Advanced Treatment for Forehead Veins
Minimally invasive solution for prominent veins
About Mini-EVLA - Treatment for vertical forehead veins
Prominent Vertical Forehead Veins
Everyone has veins running vertically down their forehead, draining blood from the scalp back to the heart. However, in most people these veins so not show. They are called the "supratrochlear veins".
In some people, they can get very big, and can bulge when:
- smiling
- exercising
- in the heat
- with alchol
- when lying down or bending forwards
Treatments for Prominent Vertical Forehead Veins
Most doctors and nurses will tell you that there is "nothing that can be done" from these veins. Some will try to treat them by using inappropriate methods:
- pulling them out (phlebectomy or mini-stripping): they grow back
- lasers through the skin: this fails or burns the skin
- foam sclerotherapy: dangerous as this can cause blindness or intractable pain, and the veins often re-open.
Mini-EVLA
In 2021, Prof Mark S Whiteley and Dr Charles Esteves Pereira published the first paper in the world showing how these veins can be ablated using mini-EVLA (mini endovenous laser ablation) - see paper here.
Mark and Charles had both thad the same idea at the same time - to treat these veins in the same way as had shown to be successful with leg varicose veins (EVLA) - but with smaller equipment.
Reference: Pereira CE, Rover CA, Whiteley MS. Endovenous Thermal Ablation of Prominent Central Forehead Veins (Supratrochlear Veins). Dermatol Surg. 2021 Mar 1;47(3):e97-e100.
Contact Us
Please contact us for more information or to book a consultation, face to face or by video.
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Mini-EVLA - Treatment for vertical forehead veins
The Whiteley Clinic, Stirling Road, Guildford, UK
