LimeLight® Facial and IPL Treatments

Smooth Reflections Laser Center of O'Fallon, Illinois, provides a multitude of services to enhance your apperance. The LimeLight® Facial or IPL delivers a non-invasive light treatment that can be customized for different skin tones and aging conditions. The LimeLight® Facial procedure (Photorejuvenation) is specifically designed for the treatment of diffuse skin redness, tiny veins, brown spots, and sun damage.

What is a LimeLight® Facial?
The LimeLight Facial is a new, non-invasive approach to skin rejuvenation using Cutera's LimeLight®. The procedure offers the advantage of improving skin tone and surface imperfections associated with aging and photodamage.

What Areas Can be Treated?
The LimeLight® Facial is ideal for any part of your face, neck, and décolleté with skin redness, telangiectasia (tiny veins) or brown spots. LIght (low contrast) brown spots, which were previously difficult to resolve, respond very well to treatment.

Shown below are sample before and after photographs, click on images to enlarge.
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Before	After	Before	After
LimeLight® | Cheek		LimeLight® | Décolleté

What Does the Treatments Do?
By adjusting the settings, we can customize your LimeLight® Facial to your skin type and selectively treat the brown and/or red pigmented areas on your skin. It’s the heating of the pigmented brown or red cells that causes the therapeutic effect.

What Do Treatments Feel Like?
When the pulse of light is delivered, patients will experience a mild pinching or stinging sensation. We use a clear ultrasonic gel is used to cool the skin during the treatment.

How Long Will the Treatments Take?
Treatment time depends on the area of the body to be treated. However, most treatments should take less than an hour.

How Many Treatments Will I Need?
One to three treatments are usually sufficient to see results. Additional treatments may be recommended, especially for excessively sun-damaged skin.

What Happens After The Treatment?
Immediately following the treatment, brown spots will start to darken and your skin will appear slightly red. The treated area may be mildly swollen. This typically lasts a few hours and in rare occasions may last a day or longer. Make-up can be applied to cover the redness.

Are There Any Restrictions On My Activity After Treatment?
Following the treatment, you can return to your normal activities right away. However, since some redness may occur, you may want to plan your work or social engagements accordingly. The use of sunscreen is highly recommended on any treated areas exposed to the sun. As always, it is a good idea to limit your sun exposure.

How Soon Will I see Results?
Within one to three weeks, the darkened spots will flake off and fade. Diffuse redness or telangiectasia will decrease and your mottled complexion will improve.

Will the Spots and Redness Reappear Over Time?
New brown spots, telangiectasia, and diffuse redness may appear with new sun damage; however, they too can be treated. Remember to always apply broad-spectrum sunscreen such as Celazome® MAX SPF 29, when outdoors to minimize sun damage and the appearance of new spots and diffuse redness. Rosacea is a chronic condition and can not be “cured” with any laser or light source; however, its appearance can be improved.

Is There Down Time Associated With This Procedure?
Patients generally return to normal activity immediately. Most find the minimal disruption in normal routine to be very appealing.

What do I do Next?
Call 632-SMOOTH to schedule your appointment for a complimentary consultation. Our office is conveniently located in O'Fallon, IL and we are just a phone call away! Smooth Reflections Laser Center is The First Step to a Smoother You!™ One of our Registered Nurses will be happy to answer all your questions and help you decide if this is the right procedure for you.

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