What to Expect At a Vein Clinic? A Comprehensive Guide to Vein Treatments in Maryland

Maryland Vein Treatment is a state-of-the-art medical center for vein treatment in North Bethesda, Maryland. Our center for vein treatment is led by board-certified, Ivy League-trained vein doctors specializing in cutting-edge, minimally invasive spider vein and varicose vein treatments. If you’re in or around the DC Metro Area, you can find our vein treatment center at 10215 Fernwood Rd, Suite 301, Bethesda, Maryland, just outside Washington, DC, in Silver Spring. If you want to visit a vein treatment center, please schedule an appointment with our vein doctors. 

Maryland Vein Treatment believes vein treatments should be accessible to everyone. We also believe in ensuring complete financial transparency. To that end, we offer free insurance verification to all patients even before the first appointment. When you fill out the insurance paperwork and details on our website, our insurance team will reach out to you. Our insurance concierge will work out the terms and conditions of your insurance coverage, so we can provide a complete overview of your vein treatment cost during your appointment. We encourage you to claim your free insurance verification today.

When you visit our vein treatment center for your appointment, please wear loose-fitting clothes or shorts that reveal your abnormal veins. Our vein doctors will perform a thorough physical examination of your abnormal veins. They will study the location and size of your veins, review your medical history, ask about your symptoms, and determine the likelihood of chronic venous insufficiency, the root cause of most vein problems.

Chronic venous insufficiency is the root cause of most vein problems, including spider veins and varicose veins. Even though vein disease is responsible for most vascular conditions, only a handful of vein doctors run sufficient diagnostic tests. We always diagnose and treat underlying vein disease before treating spider veins and varicose veins, which ensures long-lasting results with a negligible risk of complications or vein disease recurrence.

After the ultrasound diagnosis, the vein doctor will curate a personalized vein treatment plan for you. If you have chronic venous insufficiency, the vein doctor will recommend treatments that remove or seal the diseased saphenous vein responsible for your vein problems. If you don’t have underlying vein disease, you will only need minimally invasive treatments that remove the superficial varicose veins and spider veins, making your skin look smooth and beautiful.

The vein treatment plan will be designed according to your specific diagnosis, the location and size of your abnormal veins, your symptoms, your medical history, and your specific goals. You will also be consulted throughout the vein treatment process. The vein doctor will explain the pros and cons of all the minimally invasive vein treatments, giving you all the information necessary to make an informed decision. We will also consider your insurance coverage possibilities to recommend the ideal vein treatment.

If you have chronic venous insufficiency, your vein treatment may start with one of the following minimally invasive procedures: radiofrequency ablation, endovenous laser ablation, and venaseal. During these procedures, our vein doctors will use thermal energy, laser energy, or medical-grade adhesives to destroy or seal the diseased saphenous vein, rerouting the accumulated blood into healthier leg veins. These procedures treat the root cause of your vein problems.

If you don’t have chronic venous insufficiency or after the primary vein treatment, the vein doctor will recommend minimally invasive procedures for superficial varicose veins and spider veins, such as ambulatory phlebectomy and sclerotherapy. Ambulatory phlebectomy involves the physical extraction of the abnormal varicose veins through small incisions on the skin’s surface. Sclerotherapy involves injecting a sclerosant medicine into spider veins to turn them into hardened scar tissues eventually metabolized by the body.

Our minimally invasive spider vein and varicose vein treatments usually conclude within an hour and involve no downtime. The procedure will conclude within an hour, following which you can resume your daily activities and work. Since there’s no downtime, you can also schedule the treatment during your lunch break and then resume your work. Minimally invasive vein treatments are the perfect lunchtime procedures.

You will have to wear compression stockings for a few weeks after your vein treatment in Maryland. Compression stockings apply pressure on your leg veins to prevent blood from accumulating in the veins, thus minimizing the risk of vein disease recurrence. Compression stockings also help minimize swelling and other post-treatment side effects. The compression stockings will be custom-fitted for your legs.