Intense Pulse Light Therapy (IPL/RF)

If you have freckles, sun damage, or red patches that you’d like to minimize consider this treatment as a starting point. This energy platform helps even out skin tone and leaves skin looking and feeling softer and smoother—all with minimal recovery time.

This is our least aggressive treatment that uses high intensity pulses of visible light combined with radio frequency energy to treat a variety of skin conditions, including:

– Facial lines and wrinkles-provides a more youthful appearance, IPL is referred to as a “photoFacial” or “photo rejuvenation”

– Vascular lesions, including spider angiomas, broken facial veins, rosy cheeks (flushing), and the redness (erythema) of rosacea

– Freckles and age spots

– Acne (mild to moderate)

We recommend that patients wait until their tan fades before undergoing IPL treatment. Even sunless tanning can cause uneven skin tone after treatment. We apply a topical numbing cream about 30 minutes prior to your treatment so there is very minimal discomfort. After your treatment you will look a little pink and feel a bit warm, but not uncomfortable.

As your treatment series progresses, you will see noticeable improvement, including the reduction or elimination of blemished areas, lightening of brown sun and age spots, an improvement in general skin tone and texture, and less overall redness.

This is an effective treatment method for both men and women, and for those in any stage of the aging process. The procedure can be performed on the face as well as the neck, chest, and hands.Treatments need to be done as a series, usually 3 to 5 treatments, although some patients require more sessions. Your initial treatments will be done every 3-4 weeks. After that, maintenance treatments are recommended every 3-6 months to maintain the effects.

PhotoFacial treatments are non-ablative (no tissue is removed) so they can easily be done any day or time. You may return to normal activities and put makeup on after your treatment as there is no downtime. Improvements in skin tone and texture, as well as color and overall redness are visible after each session but a series of 5 treatments is recommended for optimal results. We will customize a skin care regimen to accelerate your results and help you maintain your improvements once you complete your series of treatments.

Anyone interested in softer, smoother, healthier–looking skin can benefit from this treatment. Patients with darker skin may not be a good candidate. The best treatment for darker ethnicities is our PicoWay® laser treatment as this laser is able to do all skin colors and types. Sun damage, uneven skin color, and even redness and flushing associated with rosacea are improved substantially with a PhotoFacial. Fine lines and wrinkles gradually appear softer while pores are refined. Deep and heavier lines and wrinkles are better treated with our CO2 laser. Broken capillaries, freckles, ruddy complexion are also dramatically reduced. PhotoFacial RF provides progressive, long-lasting results, leaving you with softer, younger looking skin. It is used to both repair the skin as well as maintain it.

Happy Clients

I am very happy I chose La Bella Vita Medi Spa to be the spa to take care of my IPL treatments. I have found Dr. Turnure to be an excellent listener, extremely compassionate and has a genuine concern for his patients well-being, which I have found to be a rarity. In addition, his entire staff has been very accommodating and a pleasure to work with both before and after treatments, Ashley has gone above and beyond to answer all of my questions.
Lindsay Cline