Dr. Charles Mok explains which laser treatments are safe in summer and which aren't. IPL photofacials should wait if you're in the sun. Laser hair removal works on tanned skin with lower settings. Fraxel, Clear + Brilliant, and radiofrequency microneedling are fine year-round.
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When I say lasers, I might even encompass different energy based devices that really aren't technically lasers. Sometimes they're called that. So common procedures, intense pulsed light, also known as the photo facial. That is a summer not a great idea. So if you're in the summer and you're not getting much sun exposure, you can do ipl. Love doing IPL for prevention and restoration. But during the summertime we're kind of backing off on that a little bit about laser hair removal. Actually you can do it during the summertime. So there's laser safe to do on tan skin. Maybe not go out, you know, sun tanning like let's say a week right before and deliberately. But cat casual sun exposure is no problems at all. If you did get recent suntan. We actually use a little bit different energy and a little bit less aggressive treatment. You can still do it. Fraxel laser and clear and brilliant. Those are two of our workhorses. Sun has no effect on it. Ultherapy. Sun has no effect on it. The target is a tissue and radio frequency microneedling. Sun has no effect on it. So you can generally do most of those procedures. IPL is the one that I'm not going to do. And KTP laser, those are too sun sensitive.
