subject: The Process Involved in Laser Hair Removal [print this page] The Process Involved in Laser Hair Removal
It sounds like a child's riddle. In this case, can we handle being thick and bountiful on one part of our bodies but invisible on another? Can we handle spending billions both to encourage and discourage? Considering hair, it can be disgusting just about any place else but beautiful on our heads. According to one professor of psychology at a Pennsylvania college, it is very complicated. In this case, when you ask people about why they shave, they will tell you that they do because you're supposed to.
It's such a given and this is still true in the 1990s, when all the standards of attractiveness have been questioned except for body hair. In fact, it may be truer than ever as new, high technology methods of getting rid of unwanted hair enter the medical marketplace. During April 1995, the first laser hair removal system was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration and this was when the hair removal market has been in a state of agitation.
Here, the arguments between purveyors of different ways to get rid of hair including electrolysis vs.lasers or lasers vs.different kinds of lasers played out through Web sites and advertisements. Taking this into consideration, the dollars Americans spend to dispatch with hair they deem undesirable were at stake and the estimates run from $2 billion to $5 billion a year. When women use lasers, they do so to get rid of their facial hair and bikini lines while men use them for their simian backs. These are convenient and they save time and this is why people who hate their nubby armpits, regret their hair transplants, or those who want smooth bodies to cut down on wind resistance during sports use lasers.
It is a substantial group of transsexuals in Northern California that wants to achieve various degrees of hairlessness. In terms of medicine, it is becoming ever more market driven and this is why laser hair removal has been a way for dermatologists, cosmetic surgeons, and even spa owners to reach this eager clientele. The doctors finding themselves fielding questions from patients who've read about laser hair removal and want to know if it's worth it are those who have worked with other lasers for nearly 20 years.
One doctor decided to invest in a laser system after thinking about it. He began to offer treatments afterwards. For the entire industry is gearing up for this like you can't believe, he said that this must really be a huge market. In this case, people favor laser hair removal because it causes less pain and takes less time than electrolysis, which kills individual hair follicles with an electric current delivered by a very fine needle. What the proponents of electrolysis said was that their treatment isn't as painful as its reputation holds and that theirs is the only permanent form of hair removal. The principle behind them is the same but different hair removal lasers work differently. Skin waxing with the excess being wiped away is necessary when it comes to the first laser to be approved, manufactured, and heavily marketed. The process does not harm the skin and as the laser passes over it the carbon in the hair follicles are heated and this damages them.
Used by other hair removal systems are long pulse ruby or alexandrite lasers that don't require waxing or a carbon based lotion. Instead, light from the laser is aimed at the skin, passing through it until it strikes pigment in brown or black hair. What happens here is that the light turns to heat causing injury to the hair follicle. It is melanin that you will find in skin and so there are times when lasers are not as effective when it comes to dark skin which may undergo pigmentation changes or for very light skin which may not have enough melanin to start the process.
