Puerto Plata - Sosua - Cabarete
Laser skin treatment for sun and age damage
Freckles, Age Spots, Brown Spots
Removed and Cleared!
We Come to your Dominican residence and provide laser treatment for age and sun damaged skin.
Examples are removing/fading freckles, age spots, brown spots and rejuvenate older skin to look younger.
Our current service area is the north coast of DR from Puerto Plata through Sosua to Cabarete.
FROM: David Fogg - "company owner". Sometimes knowing the story behind a business helps make things easier to understand. I designed this website to provide you with the basics to our service. If you are interested and send an email or whatsapp message, I can reply with a document that explains all the facts regarding laser skincare.
Whatsapp (954) 464-6330
Step 1 - We focus on improving skin that has been damaged by sun or age. Examples are removing freckles and causing sunspots, brown spots, patchy skin to fade, clear and improve.
This same process also causes your skin to produce more collagen which results in younger looking skin.
What about using lasers to remove and eliminate hair? This is a different type of laser than is used for skin. If we have enough people staying in DR who want laser hair elimination I will consider buying this type of laser and have shipped to DR and add to our service. For now, we focus on improving age and sun damaged skin.
Step 2 - We can schedule a visit to your Dominican residence. You can also take pictures of your skin with cell phone and send to us for review.
During the 1st appointment the laser technician can inspect your skin and inform you of the truth. What can realistically be done to improve your skin? We will provide the truth so even if you do not use our service we can help protect you from the many scams and false promises that are out there in this world.
If you approve, during this 1st visit the technician can select a patch on your skin to perform the first test with the laser. It is important to do a small test to see what happens over a few weeks before moving forward with more treatment.
You can send us pictures of the test patch so we can discuss the result with you and plan next steps.
#3 - It is best to go slow with laser skin care, same as with a haircut. With a haircut you can always cut more but if you rush and cut too much you cannot glue it back on 🙂 smile.
Example: Assume you have sunspots and some discolored older looking skin on your arm. The best plan is to use a lighter lasering process to cause as much spot fading as possible.
The result will help determine the next step which can be another light lasering or change the laser intensity to focus on specific spots that remain.
It may take several sessions that are layered on top of each other to end up with the desired result.
A reality check is it takes many years, even a lifetime of going out in sun, beaches and tanning that builds up in the skin over time. This is why most sun damage starts to come out more and more as people age.
If it takes years to happen your expectations should be realistic that this cannot be undone quickly in one session. Laser's are great but they are not magic.
#4 - Do lasers hurt? Yes, but there are many types of lasers for different skincare. I will provide you with a basic understanding here and farther down on this page show pictures with more details.
Ablating or Ablate: FYI, we do not do this but is good for you to know; Imagine a person with very deep wrinkles on their face. A powerful laser can literally cause the water in the facial skin to vaporize. This is burning off several layers of skin and is a very deep and intense Medical use of skin lasers.
You can imagine a person where the skin on their face has been burned off and they cannot go outside or must wear a mask for 1 or 2 months as this heals.
The end result can be the face growing new skin that looks much younger because the old skin was destroyed and replaced.
This is an example of intense medical use of lases that requires a trained doctor who specializes with this type of medical skin lasering.
Compare medical lasering to cosmetic such as improving sun damaged skin:
IPL or Intense Pulse Light: These are not true lasers yet are commonly used in skincare salons and even for sale on Amazon.
The IPL devices on Amazon are cheap copies of professional quality IPL devices.
IPL devices can help fade sun damaged skin to look improves but takes many more sessions than a laser. And, IPL devices are best with light sub damage, they are not suitable for age or darker sunspots.
An IPL decide could be a good step 1 in treating sun damaged skin but there are lasers that are better suited and eliminate the need for IPL.
Burning vs. Acoustic Shock:Â Â There are lasers that can fry or burn your skin. When the burned skin heals the hope and theory is new skin grows during the healing process that is clear and looks younger.
We selected a laser called ND YAG Q-Switched - which is an acoustic shock type of laser. This is similar to a Picolaser which you may have heard of
What is a picolaser compared to a Q-switched laser? A pico laser shoots out the laser beam in super fast pulses called picoseconds. A q-switched laser fires the laser pulses in nanoseconds.
What they do is very similar. A picolaser is more intense and accomplish a goal in 1 session that may require 2 sessions with a Q-switched laser.
However, if the picolaser goes too deep it can cause other types of damage that requires a longer healing process and can be more painful.
The big difference is the cost to manufacture picosecond lasers is far more expensive than Q-switched which makes the cost of picosecond laser treatment very expensive.
If you see the term PicoLaser do not asssume this is a picosecond laser. Many companies use the name Pico just to get attention when the product is not an actual picosecond laser.
How do these picosecond our Our Q-Switched lasers work?
A - There is a lighter setting where the laser can cover a large area of skin. This is similar to IPL except is real lasering.
This is called honeycomb or fractional. The single laser beam is divided into 100 smaller laser beams. Each beam hits the skin and specifically targets the melanin. Melanin is the dark color in skin, spots, freckles etc..
Because the intensity is spread out over 100 smaller laser beams the affect is spread out. These smaller laser beams hit the melanin in the skin and basically kills those colored cells.
At the same time this causes your skin to make more collagen which over time helps skin look younger and brighter.
This is a good 1st step to fade as much of the skin discoloring as possible.
Wait 2 weeks for healing and send pictures or ask for another appointment for the laser technician to inspect your skin.
Then decide on next steps.
B - A next step could be switching to a more powerful setting on the laser. Assume you have sunspots that just will not fade with the lighter laser work. The more powerful setting directs a single laser beam on the dark spot. Could be a freckle or a specific sun or age spot.
The laser beam does not burn the skin. It penetrates the skin to reach the darker colored cells with melanin. When hitting these dark colored cells the laser creates a tiny micro shock wave. This acoustic shock wave kills or destroys the dark colored cells.
These dead cells may be absorbed into the body or rise upwards into a scab which eventually heals and flakes off.
When fully healed the dark colored cells are gone and replaced with new, clear and younger looking skin.
As I said, is better to do this slowly even if requiring more sessions than to rush and overdo it which can kill too many cells outside just the darker cells. If this happens your skin requires more time to heal and there may be other issues.
Slow, patience and being smart is the better plan!
What about your skin color, tattoos, spider veins etc?
Our laser can effectively remove tattoos. This requires changing the laser settings because the laser to treat yellow and red ink is different from black inc.
The 1st step fractional or honeycomb laser setting can also work well at fading or eliminating spider veins same as with skin spots. The process is the same.
Dark skin is tricky. An example is if a person has black skin there is a risk that overdoing it with a laser ( rushing ) can kill the darker skin pigment resulting in small white spots. Same can happen if a person with a dark tan attempts laser treatment while their skin is tan from recent sun exposure.
If a person has lighter skin it is much less risky to treat sun damage and spots compared to a person with darker skin. One of the reasons is with lighter skin the laser can target the colored melanin. With darker skin is more difficult as spots and dark skin color tend to blend together.
Laser Facials compare to regular facials?  With a mud or charcoal mask you apply to your face, let dry and wash off. The hope is the mask extracted dirt and oil from your pores.
A laser facial is much more realistic. The carbon cream is applied to your face. When the laser hits the carbon cream, the cream vaporizes and this pulls out the dirt and oil with the vaporizing process.
This procedure can also cause skin pores to shrink and cause skin to produce more collagen = younger looking skin.
Ideas like this can be good for ongoing skin maintenance, after improving any sun damage.
Freckle Zapping or plasma spark devices:Â Assume you have specific dark freckles or a few sun or age spots. A plasma spark device has a needle coming out of one end. When touching your freckle, the needle fires a small plasma spark. The needle does not penetrate your skin. It just fires the spark at the freckle or dark spot.
The spark fries the freckle. This will cause a small red spot as the skin is slightly damaged. As this spot heals the redness goes away and is replaces with new skin and the freckle is GONE.
Does this hurt? There are creams that desensitize skin. Same as used with getting a tattoo.
I personally removed over 50 freckles from my arms and legs with this type of devices. Without the cream there is a slight sting just for a second as the spark fries the freckle. I personally did not need the cream, it's not that bad.
The picture to the left shows how an ND YAG q-switched laser passes through the surface layer of the skin, over a dark spot such as freckle, brown spot or age spot. Just below the dark spot the laser causes a tiny shockwave. This type of laser is not burning the skin. The shockwave targets the melanin (which is the dark color) and kills these dark pigmented cells.
The dead cells can be absorbed into the body. Or, they rise up into a scab. When the scab flakes off the melanin went with it. Wither way, new fresh skin with normal color tone replaces the previous skin with the dark spot.
This procedure can cause some redness of the skin. This is normal, the laser is killing the dark colored cells. The redness and any scab heal within 2 weeks as the new fresh skin replaces the previous skin that was killed by the laser.
With a honeycomb optical attachment the single laser beam is divided into 100 smaller laser beams. This can be a good 1st step to lightly treat a larger area of skin to cause sun damage to fade. Then, continue using single beam lasering to treat remaining more difficult sun or age spots.
This next picture shows a plasma spark device shooting a small plasma spark into e freckle. The spark ZAPs the freckle. This can also work with smaller brown sun or age spots and even small moles.
The spark kills the freckle or mole and the area will turn run as a scab forms. Over a few weeks the skin under the scab heals and the scab eventually falls off. The new skin under the scab is healthy and no more dark color = the freckle or dark spot are gone.
I did this to over 50 freckles and some brown spots on my legs and arms.
If a person has a large number of freckles and this plasma spark device is used, I suggest a numbing cream same as they use when giving people tattoos. The sting from a spark is not that bad, I never used the numbing cream. However, if someone else did this for me and in places I cannot reach such as my back, I would prefer they apply the numbing cream.
