Southern Skin and Wellness is located directly in the heart of the New Orleans CBD.
The redness and the vessels are treated with light that is absorbed by haemoglobin in the blood rather than by the skin around it. The vessel heats, collapses, and is cleared by the body.
Which wavelength is used depends on the size and depth of the vessel, which is why a device with only one option treats rosacea less completely. Rhinophyma is a separate problem and is addressed with ablative resurfacing to reshape the thickened tissue.
Dr. Michael Lindley, MD, performs these treatments, assisted by Kathryn, RN.
Rosacea has triggers, and knowing yours is half the management:
New Orleans is not a kind climate for rosacea. Heat and humidity are both triggers, and the social calendar runs on the other ones.
Visible broken vessels often clear dramatically, sometimes in a single treatment. Diffuse background redness usually needs a series of three or more, with gradual improvement across them.
Flushing is the hardest component to treat, because it is a vascular reactivity rather than a fixed vessel. It improves but rarely disappears.
And rosacea is chronic. Treated vessels do not come back, but the condition continues to produce new ones, so most patients return for maintenance every year or two. That is a normal outcome, not a failure of treatment.
