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Physician's
Skin Solutions, located in Northern California, offers FDA-approved permanent
hair removal technology. With Laser Hair Removal you won't need repeated
shaving, waxing, chemical depilatories or electrolysis. If you have
unwanted or excessive hair, laser hair removal is the solution you have been
waiting for. Our special laser can remove unwanted hair from almost any
area of the body.
Physician's
Skin Solutions uses the LightSheer® Diode Laser which is the world's most
advanced treatment for effective removal of unwanted hair. This new laser
technology eliminates unwanted hair easily and quickly without the hassles and
repeated pain of other hair removal methods. Depending on your needs, most
body areas can be treated with this state-of-the-art technology. The
LightSheer® Diode Laser gives us the freedom to make daily shaving a thing of
the past.
The new, specially designed LightSheer®
Diode Laser effectively removes unwanted, excess hair much faster, more
reliably, and more comfortably than standard long-term methods like electrolysis
and electrothermolysis. To understand how the LightSheer® diode laser works, it
helps to know a little more about how hair grows and how laser light vaporizes
unwanted tissue.
How does hair grow?
Hair forms in a pouch-like structure below the skin called a hair follicle. What
we see as hair is actually the hair shaft, which is the keratinized, hardened
tissue that grows from this follicle.
Humans have more hair follicles per square inch of skin than most higher
primates, including chimpanzees and gorillas. Because most of this hair is fine
and pale (called vellus hair), it usually isn't visible to the naked eye.
Consider this: the forehead has more hair follicles than any other part of the
body. The thicker, fully pigmented hair most people consider "real
hair" is called terminal hair. This hair is found on scalp, eyebrows, legs,
backs, underarms, and genital areas. This is the hair the LightSheer® diode
laser treats.
Everyone's hair grows differently, depending on age, weight, metabolism,
hormones, ethnicity, medications, and other factors. But all hair goes through
three distinct growth phases:

- Active growth phase (called the
anagen phase), which lasts up to several years. At any given time, the
majority (85%) of our body hair is in this phase. During anagen, the hair
has an abundance of melanin.
- Regressive phase (catagen phase),
which lasts about two weeks, during which the hair stops growing but is not
yet shed. About 3 - 4% of our body hair is in this phase at any given time.
- Resting phase (telogen phase), which
lasts 5 - 6 weeks, at the end of which the hair falls out and a new hair
begins to form. Approximately 10-13% of our body hair is in this phase at
any one time.
The LightSheer® diode laser most
effectively disables hair that is in the active growth (anagen) phase.
Because all the hair in a treated area
may not be in the anagen phase, more than one laser treatment may be necessary
to remove the hair that subsequently enters the growth phase.
How does the LightSheer ® diode laser work?
A laser produces a beam of highly concentrated light. Different types of lasers
produce different colors of light.
The light emitted by the LightSheer® diode laser is absorbed by the pigment
(melanin) located in hair follicles (melanin pigments give hair its color) and
hair shaft. The laser pulses for a fraction of a second, just long enough to
vaporize the pigment - disabling several hair follicles at a time to eliminate
or significantly impede the hair's regrowth - but not long enough to damage the
surrounding skin. The LightSheer® diode laser's special contact-cooling
handpiece further protects the epidermis (upper layer of skin). This patented
method of epidermal preservation allows delivery of more laser energy deeper
into the hair follicle.
Additionally, the LightSheer® diode laser is able to treat a broader range of
skin types than most other hair-removal lasers. It is delicate enough for a
woman's fine, sensitive skin and robust enough for a man's beard, back, or arms.
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