RT Book, Section
A1 Ibrahimi, Omar A.
A1 Kilmer, Suzanne L.
A2 Avram, Marc R.
A2 Avram, Mathew M.
A2 Ratner, Désirée
SR Print(0)
ID 1175096557
T1 Laser Hair Removal
T2 Procedural Dermatology
YR 2015
FD 2015
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071795067
LK dermatology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1175096557
RD 2024/04/25
AB The  ability  of  lasers  to  nonspecifically  damage  hair  follicles  was  noted  nearly  50  years  ago  in  the  first  reports  on  the  use  of  lasers  on  human  skin.1,2  It  was  not  until  the  theory  of  selective  photothermolysis  was  proposed  by  Rox  Anderson  and  John  Parrish  at  the  Wellman  Center  for  Photomedicine  at  Harvard  Medical  School,  however,  that  the  concept  of  selectively  targeting  a  particular  chromophore  based  on  its  absorption  spectrum  and  size  was  realized.3  Several  years  later,  this  group  also  reported  one  of  the  first  successful  uses  of  a  normal-mode  ruby  laser  for  long-term  and  permanent  hair  removal.4,5