This statement is false. 

Not all of the hair on the body is thick enough or has enough color for permanent laser hair removal.  Permanent laser hair removal occurs only when the blood vessel that feeds the hair is damaged enough from the heat of the laser treatment that it no longer functions correctly.  Once the blood vessel to the hair is closed, it stops growing.  This is the only scenario where permanent hair removal is achieved.  The hair can only be heated to the point where the blood vessel is damaged when it has color and volume.  Fine hair with no color does not respond well to laser hair removal, and these fine colorless hairs are the most common on our body.  The hair that disappears most easily in laser hair removal are those hairs with lots of color and density, ie coarse, dark hair.  Medium hair with color responds well also, but fine light colored and/or grey hair does not respond which is why it is never a good idea to go into the laser hair removal program with the idea that 100% of the hair will be removed.

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As the laser hair removal program progresses, the hair that remains is the less colored less coarse hair and for this reason, less and less hair is removed successively after 4 or 5 treatments.  It is a rule of diminishing returns - the more laser hair removal treatments you have had, the less coarse, dark hair that remains and the more difficult it is to continue to get further hair removal.  In our practice the expectation we set is that our patients will achieve somewhere between 70% and 95% hair loss in the laser hair removal program.

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Lori Haney, RN, MEP-C

Certified Medical Laser Safety Officer