Treatment · Pigment & vascular treatment
Color has a cause.
Patients often describe all discoloration the same way — as "pigmentation" or "redness" — but visible color can be pigmentary, vascular, inflammatory or mixed, and can sit at different depths. The treatment decision begins with identifying what's actually creating the color, not with choosing a laser.
What this treats
This treatment family is considered for concerns where color, rather than texture or structure, is the primary finding.
Pigmentation & uneven tone — Primary concern this family addresses — pattern, depth and trigger decide which option applies.
Redness & visible vessels — Primary concern this family addresses — diffuse redness and discrete vessels are assessed separately.
Texture & enlarged pores — Conditional — considered when photodamage or pigment overlap contributes to textural change.
How the technology is chosen
The wavelength follows the target — not the other way around.
A multi-purpose laser platform is not a reason to treat every concern with the same device. Once assessment identifies what's actually creating the color — and at what depth — the option below is selected to match that target, patient skin characteristics and clinical objective. The question is never "can this platform treat it?" It's which option, if any, is the appropriate match for what was found.
Technology options
Four options exist within this family. Which, if any, applies follows from assessment — not from this list.
- 01
PicoWay
Pigment is not one problem.
A picosecond, multi-wavelength laser platform. Wavelength and applicator are chosen for the depth and type of pigment identified — a technical capability, not a claim that one wavelength suits every pigmentary finding.
- 02
Vbeam
When redness is the target.
A pulsed-dye laser platform centered on vascular treatment, absorbed preferentially by vascular targets. Considered when a vascular component is contributing meaningfully to the concern — not every red appearance is a vascular target.
- 03
GentleMax Pro
Two wavelengths. Different targets.
Combines two laser wavelengths in one platform. A vascular target, a melanin-related target and other applications are not the same biological problem simply because one platform can reach more than one of them — wavelength selection still follows diagnosis.
- 04
Nordlys
One platform. Multiple clinical jobs.
Nordlys is not one treatment — it's a platform combining several technologies that address different tissue targets. The patient may need one component, a sequence of components, or an entirely different option in this family.
- SWT IPL
Filtered light bands for selected pigmentary and vascular targets, depending on configuration.
- 1550 nm fractional
A non-ablative fractional wavelength used for deeper resurfacing and texture-related applications.
- 1940 nm fractional
A more superficial non-ablative fractional wavelength used for resurfacing and selected benign pigmented lesions.
- 1064 nm Nd:YAG
A wavelength option used for selected vascular and other indicated targets.
- SWT IPL
When another approach may make more sense
Not every visible color is a laser target. If redness, inflammation, texture or another process is contributing more to the appearance than pigment or vascularity themselves, a different treatment family — or a medical evaluation before any procedure — may be more appropriate. Diagnosis, triggers and skin sensitivity can all change the plan.
Before your consultation
Bring what you're seeing, not a device name.
You don't need to know whether it's pigment, vascular, or both. That's what assessment is for.