The Process Of Laser Hair Removal

It was during the past few months when residents received two more options for hair removal, one uses laser technology and the other one uses a more advanced form of light treatment. What a family physician in Altoona has been doing for the past several months is laser hair removal. Lasers give off high energy light according to her.

In this case, the light does nothing to the skin but concentrates on the hair to destroy the hair follicle as the light is shone on the skin with hair on it. The aforementioned process is nothing like the tedious and painful electrolysis which puts a needle in each hair follicle and zaps it with an electric current. Only taking a minute to treat an upper lip is laser treatment while with electrolysis, it can take 30 minutes. Per area, two to three treatments are needed in this case. What she commonly does for women include upper lips, chins, underarms, and bikini lines. For men in this case, they get hair removal on necks and backs and to thin out beards.

Since this is not ideal for dark pigmented skin and fine blond hair, to get the results they want some modifications need to be done when it comes to this procedure.

Considering the initial consultation and first session, the cost will be about $200. Easily amounting to $200 for an area on the face and $350 for the bikini line or underarm are the follow up treatments. You can expect fees for larger areas such as the legs or back to be negotiable. What is referred to as photothermolysis is the underlying technology of how physicians go after the target area. Because of the heat that is given off by the light source, hair follicles are destroyed.

Taking light waves into consideration, they have different frequencies similar to radio waves that have different frequencies. When it comes to the machine, it tries to get the correct light frequency for each person, based on the hair color, hair thickness, and skin color, just like someone who chooses different radio stations to listen to. By changing filters in the machine, which is about the size of a stacked apartment size washer dryer combination, the intensity of the light is adjusted for each patient. For the light flash, it lasts about 5/lOOOths of a second and about 30 pulses of light are done during a treatment.

The area hit by the pulse measures 1/2 inch by 1 1/2 inch similar to a stick of gum. Here, thirty of those pulses equal about 20 square inches and so the surgeon can do a lip and chin area or both cheeks in one session. In this case, get two to three treatments per area.