Case study · Laser Treatments

Settling persistent redness across the cheeks

Three Nd:YAG sessions for visible facial vessels, with the diffuse pinkness improved rather than erased and maintenance built into the plan.

The same client in the same light and framing twelve weeks later: the visible vessels have cleared and a background pinkness remains — Left: before the course. Right: the standardised photograph taken at week 12. Unretouched, same lighting, same camera position.

Standardised clinical photograph before the course, showing diffuse redness and fine broken capillaries across the cheeks and nose — Left: before the course. Right: the standardised photograph taken at week 12. Unretouched, same lighting, same camera position.

The record

How the course ran

She had been told for years that she simply blushed easily. What she had was fixed background redness with a network of fine broken capillaries across the cheeks and the outer nostrils, which is a vascular finding and does not settle on its own.

We treated the visible vessels with the 1064 nm Nd:YAG across three sessions four weeks apart. She was warned that treated vessels darken and look worse for about a week before they clear, and that the diffuse pinkness underneath would improve rather than disappear.

The photograph is at twelve weeks. The larger vessels have gone, the overall redness is calmer, and a background of mild pinkness remains — which is exactly what we said would happen.

The other half of this was not the laser. She is on a rosacea-appropriate routine, she has given up the very hot showers, and she wears SPF 50 daily. Without those the vessels come back.

Individual results vary, and redness is one of the conditions where maintenance matters more than the course. We book a review at twelve months rather than pretending it is finished.

Individual results vary

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How the course ran

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