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Healthy Living: Birthmark Treatment

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For people with port wine stain birthmarks, laser surgery is one way to soften the appearance.

Treatment can be uncomfortable, and in the past some doctors recommended waiting until a child was a few years old and could better tolerate anesthesia.

In Healthy Living, Courtney Hunter shows us how new improvements to laser devices means for some, the earlier the better.

Other treatments have been tried for the treatment of port wine stains, including freezing, surgery and radiation.

Doctors say laser therapy is the only one that destroys the malformed blood vessels without causing damage to the skin.

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