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E23 - Before 'IPL', there was 'Supraherence'!!
Terrible name! Thank goodness we dropped it.
Back in 1996 we were developing the world's first IPL system for hair removal. Except, back in 1996 the name 'IPL' had not been coined! We were using a strange expression - "supraherence". I honestly can't remember why we came up with that!!
We had done a short study with our QS ruby laser on the removal of hair following our observation of the loss of hair during tattoo treatments. At that point we had been removing tattoos using this technique for around 14 years in Canniesburn Hospital, Glasgow. It had been developed by my predecessors.
On the left is the first device we built - the SupraLite 2000 (which we called 'Quasimodo'!!!)
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