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Throughout the month of Ramadan, Yabiladi offers you daily health advice. For this twenty-eighth capsule in our “Allô Doc” series, we will discuss with Doctor Abir Alafifi the use of lasers in aesthetic medicine, particularly for hair removal.
Device emitting a particular light, more and more widespread in Morocco, several dermatological centers or even specialists in aesthetics use the laser for the treatment of certain diseases and pathologies.
From ophthalmology to treat myopia to dermatology, its use can vary from superficial wrinkles to the removal of tattoos, including hair removal. But what few people know is that the light emitted by a laser call remains special. It consists of a single wavelength which thus defines the monochromatic character of the laser and its use.
“Each wave can be used to treat a part of the body and it must be differentiated from pulsed light”, explains doctor Abir Alafifi, specialist in aesthetic medicine. “When it penetrates the skin, the laser heals, depending on its wavelength, the desired part,” she adds.
Treatment depends on several factors
The practitioner evokes the use of the laser in hair removal. “When a woman suffering from hyperpilosity comes to perform hair removal sessions, we give her several analyzes to perform to be sure of the origins of this hairiness and whether it is not a tumor”, specifies the doctor.
“There are several laser hair removal techniques, ranging from the alexandrite laser, to the ND-YAG laser or the diode laser, but the attending physician who chooses the type of laser according to the color of the skin and the thickness hairs.”
Abir Alafifi
She points out, by way of example, that the alexandrite laser is only used for white skin and thick black hair. “The other two lasers may require longer sessions. In addition, it is also according to the areas treated, ”she explains.
The face, for example, can require nearly 20 hair removal sessions, “because it is generally a hormonal imbalance that is responsible for it, while there are three phases of hair growth (anagen, catagen , telogen). More laser sessions thus make it possible to touch all the hairs, whatever their growth phase and thus allow an optimal result, she says.
Finally, the practitioner advises to respect the advice of her attending physician, to respect the number of sessions, not to use traditional hair removal between sessions and above all to avoid the sun’s rays.
