The number of treatments depends on several factors related to your specific kind of hair and skin.
Most people need five to eight treatments, spaced one to two months apart, although more treatments are occasionally necessary to reach complete hair removal.
Laser/light technology has been proven to create a permanent hair reduction in the number of regrowing hairs following each treatment in most skin types. How much hair you have in the anagen phase at the time of the treatment will dictate the amount of hair loss.
After each laser hair removal treatment:
- There will be a 20 to 30 percent reduction of hair.
- You will notice the hair will still grow for approximately two weeks before it will start to "shed."
At UPMC Hamot Plastic Surgery, we will design a customized laser hair removal treatment program for you, along with an estimate of how many treatments you may need in order to meet your expectations.