Surgery – Instruments – Light application
Patent
1997-07-25
1999-02-16
Dawson, Glenn K.
Surgery
Instruments
Light application
606131, A61B 1736, A61B 1750
Patent
active
058714804
ABSTRACT:
A device and process for the permanent removal of unwanted human hair. Hair on a section of skin is contaminated with a substance having high absorption of a frequency band of light. The skin is illuminated with light at this frequency band at sufficient intensity and duration to kill the follicles or the skin tissue feeding the hair. Specific embodiments to produce death of the follicles or the skin tissues feeding the hair by heating and by photochemical reaction.
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Dawson Glenn K.
ThermoLase Corporation
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