Operating flow of IPL

a. Confirming the treatment time and ask the patient to fill the register, and then clean his/her face;

b. After cleaning face, cover the patient eyes with a humid cotton sheet or paper towel, turn on the apparatus and confirm the water circulation is in a right way;

c. Cleanly shave off the hair on treatment part; if shrink pores, clean the pores firstly;

d. Smear condensation glue about 2mm in thickness on the patient’s either side of his/her face; adjust parameters in proper value;

e. After adjustment, hold light head, which should be downwards; shoot in the air two times; have an experiment on normal skin to see whether there is change and ask for the patient’s feelings;

f. If treatment part does not become red and there is no feeling of heat and sting, increase the energy. The increased value shall not be more than 2J every time. Shooting the light two times every time after adjusting the energy and one light spot should be lapped at the location of 1/3 of the other light spot. In this situation, it is normal that the treatment part is reddish for 3~5 minutes. It is at the best if the patient feels stinging and heated.

g. Operating on the two cheeks firstly; when it is the turn for forehead and circumference of mouth, the energy value should be reduced by 10%; When to treat canthus and if it does not become red, another one or two operations can be done;

h. Confirm the effect after the first operation. If not satisfying, another 1~2 operations can be done after the red and heat fade away, and then turn the apparatus off;

i. Keep the condensation glue on face for 20 minutes and then wash it away.