Tread Vein Treatment

Thread Vein Removal

Thread veins are extremely common and sometimes embarrassing, mostly affecting the face, body and legs. The causes of thread veins are unknown although they may be caused by changes in temperature, smoking, hormonal changes, alcohol and prolonged standing as well as being a possible inherited condition. At Exeter and St Mellion Clinic, we offer both the non surgical techniques of Sclerotherapy and Laser, to combat thread veins.

Laser and IPL - thread vein removal treatments
Lasers and IPL can be used to remove thread veins on the face, body and legs. Laser treatments will remove fine and large thread veins quickly and effectively two or three sessions is usually all that is needed to leave your skin feeling smooth and blemish-free. This is a non invasive treatment for veins 1-3 mm in size. We generally recommend on average 5 treatments.

Sclerotherapy - thread vein removal treatments
Sclerotherapy is also effective in removing thread veins from the body and legs - this is a relatively simple non surgical treatment which only takes 30-40 minutes.

Injection sclerotherapy of these tiny vessels has been shown to the most successful treatment. A dilute irritant solution is injected using a very fine needle. This damages the vessel lining causing it to close off. The body treats this as damaged tissue which is slowly absorbed over about three months.

It is a virtually painless treatments and an improvement of 80-90 % is more usual.

The number of treatment sessions depends on how many areas need to be treated but we generally recommend on average 4 treatments.