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Our Protocol
Chapter 3 – Fundamentals of Laser/IPL Hair Removal 2nd Edition
Cooling is Critical!!
We have developed our own protocol for hair removal. This is based on years of experience with both lasers and IPLs. In its most simplistic form, it is:
Pre-cool the target area with ice-packs for at least 2 minutes, and up to 5 minutes (for very dark skin tones)
Set the fluence for the hair depth (check Table 14)
Fire a couple of ‘test’ shots
Ask for pain feedback on a scale of 1 to 10. If this is less than ‘4’, increase the fluence by 1 or 2 J/cm2
Fire another couple of shots and ask again Repeat this process until either
you are satisfied with the fluence level or
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