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Blue light therapy acne treatment machines. helpful or just a gimmick?
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Acne treatments: Photodynamic therapy using a topical sensitizing agent and red or blue light can certainly help acne. Non-prescription blue-light devices can possibly help but they probably work only for some of the less severe acne cases.
Answered 3/25/2012
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