Rosacea and redness, calmed.
Cheeks that give you away. Skin that reacts to wine, heat and stress. A flush that never quite leaves. We treat the redness and the visible vessels of rosacea with a laser, the 1064 nm Nd:YAG wavelength of the GentleMax Pro™, over a series of visits. It calms the redness; it does not cure rosacea, and we won't pretend otherwise.
Tell us what you see, not what you think it is called.
Redness that stays
The cheeks and nose that are pink before you have done anything. Calmed gradually over a series rather than covered up.
Flushing
Skin that reacts to wine, heat and stress and takes too long to settle. The laser works on the vessels behind the flush.
Visible vessels
The thread veins around the nose and on the cheeks. Facial capillaries are smaller and faster than leg veins, and people are often startled by how quickly they go.
Redness on darker skin
The Nd:YAG wavelength is the one that treats darker skin safely, so the settings are fitted to your skin, not a preset.
Bumps and breakouts with the redness
It depends how bad they are. Let us look, and we will tell you whether this is one for us or for a dermatologist first. For skin that is reactive day to day, a facial tuned down, not up, with Martha.
When it is something else
If what you have looks like anything other than rosacea, you will be sent to a dermatologist before we touch it.
Three parts. Nobody is rushed through any of them.
We look first
At the redness, the vessels and the skin around them, under proper light. Tell us what you are using for it: if your dermatologist has you on something topical we can sometimes still treat you, and if you are on antibiotics we can't.
The treatment
About twenty minutes for the full face. Each pulse is a snap of warmth; Candela's DCD cooling sprays the skin a fraction of a second before the light, which is why people tolerate it so well.
Afterwards
Just a little red. Redness responds over a series and nobody gets it in one visit: four treatments, four months apart, then as needed.
GentleMax Pro™
You will never have to ask for it by name.
The same dual-wavelength laser we use for hair removal and photofacials, with different settings: the Nd:YAG for vessels and redness, and for darker skin. It is a laser, not IPL. In the one randomised head-to-head trial, this type of laser (long-pulsed 755 nm Alexandrite and 1,064 nm Nd:YAG) calmed rosacea redness as well as the 585 nm pulsed dye laser, with fewer side effects: blistering in 0% of patients against 26.3% (Annals of Dermatology, 2016).
Brown spots and sun damage as well as the redness? That is a photofacial: see sun damage and uneven tone.
What the GentleMax Pro™ actually is →One visit at a time.
No packages, nothing prepaid. You pay at the visit, for the visit, and you can stop whenever you like.
Redness on the face from $400 per visit, done as a series, paid one visit at a time. No packages, nothing prepaid.
A full-face photofacial from $750 when brown spots and uneven tone are part of the picture.
Consultations are always free. We look at your skin and tell you honestly what a series will do.
Asked in the room, answered here.
Can rosacea be cured?
No. Laser calms the redness and the visible vessels; it does not cure rosacea, and anyone who promises that is selling something.
How many treatments does rosacea need?
Four treatments, four months apart, then as needed. After that it depends on your flare-ups, and could be every three to six months.
Is there downtime?
Hardly any. Your skin is just a little red that day and the next, and a full-face visit takes about twenty minutes.
Is it a laser or IPL?
A laser: the 1064 nm Nd:YAG wavelength of the GentleMax Pro™. It is not IPL. Most people use the words interchangeably, so if IPL is what you came in asking for, you are in the right place.
Is this laser as good as Vbeam (pulsed dye laser) for rosacea?
In the one randomised trial that compared them head to head, yes: a long-pulsed 755 nm Alexandrite and 1,064 nm Nd:YAG laser, the same type as our GentleMax Pro™, reduced rosacea redness as much as the 585 nm pulsed dye laser, with less blistering (0% against 26.3%). The study, Annals of Dermatology, 2016.
How much does rosacea treatment cost?
Redness on the face starts at $400 a visit, done as a series and paid one visit at a time. There are no packages and nothing to prepay. Consultations are always free.
Can I be treated while on rosacea medication?
Sometimes. It depends whether it is topical, so tell us what you are using. If you are on antibiotics, no.
Should I see a dermatologist first?
If anything about your skin looks like more than rosacea, yes, and we will tell you so before we touch it. With bumps along with the redness, it depends how bad they are.
Can I be tanned?
No. No active tan, no self-tanner and no sunburn on the area, before or for a couple of weeks after. Autumn through spring is the busy season for exactly this reason.
Ready to start, or not sure yet? Either is fine.
Pick a time straight on the calendar, or book an hour to talk it through first, in person, no charge to talk. You pay at the visit, for the visit.