{"id":4858,"date":"2018-02-13T16:54:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T16:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crowndermatology.com.au\/?page_id=4858"},"modified":"2024-05-04T00:44:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T00:44:06","slug":"melasma-treatment-with-laser","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/crowndermatology.com.au\/crown\/melasma-treatment-with-laser\/","title":{"rendered":"Melasma Treatment With Laser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6013\" src=\"https:\/\/crowndermatology.com.au\/crown\/wp-content\/uploads\/Laser-treatment-melasma.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"896\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crowndermatology.com.au\/crown\/wp-content\/uploads\/Laser-treatment-melasma.jpg 896w, https:\/\/crowndermatology.com.au\/crown\/wp-content\/uploads\/Laser-treatment-melasma-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crowndermatology.com.au\/crown\/wp-content\/uploads\/Laser-treatment-melasma-150x79.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crowndermatology.com.au\/crown\/wp-content\/uploads\/Laser-treatment-melasma-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 896px) 100vw, 896px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>TREATING MELASMA WITH LASER<\/h1>\n<p>Laser is great for some type of melasma when various topical treatments have failed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4880\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4880\" style=\"width: 1278px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4880 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/crowndermatology.com.au\/crown\/wp-content\/uploads\/melasma-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"treatment of melasma with laser.\" width=\"1278\" height=\"539\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">mask of pregnancy in patient with darker skin type.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A combination of\u00a0 high quality\u00a0 laser together with topical medication, excellent laser operator and post laser care will help with clearing melasma and keeping it away.<\/p>\n<p>SO WHAT IS MELASMA ?<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 5px;\" width=\"573\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 566px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This vintage clip has lots of good information on melasma for you to digest \ud83d\ude42\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cqk4Bw0hrdM\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>This\u00a0 skin discoloration occurs mostly in young to middle aged individuals. The majority of those affected are female. The discoloration appears from younger age then carry on into middle age. It could be\u00a0faded when you no longer care (ie. in your later life \u2013 when you have grand kids ). \u00a0If severe (or mild) and it can negatively reduce your quality of life.<\/p>\n<p>Melasma, also also known as chloasma or mask of pregnancy, is most common in women in the reproductive years, 20-50, and it is characterized by confluent patches of light brown to grey ink on your skin. This discoloration is due to excess pigmentation or hyperpigmentation of the facial skin and occurs mainly on the forehead, Centro face, cheek, jawline and can be caused by sun exposure, contraceptive pills (mostly oestrogen), hormonal changes (ie. pregnancy), some medications, skin rashes and genetics.<\/p>\n<p>There are four types of chloasma and they are epidermal (top skin layer) , dermal (middle skin layer ), mixed and an idiopathic form that you can\u2019t see and affects women with darker complexions.<\/p>\n<h3>HOW IS MELASMA TREATED TOPICALLY?<\/h3>\n<p>This skin pigment menance and it&#8217;s tough to treat. It\u2019s like trying to scrub off tattoos from your skin. Superficial melasma is the easiest to treat.<br \/>\nThings that you could do to stop\u00a0 chloasma are: No contraception, no babies, and no sunlight-\u00a0 not so practical !<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, you could be prescribed various topical medicines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TREATING MELASMA WITH LASER Laser is great for some type of melasma when various topical treatments have failed. A combination of\u00a0 high quality\u00a0 laser together with topical medication, excellent laser operator and post laser care will help with clearing melasma and keeping it away. SO WHAT IS MELASMA ? This vintage clip has lots of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowndermatology.com.au\/crown\/melasma-treatment-with-laser\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Melasma Treatment With Laser<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4858","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowndermatology.com.au\/crown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowndermatology.com.au\/crown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowndermatology.com.au\/crown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowndermatology.com.au\/crown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowndermatology.com.au\/crown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4858"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crowndermatology.com.au\/crown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6058,"href":"https:\/\/crowndermatology.com.au\/crown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4858\/revisions\/6058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowndermatology.com.au\/crown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}