The Evolution
of IPL
By Inga Hansen
Advances in engineering are making IPL devices
safer, more consistent and easier to use.
aesthetic community when it was ���rst introduced 20 years ago. Its inclusion
of multiple spectra of light delivered using laser-based technologies
suggested the ability to treat multiple indications in one system.
Unfortunately, the original Photoderm quickly fell out of favor. ���Te device
took a long time to warm up, and it was potentially hazardous, because it
didn���t have a lot of safety features,��� says Je���rey Dover, MD, associate clinical
professor of dermatology, Yale University School of Medicine, co-director of
Skincare Physicians, Chestnut Hills, Massachusetts. ���While it worked for
vascular facial lesions and lentigines and for treating photoaging in general,
frankly we never used our device. Te basic concept of intense pulsed light
as an alternative to laser made sense, but the results were unpredictable.���
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INTENSE PULSED LIGHT piqued the interest of many in the medical