Can You Solve Your Hair Loss Problem With Laser Therapy?

Usually when people associate the words "hair" and "laser", the first thing that comes up is hair removal. Even though laser can certainly be used to remove unwanted hair, it can do more than that. If used properly, it may be able to stimulate hair growth. At the moment, studies are still being conducted on the effectiveness of using laser therapy to cure baldness and there is still not enough data to prove this for sure.

The word "laser" is actually an acronym for light amplification by the stimulated emission of radiation. Albert Einstein came up with the theory of laser and since then many famous scientists have advanced this theory much further and managed to come up with many useful applications. Although laser is considered as a high tech stuff, it is actually not that hard to understand how it works.

If you like to watch science fiction movies, I bet you have seen how laser can be used as a weapon of great destructive power. In reality, laser can do much more than that. Lasers, which are basically thin, intensely focused beams of light that emit a very pure light of one wavelength, can be used for so many purposes nowadays. Along with the rapid advancement in laser technology, more medical procedures incorporate the use of lasers. One of the recent applications is for solving hair loss problem by stimulating hair growth.

Lasers that are used for cosmetic applications usually target specific chromophores (components in the skin that absorb light) in the body. There are three major chromophores that affect your hair: Melanin (can be found in hair follicles and sun spots), Hemoglobin (can be found in blood vessels) and Water (found all around the epidermis and dermis layers of your skin).

For treating medical problems, there are two types of lasers currently available: high or low powered. High-powered lasers emit heat and can be used to cut through and burn tissue. Usually these kind of lasers are used to destroy hair follicles for removing unwanted hair, erase fine lines/wrinkles and target abnormal blood vessels.

On the other hand, low-level lasers do not emit heat. Instead of being used as destructive power, these type of lasers can be used to heal damaged tissue, including for stimulating hair growth. Since you want to know if laser can truly solve your hair loss problems, I am going to focus on low-level laser therapy, which is usually used for stimulating hair growth.

Actually, low-level therapy has been around for a couple of years. This non-invasive technology has been used for many purposes from stimulating the healing of damaged tissue to lessening intense chronic pain. When used in conjunction with stimulating hair growth, scientists can only offer theory, because nobody has come up with a scientific proof. Basically, the premise is that after chromophores absorb the laser light, it will stimulate hair growth by increasing blood and oxygen flow to the balding areas. This, in effect should also stimulate hair follicles at the cellular level and make hair stronger and thicker. Apparently, this therapy will only work if the area that is being targeted already has a little bit of thin hair. Treatments on completely bald area do not seem to show promising results. You should also know that results can take up to 12 months to show up, so you should be patient.

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