Is There Such A Thing As Too Many Laser Treatments? - SW1 Clinic (2024)

FAQs

What happens if you do laser too frequently? ›

If you treat the area in every 2 weeks, you are simply treating too soon and essentially just shooting heat against the skin, but not destroying anything. So you should definitely not to laser in every 2 weeks. Not mention undergoing laser too frequently can lead to skin irritation, burns, or other complications.

Not only by having too many session in a short period of time, but even by overlapping the same area during a single session. Overdoing laser hair removal can result in skin irritation, redness, and swelling. This can happen if the skin is exposed to too much laser energy, causing damage to the surrounding skin tissue.

Treating too often or using too much laser power can result in reduced healing.

One of the most common tell-tale signs of too much laser is super-sensitive, red skin. If you overdo lasering, your skin might not get the time to recover and become more sensitive, leading to other broader issues such as pigmentation.

The human body is vulnerable to the output of certain lasers, and under certain circ*mstances, exposure can result in damage to the eye and skin. Research relating to injury thresholds of the eye and skin has been carried out in order to understand the biological hazards of laser radiation.

It is important to wait several weeks between sessions for numerous reasons. First, the laser can only target the extra pigmentation present in active hair follicles. However, only some of the hair follicles in a given area of concern are active at any given time.

Most patients can have laser hair removal once every 4 to 6 weeks. Your dermatologist will tell you when it is safe to have another treatment. Most patients see some hair regrowth. Your dermatologist can tell you when you can safely have laser treatments to maintain the results.

For very sensitive areas, it is important not to exceed 100 mW/cm2. If the power density and/or the dose is exceeded, the laser loses its otherwise positive effect and may make the tissue more irritated than it already was, with unnecessary pain as a result.

Although every person is different and results per session will vary, there are some general standards you can expect from the laser hair removal process. Typically, laser hair removal sessions are scheduled about 6 weeks apart and it can take between 4 and 8 treatments for optimal results.

Laser therapy can result in misdirected or excessively intense burns, bleeding from the choriocapillaris, damage to macular and other ocular structures, and breaks in Bruch's membrane.

What can go wrong with laser treatment? ›

Laser therapy is basically administering controlled heat to either the dermis or epidermis layers of the skin. When the equipment is faulty or the practitioner is not experienced, there is a risk of burns to the facial surface. If the incorrect method of laser treatment is used, scarring may also result.

Repeated exposure to relatively low powered lasers, or from a single exposure to medium powered lasers may cause long term damage to sight or minor damage to skin. Exposure to high level lasers may cause depigmentation, severe burns and possible damage to underlying organs.

The major danger of laser light is hazards from beams entering the eye. The eye is the organ most sensitive to light. Just as a magnifying glass can be used to focus the sun and burn wood, the lens in the human eye focuses the laser beam into a tiny spot than can burn the retina.

There's a limit to the intensity a laser can reach: the energy over time on an area. That's not a fundamental limit, but rather a practical limitation set by the materials used in the laser setup itself.

Laser resurfacing can lead to a bacterial, viral or fungal infection. The most common infection is a flare-up of the herpes virus — the virus that causes cold sores. In most cases, the herpes virus is already present but dormant in the skin. Changes in skin color.

Sometimes we hear that customers are using our 4X Hair Removal Laser every day, thinking that doing so will speed up the results. Unfortunately, using our hair removal device daily will not do anything but waste the number of laser pulses contained within the laser.

The second reason for downtime between treatment sessions is that your skin needs time to heal after being exposed to laser-induced trauma. Undergoing another session before your skin is properly healed could result in the development of skin irritation, open wounds, skin discoloration, and permanent scarring.

As power increases above five milliwatts, the time margin for safe exposure decreases and permanent eye and skin damage can occur quickly. However, the output power of laser pointers is not immediately apparent to the user.