PREVENTION IS KEY! Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) is an innovative, cutting edge treatment to treat and remove precancerous skin cells and sun damage. Levulan specifically targets the precancerous cells and when activated by laser light, the cells are destroyed leaving the rest of your skin healthy. This procedure leaves your skin brighter, pores smaller, younger and less weathered looking. PDT is recommended for all patients who have sun damage, rough skin, pre-cancerous lesions or history of skin cancer.

Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) is a unique and highly effective treatment for sun damage and pre-cancerous lesions. There are 3 steps to this treatment: 1) Gentle microdermabrasion to deeply cleanse and exfoliate your skin and unclog pores. Step 2: application of the light-absorbing agent Levulan. This liquid is left on your skin while it very selectively sinks into the pre-cancerous cells. The absorption of the Levulan essentially turns the sun damage and pre-cancerous cells into "targets" for the next step – light therapy.  Step 3:  You are treated with the ELOS Fotofacial Laser RF. This laser is drawn to the "targets".  Your skin will be very photosensitive for the next 48 hours, so it is recommended that you stay indoors during that time. Over the course of the next week the pre-cancerous cells will slough off. The best results are seen with 2 or 3 treatments performed once every 4-6 weeks.

Benefits of this treatment over traditional pre-cancerous skin treatment is this involves less risk than surgical procedures, no permanent lightening and changes to the skin from liquid nitrogen cryotherapy, this can be done on an outpatient basis, virtually pain free, treats all sun damage, improves overall skin quality and PDT includes an advanced laser treatment usually used to remove redness, broken capillaries and brown sun damage.