title: Aging facial skin: infrared broad band light technologies.
abstract: The application of infrared broadband light is the more recent addition of nonsurgical laser and light-based treatment for skin laxity and rhytids. Infrared broadband light, when used with the mobile technique, offers a painless, safe, nonsurgical alternative treatment option for treatment of skin laxity on the face and neck. Multiple clinical studies have demonstrated improvements in skin laxity correlated histologically with neocollagenesis and neoelastogenesis over a 6-12 month period. The consistency of clinical improvement in skin laxity supports the use of this approach for moderate skin laxity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Dermatology and Laser Surgery Center, Yale University School of Medicine, 955 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10028, USA. dralexiades@nyderm.org
authors.forename: Macrene
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alexiades-Armenakas
mesh_terms: D005145:Face; D006801:Humans; D007259:Infrared Rays / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D010789:Phototherapy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D012060:Rejuvenation; D015361:Rhytidoplasty / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D015595:Skin Aging / Q000502:physiology / Q000528:radiation effects