobin in blood vessels) that are heated to destruction and reabsorbed by the body.

IPL shares some similarities with laser treatments, in that they both use light to heat and destroy their targets. But unlike lasers that use a single wavelength (colour) of light which typically matches only one chromophore, and hence only one condition, IPL uses a broad spectrum that when used with filters, allows it to be used against several conditions.

Contradictions

Factors acting directly against the treatment

Patients on topical or systemic steroid medication or onn on-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID). Ellipse treatments produce a desired low-grade inflammation. Steroids and anti-inflammatory drugs act against such inflammation reducing or negating the effectiveness of the treatment.

Relative contraindications

 

    • Patients with any disease or genetic condition causing photosensitivity to light with in the range of wavelengths emitted by the Ellipse applicator used, as this increases the likelihood of a burn or violent erythema.
    • Patients undergoing treatment with any medication causing photosensitivity to light within the range of wavelengths emitted by the Ellipse applicator used, as this increases the likelihood of a burn or violent erythema. Note that some natural remedies such as St John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum) cause photosensitivity.
    • Patients undergoing treatment with anti-coagulants,as these increase the risk of bruising after treatment. Note that natural remedies containing Gingko biloba have powerful anticoagulant properties.
    • Patients suffering from long term diabetes,as diabetes may affect the skin healing process.
    • Patients suffering from haemophilia,or other coagulopathies (clotting disorders),as these significantly increase the risk of bruising during and after treatment.
    • Patients tending to produce keloids or hypertrophic scars.
    • Patients with sun-tanned skin or fever.
    • Patients who have received gold injections where there has been some leakage/spillage into the epidermis. This presents as an area of dark grey tissue which will absorb the light energy.
    • Permanent make-up (dark colours in particular) will absorb the light energy and the patient may feel a burning sensation (with burns in worst case). These areas will be covered with white paper. This is also the case if the patient has a tattoo.
    • There are isolated reports of problems caused by treating over earlier fat injections and some fillers – so users should take extra care in treating of earlier fat injections, or over unknown fillers.
Skin Type

The type or colouring is determined by the amount of pigment (melanin) contained in the skin cells, and this is determined by heredity and race. Skin type is not changed by exposure to sunlight, nor by age. As well as determining the default energy of a treatment, skin type also determines the length of time taken to produce a reaction to that treatment. Darker skin types respond more slowly to intense pulsed light and their therapeutic window for treatment (the zone where a beneficial result occurs without the risk of side-effects) is smaller. This means that the risk of side-effects is higher in darker skin types. It is essential to determine the skin type accurately to assess both the risk of side effects and the response time. The following points should be noted:

      • Hair colour may be artificial.
      • The patient may be wearing coloured contact lenses.
      • The apparent skin colour may be the result of cosmetics or sun exposure.

The actual skin colour is better determined by parting the hair and examining the scalp, since hair normally protects the skin of the scalp from suntan.

Sun Tan

Ellipse grades the degree of suntan as: None; Light; Medium; Medium-Heavy; Heavy. In the 30 days before and 30 days after treatment, clients should avoid the sun, or use sun-protection (SPF 50) when sun exposure is unavoidable. This is especially true for darker skinned clients, because sun-exposure increases the risk of post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation. Limiting sun exposure in vascular treatments is especially important as recent exposure (especially exposure recent enough to still give a slight feeling of warmth) can cause significant problems as the warmth increases the size of blood vessels in the skin. This increases the amount of the chromophore haemoglobin present. In the 30 days prior to treatment,do not take solarium, sunbathe or use tanning sprays or a sunbed. This will increase the level of melanin in the skin and make treatments more uncomfortable with an increased risk of side effects.

Physics - light as electromagnetic radiation (EMR)

Put simply, light is just a form of energy, and all laser or intense pulsed light treatments use this energy to do work. The light travels in waves, similar to waves travelling on the surface of a pond.

The Waves on a pond (like sound waves) are a mechanical wave, but light (just like X-Rays or Radio Waves) are slightly different: they are electromagnetic waves (waves of pure energy). The various types make up the electromagnetic spectrum, or spectrum of electromagnetic radiation. This spectrum of electromagnetic radiation stretches from gamma rays to radio waves, as shown below. There are three ways to describe the waves, according to type:

 

Visible and Infrared Light, used by all intense pulsed light sources and most medical lasers are described by their wavelength (nanometres). Microwave and Radio waves are described by their frequency (Hertz). Lasers and intense pulsed light sources mainly use the visible to near infrared part of the spectrum (Fig 10), with wavelengths from 400 nanometres (nm) to 1 200nm. There are exceptions such as the CO2 laser (10 600nm) and Er:YAG laser (2 940nm).

While light travels in waves, the waves are made up of “particles” of light called photons. Whenever a photon is absorbed, its energy is changed into heat (photothermolysis), and this absorption of light energy is the basis for all light/tissue interaction. Light energy delivered to the skin is measured in Joules and is best expressed as the energy delivered to a certain area (also called the fluence) measured in J/cm . The length of time that the light is exposed to the skin is called the pulse duration, and is measured in milliseconds (ms).

Laser and intense pulsed light(IPL)

In recent years the distinction between laser and Intense Pulsed Light has become less clear in the minds of the users, and the term “laser” hair removal is increasingly used for any light-based treatment. Technically, the light emitted by an Intense Pulsed Light system differs from the light emitted by a laser as indicated on the right:

The light emitted by IPL systems is not one single wavelength, but covers a spectrum of different wavelengths. By using different filters it is possible to allow through light that matches the requirements for different treatments, so that one system can be used for more than one application.

Light – Tissue interaction

Absorption

A chromophore is a chemical within the skin that absorbs light of certain wavelengths. When a photon is absorbed, it surrenders its energy to the chromophore or to water. The photon no longer exists and its energy is changed to heat in the chromophore. This is similar to the way in which a dark surface becomes warmer than a white surface when exposed to sunlight. The most important substances in the skin that are capable of selective light absorption are:

      • Melanin (found in the epidermis,hair and hair follicles).
      • Oxyhemoglobin + haemoglobin (found in the blood).
      • Water.

Protoporphyrin is also capable of selective light absorption. This chemical is produced naturally in quite low levels, and in much higher levels by the acne bacterium P acnes. The levels of protoporphyrin in non-acne skin can be heightened by the introduction of the chemical 5-ALA into the skin. Absorption by protoporphyrin will be discussed later. The degree of absorption by each chromophore depends on the wavelength of the light used.

Penetraton Depth
The penetration depth of the light into the tissues also depends on the wavelength. Longer wavelengths (600 – 1000nm) penetrate deeper into the tissues, but wavelengths above this figure are predominantly absorbed by water in the skin. Penetration depth of the light into the skin can be compared to the depth that sunlight penetrates into water. At a low depth of water, all colours can be seen, but the deeper one dives, the less light penetrates and a colour change is observed.
Thermal relaxation time and photothermolysis
Light entering the skin will only have an effect when it is absorbed by a chromophore and converted into heat. The biological effect following absorption is dependent on the temperature achieved. When light is absorbed, all chromophores present are heated. Heat loss begins immediately, as heat is conducted to all adjacent tissues. The rate of the heat loss varies according to the thermal relaxation time (TRT) of the tissue. The TRT is defined as the time it takes for the tissue to cool down to the ambient temperature following heating. Large objects cool more slowly than small ones. Additionally, the Thermal Damage Time (the time taken to destroy a target) increases with the size of the target. How warm the target becomes depends on the active heating of the chromophore as it absorbs light energy and the passive cooling as heat is conducted of heat to the surrounding tissue. The overall effect of damage to tissue in response to the absorption of light is called photothermolysis.
Selective Photothermolysis
The aim of selective photothermolysis is to selectively heat up and destroy a specific target without damaging the surrounding tissues. To achieve selective photothermolysis three parameters must be controlled: ● The wavelength (or waveband) of the light is selected so that the light energy is absorbed by the chosen chromophore. ● The duration of the light pulse is selected to ensure the target is lethally damaged with minimal conduction of energy into the surrounding tissue. ● The right energy level is chosen to create enough heat to lethally damage the target within the given pulse time. By controlling these three parameters, selective destruction of the target chromophores can be achieved without injuring the surrounding tissue.

The xenon lamp of an IPL system emits a wide spectrum of different wavelengths at the same time (from approximately 240 – 1200nm). This light is then filtered to match different applications. Two different types of filtering can be distinguished:● Single mode filtering as used in the first generation intense pulsed light systems. These systems use a coloured filter to remove energy below a given wavelength (on the left side of the absorption curve). Depending on the type of filter the emitted light typically starts somewhere between 510 and 720nm and goes up to 1200nm.

Ellipse Dual Filter
Ellipse dual mode filtering uses filters on both sides of the selectively emitted wavelength band to remove wavelengths below and above a chosen range. Shorter wavelengths are stopped using a coloured filter (selected by the choice of applicator to be below 400, 530, 555, 600 or 645nm). Longer wavelengths are removed by passing the light through water (before it reaches the skin surface) to filter out all wavelengths above 950nm, which otherwise would lead to unspecific heating of the epidermis and increase the risk of adverse effects such as burns.Water filtering is effected by circulating cooling water around the flash lamp and the filters in the hand piece of the Ellipse system. For selected applications additional filters at 720nm or 750nm are used to remove light above these wavelengths.Since Ellipse Intense Pulsed Light products can be used to treat a range of conditions, the light waveband used is determined by the targets you wish to treat.