Looking to enhance your appearance without cosmetic surgery? Hamilton’s Dr. Peter Vignjevic can help. With years of experience performing dermatology services, Dr. V can treat a variety of skin conditions, including sun-damaged skin.
Over many years, sun exposure leads to skin damage such as fine lines and wrinkles, liver spots and broken blood vessels, as well as thinning of the skin and a leathery texture. There are several ways to help the skin rejuvenate itself
General Measures to Prevent Sun Damage
- Wear a hat with a broad brim and protective clothing (e.g. long sleeves)
- Avoid the outdoors when the sun is strongest between 10 am and 3 pm
- Use a sunscreen year round with an SPF of at least 30
- Wear a sunscreen that protects against UVA and UVB
- Reapply sunscreen every hour if you are in water or sweating heavily
- Wear sunscreen even if you are in the shade, it is still possible to burn
- Avoid tanning beds
- They cause skin cancer and wrinkling
- Protect your lips with a good quality lip balm
Sun Damage Treatments
- Telangiectasia (Broken Facial Capillaries and Blood Vessels) can be treated with IPL – Intense Pulsed Light Photofacials
- Liver spots can be removed with liquid nitrogen (a cold freezing spray) or IPL – Intense Pulsed Light Photofacials
- A series of physician strength chemical peels or microdermabrasiontreatments performed in the office, can also help improve skin:
- Texture
- Tone
- Colour
- Smoothness
- Injections can be used to eliminate or improve:
- Crow’s feet
- Forehead wrinkles
- Frown lines
- Smoker’s Lines around the lips
- IPL (Intense Pulsed Light) – Fotofacials – IPL treats and removes:
- Broken facial blood vessels (telangiectasia)
- Background red skin tones
- Unwanted brown freckling
- Enlarged pores
- Sun damage
- Devitalized collagen in the skin.
All of these lead to smoother, younger looking skin and reduced redness at the same time.
- Levulan IPL (Intense Pulsed Light) – Fotofacials for treatment of:
- Severe sun damage
- Intense skin rejuvenation
- Precancerous sun spots (Actinic Keratoses)
- Acne
- Levulan Blue Light – Blu U Photodynamic Therapy for the treatment of:
- Severe sun damage
- Intense skin rejuvenation
- Precancerous sun spots (Actinic Keratoses)
- Acne
What Other Cosmetic Procedures does Dr. Vignjevic perform?
Removal of:
- Liver Spots
- Warty Age Spots (Seborrheic Keratoses)
- Moles
- Broken Facial Blood Vessels
- White Heads (Milia)
- Cysts on the Body and Scalp
- Skin Tags and more
Our aestheticians provide free consultations regarding:
- Injections
- Microdermabrasion
- Blue Light, Levulan therapy
- Laser Hair Removal
- Photofacials, IPL (Intense Pulsed Light)
- Lactic Peels and Lactic Peels with a Retinoic Acid Boost
- Masks (Calming, Hydrating)
- Milia (White head) and Comedone (Black head) extraction
- Eyelash Enhancing Treatments