Laser treatment can improve the appearance of burn scars and traumatic scars. When you burn your skin, it can cause the most visible scars. Many people experience burns in childhood, as at a young age, we don’t always realize the danger of open flames and hot water. The scars caused at any age are likely to remain visible for many years. They may fade and lighten in color (many burn scars start out a livid red color), but it is unlikely that serious burn scars will ever completely disappear. There is a new treatment available, however, that can effectively treat burn scars of all types, improving the appearance of the skin and getting rid of many burn scars completely. This treatment involves using specially designed and calibrated lasers to remove burn scars. “Fractional ablative lasers vaporize the scar by heating the skin up to greater than 100°C, Waibel explained. “The scarred area is replaced by brand new healthy collagen. Over a series of treatments, the skin appears much more normal.

What is Dermatoscopy? Dermatoscopy (also known as dermoscopy or epiluminescence microscopy) is the examination of skin lesions with a dermatoscope. This traditionally consists of a magnifier (typically x10), a non-polarised light source, a transparent plate and a liquid medium between the instrument and the skin, and allows inspection of skin lesions unobstructed by skin surface reflections. Modern dermatoscopes dispense with the use of liquid medium and instead use polarised light to cancel out skin surface reflections. This instrument is useful to dermatologists in distinguishing benign from malignant (cancerous) lesions, especially in the diagnosis of melanoma. What are advantages of Dermatoscopy? With doctors who are experts in the specific field of dermoscopy, the diagnostic accuracy for melanoma is significantly better than for those dermatologists who do not have any specialized training in dermatoscopy. Thus, with specialists trained in dermoscopy, there is considerable improvement in the sensitivity (detection of melanomas) as well as specificity (percentage of non-melanomas correctly diagnosed as benign), compared with naked eye examination. The accuracy by dermatoscopy was increased up to 20% in the case of sensitivity and up to 10% in the case of specificity, compared with naked eye examination. What are uses of Dermatoscopy? • The typical application of dermatoscopy is early detection of melanoma. • Digital dermatoscopy (videodermatoscopy) is used for monitoring skin lesions suspicious of melanoma. Digital dermatoscopy images are stored and compared to images obtained during the patient’s next visit. Suspicious changes in such a lesion are an indication for excision. Skin lesions, which appear unchanged over time are considered benign. • Aid in the diagnosis of skin tumors – such as basal cell carcinomas, squamous cell carcinomas,cylindromas, dermatofibromas, angiomas, seborrheic keratosis and many other common skin tumors have classical dermtoscopic findings. • Aid in the diagnosis of scabies and pubic louse. By staining the skin with India ink, a dermatoscope can help identify the location of the mite in the burrow, facilitating scraping of the scabetic burrow. By magnifying pubic louse, it allows for rapid diagnosis of the difficult to see small insects. • Aid in the diagnosis of warts. By allowing a physician to visualize the structure of a wart, to distinguish it from corn, callouses, trauma, or foreign bodies. By examining warts at late stages of treatment, to assure that therapy is not stopped prematurely due to difficult to visualize wart structures. • Aid in the diagnosis of fungal infections. To differentiate “black dot” tinea, or tinea capitis (fungal scalp infection) from alopecia areata. • Aid in the diagnosis of hair and scalp diseases, such as alopecia areata, female androgenic alopecia, monilethrix, Netherton syndrome,and woolly hair syndrome.Dermoscopy of hair and scalp is called trichoscopy. • Determination of surgical margin of hard to define skin cancers. Examples would be Bowen’s disease, superficial basal cell carcinomas, and lentigo malignas. These tumors have very indistinct margins. By allowing the surgeon to correctly identify the true extent of the tumor, repeat surgery often is decrease What kind of Dermatoscope is used at Shreya’s allSkin Clinic? We at Shreya’s allSkin Clinic use Handyscope system by Fotofinder. It converts iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S into a digital dermatoscope for skin examinations. It allows us to take brilliant polarized mole pictures of up to 20X magnification and to save them in the password protected App. Thus handyscope lifts handheld dermoscopy to a new quality level. Geman innovation in dermoscopy and the first of its kind in the world! What’s special about Dermatoscopy at Shreya’s allSkin Clinic? Handyscope combines digital dermoscopy with mobility and communication technology. We can use all the iPhone’s connectivity features and securely e-mail your photos across the globe with just a tap. Doctor can email you the dermatoscopy images to you for your future reference thereby taking the skin care to next level.

Mid-face and Cheek Filler Are you looking for a more youthful, fuller look in the cheek area? Shreya’s allSkin Clinic now introduces Volumising fillers, the fillers to correct age-related volume loss in the midface. Columising fillers are made with a modified hyaluronic acid, derived from a naturally occurring complex sugar. As we age, the curves of our cheeks begin to lose volume, causing them to sag and appear sunken. Volumising fillers work instantly to help restore your cheek contour with a subtle lift. With optimal treatment, natural-looking results last up to 2 years. The midface is the area of the face under the eyes and alongside the nose. This area can be the first sign of aging since it is the area where the ‘bags under the eyes happen’ and where the ‘grooves or folds’ alongside the nose and mouth occur. Both of these aging changes are the result of the descent of the ‘cheek pad/cheek fat’. It makes sense to simply ‘reposition the cheek pad to where it came from’ and restore a very natural and refreshed look to this part of the face. Since the eyes are a focus during conversation, one can expect people to comment such things as ‘you sure look rested; or simply, ‘you look great’. Mid face lift provides a natural and youthful appearance without an overdone or pulled look. Most persons who want a lower eyelid procedure, are usually focused on this area. Once they appreciate the reasoning for the development of aging changes in the lower lid area, they can appreciate the midface/cheek pad lift. Fillers Recovery • Cold compresses may be used immediately after treatment to reduce swelling. • You may experience some redness, tenderness, firmness, swelling, or bruising at the injection site. These side effects tend to be mild to moderate, and subside within a week after treatment. • Avoid touching the treated area for six hours after treatment. • Avoid intense heat, such as that from a sun lamp or sun bathing, until there is no more redness or swelling. • Avoid taking aspirin, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications, St. John’s Wort, and high doses of Vitamin E supplements for a week after being treated to minimize the chance of bruising. • You may resume most normal activities immediately after treatment. Fillers result • Immediate results that only improves over the week after treatment. • Natural-looking, softened, more youthful appearance.