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DR. WILLIAM HEIMER: Gentle Waves has been a work horse in our clinic. It's simply yellow diode. White diode is the way the light is formed, and it's a flash of yellow light that is placed on the area that we're hopefully effecting the result that we want, either the face or the neck or the chest. And with it we're seeing diminishment of pigmentation; we're seeing building up of collagen and reduction of fine lines and wrinkles, and just improvement in the skin tone. And the way this works is really in a lot of ways almost magical because with 35 seconds of a flashing yellow diode light, we're able to stimulate the cells of the skin to produce more collagen, which is the backbone of the skin, which is what you need to pump up the skin and to make it more youthful in appearance, and at the same time, you're inhibiting an enzyme which breaks down collagen, which is called collagenase. And the fortuitous finding that this flash of yellow light does that is really magic. And by doing 10 to 12 of these treatments, literally 35 seconds, in association with some other simple procedures done in the clinic, you can do an amazing turnaround in the skin without a second of downtime. You can walk in, have the procedure done, walk out, and there's no doubt that your before and after pictures, even with 10 or 12 treatments, will be absolutely amazing.

So in addition to the clear light we have another light which is blue light which we have found to work fantastically on acne. The blue light is a treatment that you receive in the clinic. You lie under the light in a very relaxed way, hopefully bring your i-pod and some really good tunes with you, and you relax for 25 minutes. And the blue light actually selectively kills out the bacteria that causes acne. And the blue light is one of our actually favorite treatments, especially among young people and people who really don't want to have downtime of chemical peels and more aggressive acne treatments. In combination with a Tanda, we're able to do a combination of blue and red light which allows you to both rejuvenate the skin, reduce brown spots, but also treat acne. So teenagers like that a lot because there's little downtime, but the adults love it because, you know, when you're in a bind and you feel a pimple coming, the blue light has been shown to actually reduce the outbreaks. And so it's something you can do at home, highly effective and a nice edge on it, too, the blue light therapy.