When treating telangiectasia and other vascular lesions, your physician is seeking the ideal combination of laser wave length, intensity and exposure time for the target blood vessel. The StarPulse technology, which Laserscope pioneered, allows the physician to deliver fully-variable bursts of laser energy at pulse widths in the 1 to 50 millisecond range. This clinically-proven treatment range permits precise matching of the laser's pulse width with the thermal relaxation times of the targeted blood vessel. StarPulse generates pulse widths between those of pulsed dye lasers and argon lasers. Within this range, the pulse widths created by StarPulse are long enough to prevent bruising and short enough to prevent scarring.
Some patients feel virtually nothing during treatment.
Others say they experience the sensation of a hot pinprick for a fraction of a second. It is so fast and easy that local anesthesia is seldom required. Treatment Variables Treatment with a laser varies from one patient to another depending on the type of lesion, size of the affected area, the color of the skin around the lesion, and the depth to which the lesion extends beneath the skin's surface. It is important to note that surface leg veins less than 1.5 mm in size are effectively treated with StarPulse. Before you decide to undergo leg vein treatments, a thorough consultation with your physician is required to determine the full nature of the condition to be treated.