Alster herself has at least 10 different lasers in her office. Many skin conditions respond well to laser surgery, including red vascular lesions such as spider veins on the face, hemangiomas, and birthmarks such as port wine stains, says Rox Anderson, M.D., director of the Laser Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Lasers also are useful for scars, warts, excessive eye folds, tattoos, and hair removal, along with such conditions as rosacea, brown age spots, and the brown and blue pigmented facial lesions common to Asian skin. Most Asians are told, 'There's no hope. But in one or two laser treatments, the facial lesion vanishes.
Lasers really are magic bullets.
They can do things deep in the skin without trashing anything else. It's not like surgery where the tools are not microscopically specific. And most significantly, laser resurfacing can remove precancerous lesions caused by sun damage. FDA Home Page Questions concerning the editorial content of FDA Consumer should be directed to FDA's Office of Public Affairs.