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Article: Hair removal system destroys hair follicles
- Article from:
- Dermatology Times
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
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New York - A study by investigators at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and Duke University Medical Center confirmed the EpiLight Hair Removal System effectively destroys hair follicles.
Study participants, numbering in the thousands over a three-year span, experienced no significant hair regrowth after 20 months, said Neil S. Sadick, M.D., lead author of the study and a practicing dermatologist in New York. With more than two years of followup, hair removal efficiency was found to be 68 percent after an average of three treatments per patient.
The difference with the EpiLight broad spectrum flashlamp vs. other lasers on the market is that is has a broader spectrum of wavelength, ...