Affiliation:
1. MIRAI Technology Institute, Shiseido Co., Ltd. Yokohama Japan
2. Institute of Geriatrics Tokyo Women's Medical University Tokyo Japan
3. Well Clinic Tokyo Japan
Abstract
AbstractObjectivesThe purpose of this study was to noninvasively confirm the characteristics of the dermal vasculature in patients with solar lentigo (SL) and determine any association with the efficacy of picosecond‐domain laser (PSL) treatment.MethodsThirteen facial SL lesions in 11 Asian female patients were included in this study and evaluated over 12 weeks. An Nd:YAG laser was used at 532 nm and 750 ps. Skin color and morphological structure were evaluated by ANTERA‐3D® and optical coherence tomography (OCT), respectively. To analyze the vascularity in the upper dermis, an OCT angiography (OCTA) algorithm was applied to the OCT data.ResultsAfter PSL treatment, significant improvement in both hyperpigmentation and abnormally thickened epidermis was observed, but the efficacy varied for each lesion. There was a significant correlation between the change in the melanin index due to PSL treatment and preoperative vascular density in the upper dermis.ConclusionsTo the best of our knowledge, this is the first report to demonstrate a correlation between the efficacy of PSL treatment of SL lesions and the vascularity in the upper dermis. Methods to evaluate the vasculature in the upper dermis may be useful for preoperative prediction of the efficacy of PSL treatment for SL lesions.
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