What are the advantages over electrolysis?
The main advantage of laser hair removal over electrolysis, is that lasers can treat multiple hair follicles at one time, and no longer required to probe each individual hair follicle, as it required in electrolysis. Laser hair removal is safe and FDA approved. People need an average of 3-6 treatments in laser hair removal for desired results, but in electrolysis it required around one year for good results.
It has been said that: “Removing hair by electrolysis is like mowing grass — one blade at a time!” With electrolysis, the operator inserts a needle into the hair follicle and tries to have the needle tip reach the hair root. The operator then triggers a small electrical charge to disable the hair root. The hair from that follicle is then removed with tweezers. Electrolysis can be an excellent technique for the removal of: small numbers of hairs hairs from areas where it is difficult to use the laser (under the eyebrows, near the eyes, and in the ears and nose.) white and very pale blonde hair (which does not absorb laser light efficiently). I sometimes refer patients for electrolysis, and electrolysis operators sometimes refer patients to me, depending on the needs and wishes of the patient. For example, electrolysis can be useful for white or light colored hairs which do not respond to laser treatment, or if there are only a few dark hairs which need to be removed. Some people who ha
Electrolysis can be an excellent method for treatment of white, red and blonde hair (which do not absorb laser light efficiently), and hair from areas where it is difficult to use the laser such as under the eyebrow. Electrolysis is performed one follicle at a time, proving to be very time consuming for both large and small areas of the body. This makes it a very tedious method of permanent hair removal and a difficult undertaking for some clients. Laser hair removal is non-invasive and rapid with LightSheer Diode lasers as many follicles are treated with each pulse and individual pulses are delivered multiple times per second. LightSheer Diode lasers permanently treat ‘active’ follicles, including those where the hair shaft has not yet reached the surface of the skin, where a follicle has an ingrown hair shaft or where the follicle is not straight up and down. Sometimes a combination of laser hair removal and electrolysis is used in individual target areas, lasering the dark hair foll
With electrolysis, the operator inserts a needle into the hair shaft with the intention of reaching the follicle, then sends a small electrical charge designed to disable the follicle. The operator then removes that particular hair with a tweezer. Hair removal is much faster with a laser as the laser is pulsed about once per second across the surface of the skin. Each “pulse” of laser light disables a large numbers of hair follicles. Electrolysis operators can only treat those hairs that they can see and which they can reach the follicle through the hair shaft. A laser treats any “active” follicle, even if the hair has not yet reached the surface of the skin, or if the hair shaft is not straight.
