Hi everybody, I'm Dr Harshana Bijlani,
Medical head, Ageless Clinic.
We as Indians tend to get pigmentation,
so today's talk i'm going to talk to you all about pigmentation,
what can we do about the pigmentation in terms of treatments
and what you could do at home to prevent pigmentation
and help prolong your treatment after you've had it done.
I'm going to try not to sound very technical
but i'm going to try to cover
broadly what all you have out there
anywhere in the world for pigmentation.
I'm going to talk about lasers,
I'm going to talk about peels,
I'm going to talk about mesotherapy,
I'm going to talk about IV infusions
and lastly about supeer-medi facials.
Under lasers for lightening of pigmentation,
we have the Q-switched laser and the Picowave laser
and Picosure laser. And then you have IPLs
which are not actually lasers, they're more light.
But these are three main things
that you have in the market for pigmentation.
My favourite is the Picosure laser.
It works beautifully on the most stubborn pigmentation
and you usually see results within the first to second session.
Under peels because there are so many types,
you should actually do one based on your skin
and based on what you're expecting out of the peel.
So let me give you an example.
Let's say, I have a client facing job
and I have a little bit of pigmentation
and I don't have time for a down time.
I'm going to choose a peel which is a little bit more superficial
and something that allows me to go to work the next day.
You must note in these situations,
you may need more sessions of the same thing
and don't compare yourself to somebody else
who sat at home for five days
and allowed the peeling process to happen.
So what i mean is, we have superficial peels,
so if this is my skin, a superficial peel
works on this layer of the skin.
So certain examples would be glycolic acid,
salicylic acid, lactic acid.
So these work very superficially.
You have peels that work on the deeper layer of the skin.
These usually tend to have a little bit more of a downtime.
So examples would be TCA, Cosmelan
so these work on the deeper layer.
So that's peels for you.
So like i said just a reminder again,
make sure you choose a peel based on your downtime.
Next we spoke about Mesotherapy.
Now what is Mesotherapy?
Meso means small,
therapy is therapy.
So Mesotherapy is using
small amounts of whatever I'm using
to cause lightening of my pigmentation.
So I put it as micro droplets into the skin.
Now how i put it varies, I can use a gun,
I can use a meso jet,
I can use tiny micro dosing bottles
which are my favourite
and I can actually inject it.
So that's mesotherapy.
And in that what is it that I use?
I can use vitamin C, I can use idebenone,
I can use any sort of serum that helps brighten the skin
and you actually get serums that help in mesotherapy.
A lot of craze now
is using mesotherapy at home.
So have you heard of the derma roller?
It's a handheld device that you roll on your skin
and then you infuse your Vitamin C after that.
So you get certain home care which is
great for somebody who wants to look for something
that they can even do at home.
The next that we come to are IV infusions.
So what are these infusions?
When you take an oral tablet,
do you know how much of it is absorbed by your body?
Maybe 10 to 15 percent, maybe 20 percent tops.
But when you take an IV drip,
so that may be a D, it may be a B12,
it may be a vitamin C, it may be calcium,
it'd be anything.
You're actually getting almost 90 to 95 percent of it
literally into your body.
So for me, I love a lot of infusions
and the whole cocktail of vitamins that we make
and we infuse these. These are all very safe and very effective
and it works brilliantly on pigmentation
on glow, on energy, on immunity,
on so many aspects that we have on our skin.
The last and my most favourite are Medi-facials.
So what are medi-facials?
They are facials which are done in a medical way,
hence the word medi-facial.
In these we combine various technologies.
So for pigmentation the certain things
that you can combine in your medifacial
could be a microdermabrasion,
could be a quick superficial peel,
remember we spoke about superficial peels?
It could be a quick laser
it could be mesotherapy.
And you can do this all as a facial.
So in conclusion, what I'd like to touch on
is don't just think your clinic treatments
are the end-all and the be-all for your skin.
Make sure that you use good quality home care
and you take care of the sun.
So stay tuned and stay Glamrs.