Port Wine Stain

Port Wine Stain treatment at Quang Minh Clinic

People still use skin camouflage cream to disguise port wine stain that gives them significant self-confidence. Treatment with laser is also a good option that will lead to variable improvement. A special fine laser can destroy the tiny widened blood vessels. Laser treatment may not clear the port-wine stain completely and repeat treatments are often needed over the years to come.

Questions & Answers

• 1. Effectiveness of laser treatment?

  Treatment works best in young children when the port-wine stain is new and flat. Children as young as two months old can be treated. It works less well in adults who have had a port-wine stain for a number of years, which may have become bumpy and raised. Treatment tends to work best on smaller port-wine stains of the face and less well on the arms and legs. Generally, the paler the port-wine stain, the greater the chance of excellent results.

• 2. How many treatments are needed?

  From 4 to 10 treatments are needed depending on the size. Treatments are given about eight weeks apart.

• 3. Will I experience skin stinging, burn or scar?

  The laser can cause an unpleasant stinging. There may be pain, bruising and swelling over the treated area for a while after each session.

• 4. Cost per treatment?

  Cost per treatment varies depending on size and thickness of the port wine stain. Each treatment might cost from VND 1.000.000 to 2.000.000