Laser Hair Removal with NdYAG 1064nm Laser, Skin Type IV VI

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..