Dr Paul Le Grice - Auckland Skin & Laser Centre

Brown Spots and pigmentation

Unwanted brown spots may be brown birthmarks, marks and pigmentation caused by excessive sun damage to the skin or pigmented skin growths. These are usually harmless but may rarely be a type of skin cancer.

 

Treatment

The best treatment for these marks will be recommended, depending on the nature of the mark. Treatment of skin pigmentation caused by sun damage may include a skin care programme and gentle skin peels. Skin growths can be removed by a variety of treatments and the most appropriate treatment will be recommended. Some marks can be removed by freezing them off (cryotherapy). In some situations, the use of broadband light treatment to remove skin pigmentation and gently rejuvenate sun damaged skin, will be the best treatment. Alternatively a gentle microlaserpeel might be best for some skin pigmentation problems. Deeper pigmentation may be progessively faded by gentle fractional laser treatments. Some skin growths may be best removed by precise erbium laser vaporisation while occasionally the best approach to some lesions, particularly if they are skin cancers, is surgery.

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