Sentences with phrase «destroys skin pigment»

Vitiligo destroys skin pigment, leaving areas of skin looking like they've been bleached white.

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For more serious improvement, lasers such as the VBeam and Excel V emit light that's absorbed by the red pigment in the skin, destroying it underneath the surface.

Laser surgery, which resurfaces skin and destroys highly pigmented cells, is a solution, but expect a lengthy recovery period and a price tag in the thousands of dollars.

This device sends a beam of light that is absorbed by the color brown into the deepest layers of skin, essentially destroying the pigmented cells that created the spot.

Vitiligo is a relatively common skin condition which occurs when melanocytes — pigment cells — are destroyed and skin becomes white

Those who did not destroy them found that within a few hours and days their skin pigment turned to black on their noses, around the mouth and eyes and the pads of their feet and bellies.