First, our Syneron laser is FDA approved for “permanent hair reduction.” This isn’t wordplay meant to fool you. The problem is your hair; each individual hair moves through three phases of growth: active growth, transition, and resting. The hairs are only anchored in the follicle during the active growth phase; this is when laser energy can damage the follicle. Every one of the roughly five million hairs on the human body are independently coming and going through the different phases of the growth cycle. The trick is catching as many hairs as possible in the active growth phase. Laser energy doesn’t damage the hair follicles when the hair is in either transition or resting phase.
We’ve found that most of our patients require between 6 to 10 laser hair removal sessions in order to achieve the desired degree of hair reduction. These sessions are usually spaced 4 to 6 weeks apart.