Laser hair treatments against baldness are so successful because one of the most embarrassing and scary things for men (and for some women) is hair loss. Losing your hair may generate a loss of self esteem, and of the good mood for living, it can throw you in the deepest depression ever. So one should take it seriously, and in case he is so attached to his hair, should start a hair treatment as early as possible, preferably at the first signs of a possible future baldness.

Sometimes, one would notice that the hairs become thin and weak. Although there is no major hair loss yet, these people should seek medical advice, take vitamins for hair growth and follow an eventual laser hair treatment of rejuvenation. Such treatments are not painful, and they can save your hair from falling down. It is true that they may be expensive, but they are peanuts compared with the money you’d spend on psychologists sessions to treat your depression triggered by going bald.

Unfortunately, no prevention can keep you away from losing hair, because the ailment has genetic bases, and it is due to a decrease of the male hormones generated by the body. Briefly, the body secrets an enzyme which is found in big quantities in hair follicles, and which interacts with testosterone, thus giving birth to a new molecule, called DHT, which causes calvition, by weakening the follicles, thus preventing the hairs from being nourished.

What Is A Laser Hair Growth Treatment?

Laser hair growth treatments are based on exposing the scalp to the light generated by a low level laser, hair treatment which will lead to a stimulation of the follicle, thus to an increase of the blood stream in their region. This affluence of fresh, oxygenated blood increases the nutrients which are driven to the follicles, and further on, to the hairs, strengthening them and helping them grow.

You should know that most of a human being’s hairs are currently in a state of stagnation. This exposure to laser light, determines the hair to exit the stagnation phase and enter the growth phase again, thus leading to more hairs appearing and hair thickening.

Unfortunately, one single laser hair treatment session is not enough to stop the process and reverse the trend. A strong determination and a big budget are needed, as the treatment process involves three to four sessions a week, for at least 6 months, if not one full year.

It sounds funny that the same technology is used for making the hair grow as well as for removing unwanted hair for good, but this is the beauty of laser hair treatments: the results depend on a few parameters, such as the laser wavelength.

This article will try to explain to you the differences between the two types of laser hair treatment:

Laser Hair Treatment For Hair Removal

Some 20 years ago, a handful of scientists were attempting the first experiments with laser epilation. It took them some 10 years of tests, until the first laser hair treatment for hair removal became available to the public. The technology was called IPL, or Intense Pulse Light, which in fact was not based on a real laser, but rather on the Xenon flash lamps radiation, which was coined as phototricholysis.

Laser hair removal treatments work because of a process which is called selective photothermolysis. One of the lasers’ properties is that they can target selectively certain cell types, while leaving the tissues around untouched. As a principle of physics, light is absorbed by dark objects (which explains why wearing dark colored clothes in the sunlight leads to more heating of the body). In laser hair treatment’s case, the dark matter which attracts the light is melanin, the pigment which gives skin its color. Without melanin, our skin and hair would be extremely white, likewise albinos people.

The lasers specialized for hair removal treatments, will target the follicles (the roots of the hairs), damaging only them, and leaving the rest of the skin intact.

Laser Hair Treatment Against Hair Loss

The second type of laser hair treatments is the treatment against hair loss. Researchers are still disputing the causes of baldness, but this didn’t prevent them from developing a few treatments which are FDA approved and which proved to offer results in many alopecia (baldness) cases.

For this kind of hair treatment, low level lasers are used. Put to act directly on the head skin, these lasers produce the “Photo-Biostimulation” of the hair follicles.

Many companies worldwide developed various systems of laser hair rejuvenation treatments. Not all of them are fully approved by medical organisms, nor they are proven to work. Studies are still to be done, in order to prove that laser hair treatments can save a huge number of people from going bald.