Last update – 29.1.23
Below are links to my blog posts…
Laser/IPL Hair Removal
Fundamentals of Laser/IPL Hair Removal – online now!
Hair Removal – Why is it painful?
Why are laser/IPL hair removal treatments painful? And how do we minimise it?
“I’ve burnt my patient!!” With IPL treatments, that is precisely what we are tying to do…
What are the threshold (minimum) fluences needed to ensure successful hair removal?
How Many Laser/IPL Hair Removal Sessions do I need to get a Good Result?
The Hair Growth Cycle & Laser/IPL Treatments. When is the ‘best’ time to treat?
Laser/IPL hair removal. How long should we leave between treatments? It’s definitely NOT six weeks…
What is the ‘best’ interval between hair removal sessions (after treatment by lasers or IPLs)? Part 2.
More on the ‘best’ intervals between laser/IPL hair removal sessions…
How to apply the ‘SHR’ and ‘stamping’ techniques properly during hair removal – my videos
Hair removal using Diode lasers vs Nd:YAG, Alex lasers & IPLs
Applying the SHR technique properly to remove hair…
What are the three most important factors in laser/IPL hair removal?
It is impossible to ‘over-cool’ the skin when treating hair with lasers or IPLs
IPL Hair Removal – How to achieve good results, from an expert – Marlon!
Why we should NOT reduce the fluence when treating darker skins!!!
What is the risk of ‘burning’ the skin with a laser or IPL?
Calculating the optimum intervals between hair removal sessions.
How Many Laser/IPL Hair Removal Sessions do I need to get a Good Result?
What is the key to success with laser/IPL treatments?
Not all hair removal lasers and IPLs are the same!!
Laser/IPL Hair Removal – plume and precautions!!!
Laser/IPL Hair Removal – How many follicles do we kill each treatment?
“The hairs grow back after the treatment…”
The ‘best’ way to cool the skin during laser/IPL treatments
Why do so many laser/IPL hair removal treatments fail?
Thick and thin hair – how much light energy do they actually absorb during photothermal treatments?
“I’m scared to use my laser/IPL.” Why?
Calibrating an IPL device
Which is better – laser or IPL hair removal?
Choosing the appropriate IPL filter
Are you getting the best out of your IPL system? Most people don’t….
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Laser Tattoo Removal
BMLA 2021 – My presentation – Is laser tattoo removal a ‘steam-driven’ process?
What colour is that tattoo?
Laser Tattoo Removal – wavelengths and anisotropy
Tattoo ink colours, absorptions and fluences…
The WRONG way to do laser tattoo removal!
Picosecond vs Nanosecond Laser Tattoo Removal: which is better?
My first published paper…. on laser tattoo removal, in 1990
Chapter 2 – Fundamentals of Laser Tattoo Removal
Tattoo removed in just 4 sessions using a QS Nd:YAG at 1064nm
How long should you leave between laser tattoo removal treatments?
What exactly is ‘frosting’ in laser tattoo removal?
The world’s FIRST ever commercial laser tattoo patient…
Q-switches: Passive vs Active?
Chasing the ‘crack’ in laser tattoo treatments! Is this right?
The world’s first promo video for a Q-switched tattoo removal laser
Single or Double Rod Nd:YAG Lasers?
New publication in ‘Lasers in Surgery and Medicine’
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Removal of blood vessels by lasers and IPLs
Treating blood vessels with an IPL
Treating nasal thread veins with an IPL
New IPL Masking Technique
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Physics & Biophysics
How can there be more fluence inside the skin than is applied at the surface???
Thermal Relaxation Time – The Flaw in Selective Photothermolysis
How much light energy actually emerges from IPL filters and reaches the skin surface?
Calibrating your laser – making sense of the numbers…
Selective Photothermolysis – an in-depth explanation
Thermal Relaxation Time – what is wrong with it?
More on Thermal Relaxation Times
Laser energy, energy density, fluence, leprechauns and star bursts……
How strongly are different laser wavelengths absorbed in melanin and blood?
How strongly do blood and melanin absorb light energy and how does this affect laser/IPL treatments?
De-mystifying the physics jargon behind light-based treatments
The Fitzpatrick Skin Scale – What is wrong with this idea???
Laser-IPL Penetration Depth – a more useful definition
A ‘Brief Guide’ to some of the more important terms used in medical/aesthetic laser/IPL treatments
How long does tissue take to be damaged by heat?
Light penetration into skin and the subsequent temperature rise
Back-scattered light from the skin is much more than we think…
What is it like to ‘sit’ on a photon and be fired into the skin?
Laser spot size – how it changes with distance from the target…
IPL filters
What is ‘energy density’ or ‘fluence’?
Experiments with India ink and a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser
Laser Safety Glasses – Are you safe?
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MasterClasses
Masterclass – Laser Tattoo Removal & Laser/IPL Treatment of Hair/Vessels/Pigmentation/Acne
MasterClass interview – Claire Louise
MasterClass interview – Paul
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Misc.
Purchasing our book chapters
Finally… Our laser/IPL book is in hardback, printed form…
Where do photons go in the skin?
Laser/IPL Plume – Aesthetic Journal
Carbon Facial treatment with the QS Nd:YAG laser
My concerns in today’s aesthetic industry…
All our animations, videos and pdfs….
My papers and articles…
How do viruses, and laser plume, spread in the air…?
Plume Control in Clinics – Article in the ‘Journal of Aesthetic Nursing’
Is your clinic air safe? How to remove contamination.
My research in pain relief and wound healing
Electromagnetic and audio human perceptions of this universe
My history in lasers and IPLs and other stuff…
From the very, very small to the very, very big….
Before ‘IPL’, there was ‘Supraherence’!!
Beware your patient paperwork
How long have you actually treated patients/clients with lasers?
My ‘Hole in a Stick’ technique…
What is your weight on Mars? Or other planets???
How long is a beam of laser light?
James Clerk Maxwell – a real genius
Association of Laser Safety Professionals
Flying fragments
How much energy does it take to heat a cup of coffee or tea?
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More later folks……
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