Addressing personal aesthetics often ranks among the most popular New Year’s resolutions. With the new year comes the promise of a fresh start, a time to give yourself the gift of a new you.
If you’re struggling with the appearance of varicose veins or the symptoms of venous insufficiency, treating your problem veins may be the way to improve your appearance in 2026. Dr. Clement Banda and the team at MD Vein & Skin Specialists in Columbia, Maryland, recommend three vein treatments that could help get your legs ready for summer.
Venous insufficiency and varicose veins are conditions that affect your legs, causing cosmetic issues that may be embarrassing enough to keep you in long pants year-round. Your veins have a series of valves that prevent blood from flowing backward away from your heart and lungs.
As these valves fail, blood pools, causing vein walls to stretch and, in turn, more valves to fail. When this occurs in the superficial veins of your legs, varicose veins may develop.
While venous insufficiency is a medical problem, varicose veins are often a cosmetic issue, or one with only minor symptoms. Spider veins result from the same causes, producing a less obvious web of veins that can nonetheless cause an uneven, flushed skin tone.
When you develop varicose or spider veins, their appearance may be the most off-putting aspect. However, some treatments can clear up the problem veins, improving the way your legs look, an excellent makeover resolution for the coming year.
Sclerotherapy is an injectable treatment that uses a sclerosant to irritate and close varicose or spider veins. We can use several types of sclerosants.
Liquid sclerosants have the longest history, but they’re rarely used today because foam sclerotherapy is more efficient and reliable. Conventional foam sclerosants are limited to treating veins of a specific size.
Ultrasound-guided sclerotherapy enables treatment of deeper veins, expanding our ability to treat varicosities beyond the superficial level.
While Varithena is technically a sclerosant, it can treat larger veins than traditional sclerotherapy. It’s a foaming sclerosant with United States Food and Drug Administration approval for the treatment of varicose veins.
Larger veins respond well to treatment with laser or radiofrequency heating, a technique called endovenous ablation. It’s a minimally invasive process that heats targeted veins until your body recognizes the damage and begins to remove the varicose tissue.
Ablation treatments are generally reserved for larger veins.
You can have smoother-looking legs in 2026. Contact MD Vein & Skin Specialists by phone or online to make an appointment today.
