VISIA® Skin Analysis
Posted by The Naderi Center
Medically reviewed by Shervin Naderi, MD, FACS, double board-certified facial plastic surgeon
The Benefits of VISIA® Skin Analysis
VISIA® Skin Analysis is an imaging system that photographs your skin in detail and shows problems that are often invisible to the naked eye, such as sun damage below the surface. Your provider uses what it finds to plan your treatment and to measure how your skin responds over time.
Expected Results after a VISIA® Analysis
- Better identification of red and brown spots
- Visualization of UV damage not visible to naked eye
- Identification of wrinkles and fine lines
- Visualization of skin texture irregularities
- Determination of skin age relative to actual age
- Meaningful comparisons of skin changes with time
Ideal Candidate for VISIA®Skin Analysis
Good candidates for VISIA® skin analysis
- Want to correctly identify and quantify skin tone, texture, and pigmentation problems
- Want to visually and accurately compare progression and improvement of skin with skincare treatments
The VISIA® Visual Analysis Technique
VISIA® visual analysis shows us the problem areas of your skin, so we can build an effective skincare regimen and track how your skin improves. The findings become part of a fully customized treatment plan. A traditional hands-on skin exam is still very reliable, but it can’t predict how your skin will age or show damage in the deeper layers of the dermis.
Spots
VISIA® identifies red or brown skin marks that stand out based on the color of the background skin tone. Spots can be signs of skin damage, hyperpigmentation, freckling, melasma and other photo damage. Most spots can be seen in a regular skin exam, but VISIA® captures them without the interference that ordinary camera lighting introduces.
Wrinkles
Pores
Skin pores are small openings, usually occupied by hair follicles, that are found all over the body. Pores are responsible for releasing sebum, the body’s natural moisturizer. When pores overproduce sebum or become clogged, they enlarge and can appear black. A VISIA® analysis can identify pores as well as demonstrate how certain skincare products and treatments are helping to reduce pore size.
Skin Texture
Photodamage or UV Damage
Porphyrins
The VISIA® Quantitative Analysis
Advanced Aging Simulation
Eyelash Analysis
The VISIA® analysis also includes a module to perform eyelash analysis. It gives both numbers and images, which helps when you are treating your lashes to improve their number, length and thickness.
Age Percentile Scores
Using the world’s largest skin feature database, VISIA® grades your skin against other people of the same age group and skin type. This patented comparison looks at wrinkles, pores, UV spots, red areas, texture, porphyrins and brown spots to estimate your skin age.
VISIA® combines these scores into a “True Skin Age” that you can compare with your actual age. Ideally, your True Skin Age is younger than your real age. If it isn’t, most of the damage can be improved with the right treatment plan, and our physicians and licensed aestheticians will put that plan together for you.
Testimonial
“I came to see their aesthetician with lots of sundamage on my skin from my sun worshipping days. She started me on BBL treatments and an at home maintenance program. After 2 treatments I can already tell a big difference. She uses the Visia analysis to look at my skin each time and the sundamage under my skin is much less visible!”
Pomiranian
Cost of VISIA® Skin analysis
At The Naderi Center, every patient starting a skincare treatment plan gets a VISIA® skin analysis at no extra cost. It is done during the skincare consultation so your provider can see and measure the areas of your skin that need work.
Preparing for your VISIA® Skin Analysis
Please cleanse your face with your normal cleanser one hour prior to arriving to your appointment. This will ensure that you will have an accurate reading for your porphyrins and red areas. If you cleanse too close to your treatment time, your reading will be slightly off. Please wear a dark shirt and do not wear any facial jewelry during the appointment.
If you are on a skincare regimen, we recommend a follow-up VISIA® analysis every month. After a laser treatment or a peel, the follow-up analysis is usually done at 90 days.
VISIA® Skin Analysis at The Naderi Center
Our doctors and aestheticians at The Naderi Center use VISIA® regularly, both to decide which treatments make sense for your skin and to show you, in measured images, how it is improving.
Call 703-481-0002 to schedule your VISIA Skin analysis consultation or contact us online.
Patient Financing
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Monthly payment plans for surgery and treatments, including 0% APR options for qualifying patients. Checking whether you qualify won’t affect your credit score.
See the Doctor
Questions about what you just read? Ask our doctors in person. Book a consultation in Reston or Chevy Chase, or start with a virtual consultation from home.
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Call Reston (703) 481-0002 or Chevy Chase (301) 222-2020.
VISIA® Skin Analysis FAQs
What VISIA® Skin Analysis office is near me?
If you live in Virginia or Maryland, The Naderi Center for Plastic Surgery and Dermatology offers VISIA® Skin Analysis among its services. For a full list of services, please visit our Locations page.