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The image above shows the ‘live’ and ‘dead’ follicles after one treatment at week 0. In this case, 12 out of a total of 28 follicles have been killed. This is nearly 43% of all follicles.
If we look down the time axis (number of weeks on the left hand side), it becomes very obvious that the next ‘best’ time to treat is at week 8 – at this time all the remaining follicles are back in anagen!
Figure 3: By treating the live follicles at week 8, we can kill them all.
So, in this situation, we can successfully kill ALL the follicles in just two sessions... But.....
And it’s a big but.....
This assumes a 100% efficiency in the treatment. This is very unlikely to occur in the real world.
In the real world, most people are using too low an energy (fluence) or too short a pulse (either because they have not set their equipment properly or it is not sufficiently good quality), or they have not treated the full area or some follicles are dormant. Or all of these!!
There are probably more reasons why 100% efficiency is virtually impossible to hit but I’m watching Shrek as I’m writing this and can’t think of any more...
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