Hair Removal Laser Surgery

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If you are reading this, you have no doubt already heard about laser hair removal surgery. The treatment has been around for a long, long time and it's not going anywhere anytime soon. As more and more people hear about it, more and more people are anxious to undergo the treatment. People are tired of having to spend their valuable time on waxing, threading and plucking their body hair. These methods are cumbersome, time consuming and worse... not even permanent!

But with laser hair removal treatment, you can get rid of your unwanted body hair relatively quickly. And the results will be permanent, or at the very least near permanent. It's possible that you will still have a tiny bit of hair growth in the treated body area. But these few hairs that have survived the laser treatment are usually acceptable to the person who has undergone treatment. If you choose to go ahead with laser hair removal, you will always need multiple sessions. Not all the hair follicles you want to get rid of will be treated by the laser in just one single sessions. It goes without saying that the number of sessions will impact the laser hair removal pricing.

Laser Hair Removal Surgery

So how exactly does laser hair removal surgery work? The whole concept rests on the idea that colored substances will absorb heat. If you heat up these colored substances enough, they will eventually burn and be destroyed. The hair follicles under your skin contain melanin, which is a chromophore. Chromophores are colored organic molecules. These molecules will absorb the laser's heat really well. The hair follicles that contain the melanin that is targetted, will eventually burn and be destroyed. It might take one laser pulse, it might take three. But a hair follicle that is currently producing hair and therefore contains melanin, is certainly going to be destroyed by the laser.

Earlier I mentioned that not all follicles can be destroyed in one session. The reason for this is that at any given time, some of your follicles are going to be in a resting phase where no hair is produced. If no hair is produced, the follicle contains no melanin. This means the follicle is invisible to the doctor's eye. And even if it the doctor knew where it was, the laser still couldn't target it. No chromophores means the laser can't produce intense heat in a very targetted and local area.

The reason why the laser can target a very specific area, is because it penetrates your skin and the underlying tissue just as long until it encounters a hair follicle's melanin. In the hands of a qualified person, a hand-held laser hair removal device can work wonders!