High Intensity Pulsed Light Therapy is a promising new procedure also known as Intense Pulsed Light Therapy and IPL Photorejuvenation, computer controlled light therapy, Light Laser, MultiLight, or by various trade and service marks, FotoFacial ™, PhotoFacial ™, PhotoDerm ™, EpiLight ™, MultiLight ™, PlasmaLight,  and I am sure, soon-to-be others.

It is phenomenal new mini-procedure capable of diminishing or fully ridding one of age/liver spots, fine wrinkles , facial flushing, redness, broken capillaries, telangiectasia which are purple or blue veins on the face, hemangiomas (sacs of red, purple or blue blood vessels resembling a blister, aka strawberry hemangiomas), freckles, minor sun damage, port wine stains, tattoos, varicose veins, spider veins, flat birth marks, hypo-pigmentation and even hair removal!  And the best part?  NO downtime!  Intense Pulsed Light Therapy gives you the benefits of a medium depth laser or chemical peel or other type of resurfacing/rejuvenation procedure without the blisters, burns and long recovery time.

This incredible new therapy was pioneered by Dr. Patrick Bitter Jr. and is based on emitting high intensity pulses of light (not lasers) to penetrate the skin and rid you of various complaints.  There are different machines for different levels or types of penetration. For instance, PhotoDerm as the PhotoDerm VL (vascular lesions) {VascuLight/MultiLight}, PhotoDerm PL (pigmented lesions) or PhotoDerm HR (hair removal), Quantum SR (skin rejuvenation).

There is a range of IPL machines including LumenisI® Quantum IPL® (the successor to PhotoDerm®), EpiLight® and Ellipse®. Individual machines may be specially designed to focus on certain problems but may not be equally effective. PhotoDerm and PhotoFacial™ intense pulsed light systems are expensive!