Informing patients

This laser hair removal guide's main goal is to answer all your questions on laser hair removal. Nowadays, Switzerland and France are the less equipped countries as for the number of hair removal lasers per inhabitant, very far behind Germany, Great-Britain, and even Spain.

We are also very late as compared to North America and Asia, where laser became part of the culture a dozen years ago already. Main factors: the public's lack of information and still insufficient regulations.

These two factors led to the proliferation of « institutes » and other non medical businesses, which mostly removed money from wallets, and cast doubt on a marvellous technique, now mature. You will understand by reading these few pages how the laser works, and which criteria to take into account in order to select completely serenely the practitioner you will rely on.

If you really think about joining the clan of the people addicted to soft skins, this guide will help you find a laser practitioner, and will enrich your discussions with him. If you have already made your decision, the guide will inform you about the technique, and make you aware of what is necessary to do before, during, and after the interventions.

The laser hair removal technique is now mastered and the different families of devices well integrated. The therapeutic schemes have become stable and you will see that the prices are more affordable.

In order to make this guide, we systematically reviewed the 188 articles published up to today and went back to university to add to our knowledge the scientific contribution of the complex but enthralling laser physics. But a confrontation between theory and practice was necessary to obtain a realistic image of today's laser hair removal. The companionship specific to the medical field enabled us to work with most of the devices present on the market and to share the experience of many of our colleagues - senior laserists.

This confrontation between practice and sciences led us to firmly believe that: a well-led laser hair removal, following well-determined indications always yields good results. This belief is confirmed by the testimony of people who experienced the treatment, most of whom are very happy with the results.

It is important to keep in mind that the number of sessions to reach the desired results varies and that a few failures have been reported, probably due to unspecified indications (history of hormonal imbalance,.), or to a treatment that is not dynamic enough.

From this viewpoint, the recent techniques led to decisive progress. Associated to the laser, they increase the efficacy of the treatment, decrease its total cost, and improve the safety of the intervention. Practitioners who use them and patients who benefit from them are very enthusiastic.

The importance of the different lasers will evolve in the next years, as more and more improvements are made. This guide reports the results established on the basis of an analysis independent from the literature confronted to a large experience. Our conclusions are clearly indicated. You will thus be able to find your way through the maze of advertisements.