Laser Hair Restoration

Laser hair restoration is the modern way to replace lost hair. Laser hair restoration denotes a selection of treatments that all use laser light to promote the existing hair follicles to become worthwhile again. The Laser Luce LDS 100 is one example of this sort of application that has shown some good results in clinical trials. Some of these trials have been done on a clinical basis using controls involving comparisons with placebo treatments. Most trials use a 6 month baseline to examine their effectiveness. The LDS trials have results of treatments prolonging up to 1 year.

Laser hair restoration treatments all actuate low level power lasers at particular repetitions of light. It is the frequency or wavelength that gives the characteristics of each treatment. Laser Luceuses laser light in the Infra red range of light wavelength. The power is strategic in terms of the laser light as well. Larger power lasers are used in companies to slice metals such as steel sheets. It is important to understand that the laser light in such hair treatment equipments is of such a small power that it will not even inflame the skin let alone slice into it.

The infra red in the LDS 100 treatment works by triggering the skin cells in the head and especially those that are part of the hair follicles. At the cellular level it has been shown that respiration is promoted making the cells more active. Cell membranes get more active in the transfer of mineral ions across them. The making of proteins is activated at the DNA level and metabolic activity is promoted. The increased movement across membranes seems to allow these conditions to be communicated from one cell to another. At the tissue level all this new activity stimulates the spread of the blood capillary system connecting the skin cells. The total result of all this greater activity is that the communication of oxygen and food to the hair follicles is greatly increased. It is thought that this can cause hair follicles, which have started to wither away, to liven up and start to make healthy hair once again. Hair production is therefore urged and there should be an elevation in the level of hair and the over all thickness. Continued treatment can maintain the hair growth that has been made.

For the patient the treatment couldn’t be simpler. It involves sitting under a device shaped like a dome. The inside of the dome is covered in special diodes that produce the laser light. These flash regularly illuminating the scalp with the laser light. The skin takes up the light, which activates the hair follicles. During the treatment there is no pain and the client can study a news paper to pass the time. At the end of the procedure the client doesn’t have to recover and can go home right away.

Clinical trials have to prove if new hair has been made and that the procedure being tested is the cause of the results seen. The use of people taking a placebo treatment is the method used to make sure that the laser procedure is the causative agent. These people use the same treatment but no LDS 100 is actually used. Hair counts, before and after photographs and patient self assessment are methods used to find out the amount of hair re-growth. Data from recent trials have shown that Laser Luce hair counts increased over a 6 month period and that these results were maintained over the next 6 month period. In contrast, those using the placebo made sure the natural loss of hair that you would expect. The results of photographic records show that the peak of hair restoration takes place between 6 and 12 months of treatment.

Laser hair restoration using the Laser Luce treatment offers a pain free way for men and women to regain hair that has been lost. The results of tests have shown that the laser light not only stimulates new hair but then goes on to maintain it by providing the optimum conditions for the hair follicles to continue.