If you are a suitable candidate for lasering, you will require a series of treatments over time which is likely to result in the dramatic reduction or removal of the unwanted hair. To get a better idea of what makes an ideal patient and who is likely to find treatment relatively less effective read on.
The north wood clinic carries out laser hair removal treatments using lasers and IPL at their London clinic.
laser hair removal londonHair growth occurs in phases of a growth cycle. Because of this several treatments are required at the start . Each of your hair follicles goes through a growing and resting phases, and the hair follicle is most vulnerable to lasering early in the growing phase.
The number of active follicles and the length of the growth phase varies between patients and individual areas of the body. The first laser treatment will only damage a percentage of the follicles. After a few weeks previously resting follicles break into the growth phase, these can then be lasered and the treatment repeated in about a month. In this way, after 4 - 6 treatments, most of the hair follicles in any particular site can be have had hair growth reduced or eliminated. Thereafter periodic laser hair removal top ups are all that is required.
It is really impossible to tell in advance who will require how many treatments and how long the hair will remain gone.
The best thing to so is go to a clinic with the right equipment with staff who are experienced in getting results with that equipment.
Note: It the UK, it is illegal for a clinic to carry out laser or IPL treatments without being registered with the Healthcare Commission.
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