| Cosmetic Treatment Provides Healthy Benefits for Sun Damage (Actinic Keratoses) in Orlando |
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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. According to international guidleines published in the January, 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) has been recommended by a consensus group of physicians as a highly effective first line treatment for actinic keratoses and in 2009 DUSA partnered witht eh Skin Cancer Foundation to raise awareness, as PDT is recommended by the American Cancer Society. 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. Winter Park Laser has been in Central Florida for over 5 years and has performed over a thousand photo dynamic therapy treatments with great success. Winter Park Laser is located at 610 N Wymore Rd. in Winter Park Fl. |
