Getting to the Root of Laser Hair Surgery


LASER hair surgery has been around for a long time and is increasing in popularity. Waxing, threading and plucking body hair are cumbersome, time consuming and worse... not even permanent.

But with laser hair removal treatment you can be rid of your unwanted body hair relatively quickly. And with results permanent or at the very least near permanent.

Not all the unwanted hair follicles will be treated by the laser in one session. So if you choose to go ahead with laser hair removal you will always need multiple sessions.

It's possible that you will still have a small amount of hair growth in the treated body area, but these few hairs are usually acceptable to the person who has undergone treatment.

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 the skin contain melanin, which is a chromophore - colored organic molecules. These absorb the laser's heat and the follicles containing the targeted melanin will eventually burn and be destroyed. It might take one laser pulse or three, but a hair follicle currently producing hair and therefore containing melanin is certainly going to be destroyed by the laser.

Not all follicles can be destroyed in one session since at any given time some will be in a resting phase where no hair is produced. No hair - no melanin!