Family Doctors of Vicksburg Laser Skin Care

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13320 N. Boulevard
Vicksburg, Michigan 49097
Phone: (269) 649-2012; emergency
Additional Phone: (888) 468-0542
Fax: (269) 649-3752

Welcome to Family Doctors of Vicksburg. We look forward to providing you and your family with the same personal medical care given to area residents for over 85 years. Family Doctors of Vicksburg is dedicated to providing excellent, compassionate medical care. We believe no one should go without necessary medical care, so we seek to provide care to all members of our community. We believe health and illness have biological, social, and spiritual aspects, so we seek to treat the whole person in the context of family and community. We believe we should provide access to the best medical science has to offer, so we have completed rigorous education and training and continue to learn as knowledge advances. We believe the doctor-patient relationship is a unique partnership that can be a powerful agent of healing, so we strive to treat our patients as persons and not as illnesses. In other words, we specialize in you.

NEW! We now offer a new service, Laser Skin Care, that provides many excellent services to help you feel good about how you look. These services include Laser hair Removal, Leg Vein Removal, Photofacials, Removal of Pigmented lesions, and treatment for Acne.

If you live with unwanted hair, you’ve probably tried some of the typical solutions:

1.Shaving is a daily nuisance.
2.Waxing is painful, and only a short-term solution.
3.Electrolysis is effective, but since it only treats one hair follicle at a time, it’s not practical for large areas and is extremely time-consuming.

Pulsed light systems offer a lasting solution for unwanted hair!

1.It’s permanent: Concentrated pulses of light loosen the hair and disable the cells responsible for new hair growth.
2.It’s fast: Small areas, such as the underarms or upper lip, can be treated in 10 minutes or less. Even large areas, like the back or legs, can be treated in under a half hour.
3.It’s comfortable: Various cooling methods keep the light pulses mild and skin-safe, allowing for more comfortable treatments than electrolysis and waxing.
4.Convenient: Unlike waxing, there is no need to let hair grow out between treatments. You can remain hair free all the time.

How does the treatment work?

The Palomar hair removal handpieces emit pulses of light into the hair follicles. The light is absorbed by the pigment in the hair follicles and converted to heat. The heat then loosens the hair and disables the cells responsible for growing new hair.

What body areas can I get treated?

Any area, except around the eyes. The upper lip, face, neck, underarms, bikini line, legs, chest and back can all be treated.

What should I expect after treatment?

Immediately after treatment, you can expect a mild sunburn-like sensation, possibly accompanied by some minor swelling. This usually lasts 2-24 hours, and can be soothed with cold gel or ice packs. The treated hair will continue to appear for 7-30 days post-treatment. This is not new hair growth, but the treated hairs being expelled from the skin.

At any given time, some of your hair is not in a phase of active growth. Therefore, you will need more than one treatment to affect the growth of all your unwanted hair. Typically, several treatments will be necessary to achieve permanent hair reduction.

Does the hair need to be grown out to do the procedure? Since I am embarrassed, I dread having to grow it out before removing it.

No. Unlike with waxing, plucking, and electrolysis, the IPL handpiece targets the hair shaft and hair follicle that lie under the skin. You may remove it by any method that does not "pluck" the hair and hair bulb out. Shaving, depilatory creams, and clipping are all OK.

I'm dark blonde, with light skin and mostly coarse facial hair on lip and chin, but some of the cheek hair is mostly light and fine. Can this be destroyed as well?

Yes and No. IPL targets the melanin or pigment in the hair shaft and follicle and uses this to disperse heat to the cells that cause hair growth. If the pigment is absent, as in gray/silver or very blonde hair, then the procedure may not be efective. The coarse hair women often see on the chin and upper lip does respond better that the fine "peach fuzz" on their cheeks.