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Effective treatment for facial thread veins can usually be achieved using one of the following techniques:
- Electrolysis or electrocoagulation
- Intense pulse light (IPL)
- Laser
All of these techniques work by using heat to destroy the blood vessel. We will go into each of these in more detail but before doing so, it is important to note that injecting vessels on the face is not recommended except in very rare conditions.
There are several reasons for this but one of the most important is that the veins in the skin over the nose and cheek area drain through a vein by the eye and go back into the blood vessels around the brain called the cavernous sinus. Injections of drugs into this system can end up causing a clot to form inside these blood vessels in the centre of the brain – a condition called cavernous sinus thrombosis. This can be a very dangerous condition and therefore such injections are very unwise.
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