so I would use 1064 long pulse wavelength
in the treatment of dark skin hair removal.
You know if your gonna do a good job in hair removal now you need to be
able to treat
all skin types well and many times people try to get one system and make it
work but 1064
is really the best wavelength for skin type 4, 5 and 6.
I also would use it in a fair skinned person with course dark hair.
So in your laser manual there are setting
hair removal for thick hair or thin hair and brown hair versus black hair.
Usually with a person's first laser treatment for hair removal you wanna
start with the settings for
thick hair and as you move on to subsequent treatments the hairs that you'll
be treating get thinner and thinner so you'll change your settings to the
thinner hair settings. With the thick hair settings because
the thick hair has a larger diameter
you want to use a longer pulse duration so that the energy is delivered over a
longer period of time
versus a short energy or short
pulsteration where you're delivering the energy too quickly.
With laser hair removal treatments you always wanna use some kinda cooling
so we have the Zimmer cold air blower connected to our hand piece here
so that the same time of the treatment there's also cold air blowing onto the
skin
and the cooling is for two reasons one for patient comfort
but two more importantly is to protect the surrounding tissue in other words
the skin or the epidermis
that surrounds the hair follicles that we're treating.
So as we do the treatment I'm gonna cover the entire surface area
of the skin that we want to treat a little bit of overlapping is OK
but generally speaking overlapping is not necessary
The clinical endpoint to look for with laser hair removal is a little bit aerothema
which we see here as well as some parry folicular edema
which is just a little bit of swelling directly around the hair follicles
and thats very normal and actually shows a great result.
Also laser hair removal for Fitzpatrick
types four five and six can actually be more painful than laser hair removal for
Fitzpatrick
types 1, 2 or 3 and that's just due to the amount of pigment that
in darker skin colors and that's very normal as well.
So Grant how does your skin feel after the treatment? It feels good.
Does it feel warm at all? A little bit but not too bad.
Okay so a little bit of heat sensation like a mild sunburn is natural and
normal
that usually last about two to three hours and then it should dissipate. If it
bothersome or uncomfortable you can take some Tylenol or some ibuprofen to help
with that
you can also put ice packs on your skin to help with that as well.
Your next treatment should be in roughly six weeks or so
and then you can also use any of your regular
products for instance when you shower wash your face with soap
that's fine and any aftershaves or lotions that you normally put on your face is totally okay
to use as well
but you do want to use a good spf on your skin
for any time you're in the Sun for good sun protection after having a laser
treatment. Okay thanks so much for coming in.
Thank you.