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The sun is a welcome sight in Portland, but too much exposure to direct sunlight can cause premature aging, wrinkles, loss of skin elasticity, and brown age spots on the skin. Artificial tanning such as tanning booths and prolonged sun exposure can also cause these problems. Sun damage is also attributed to several types of cancer.
The sun damage that you see on the surface or appear on your skin is damaged from many years ago. It’s prevalent among people today because we didn’t understand the importance of SPF protection for skin years ago.
If you are looking for help with sun-damaged skin in Portland, Aesthetic Medicine offers support through intense pulsed light (IPL) therapy. With the help of our skilled team, you can rejuvenate and restore both the appearance and health of your sun-damaged skin with minimal discomfort and no downtime.
IPL Therapy uses a special handheld laser that delivers light energy into your skin. The laser picks up the darker pigmented areas, providing the power causing the pigment to pull to the surface, which will then slightly scab and slough off. Multiple treatments are required to reduce these dark spots since pulling deeper from the tissue.
IPL Therapy evens out the color and tone of sun-damaged skin. It also improves the skin’s texture, leaving your skin radiant and youthful. Biopsies of patients have shown reversal of inflammation, pigmentation, broken capillaries, and scarring after IPL therapy. All of these benefits are available without downtime, making IPL therapy a popular choice to reverse the signs of sun damage.
Dr. Darm and the team at Aesthetic Medicine use the latest IPL technology, such as Syneron SRA, to target sun-damaged areas on the face, neck, and chest or any other areas needed. These treatments cause minimal discomfort and quickly restore the look of the skin. Some patients may experience minor irritations such as redness and swelling; however, most patients can apply makeup without any signs of treatment after treatment after the swelling has resolved. This can vary depending on the extent of the damage. Each treatment session takes about 45 minutes, and you can return to your normal activities immediately afterward. Most patients need a series of treatments for full results, but the differences are often quite dramatic, and their results are apparent instantly.
If your skin is suffering from sun damage, IPL therapy provides a proven solution to reverse the damage and restore the look of your skin. Schedule a consultation to discuss IPL in Portland with the team at Aesthetic Medicine, and see if you are a candidate for this simple, fast, and effective treatment for sun-damaged skin.
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We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to