You got to be kidding me??? One of my LPA client’s recently had a laser break down during treatment. He stopped treatment immediately and checked the system. It came back with an error code – which was meaningless! So he called me out to have a look at it. The main unit appears… Continue reading Unscrupulous laser suppliers!! Beware…
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“No Pain, No Gain” – hair removal using light energy!
OK! PDF version This is really quite simple! Human thermal/pain receptors (nociceptors) are triggered at around 45 C. Below that temperature you feel heat – above it, and you feel pain. NASA has proved this beyond doubt! So, to achieve permanent, or even ‘semi-permanent’ hair removal you need to apply sufficient heat energy, for a… Continue reading “No Pain, No Gain” – hair removal using light energy!
CE Marking of Lasers & IPLs
Article A very interesting article written by a couple of my colleagues about the important issue of CE Marking of aesthetic lasers and IPL systems. Mike. mike@dermalase.co.uk
Pain relief during laser tattoo removal – a new technique
Article Back in 2012 I carried out a wee experiment to try to speed up the tattoo removal process. I figured that if I compressed the skin, using a glass slide, then everything in the dermis would be a bit closer to the skin surface. Hence, perhaps the whole process might be accelerated a wee… Continue reading Pain relief during laser tattoo removal – a new technique
Q-switched laser removal of tattoos: a clinical and spectroscopic investigation of the mechanism, 1996
via Q-switched laser removal of tattoos: a clinical and spectroscopic investigation of the mechanism | DeepDyve A lot of patients kept asking me why green ink was so difficult to remove with the ruby laser. At the time we didn’t know. So I gathered a bunch of tattoo inks from Terry’s Tattoos in Glasgow and… Continue reading Q-switched laser removal of tattoos: a clinical and spectroscopic investigation of the mechanism, 1996
Variable pulsewidth vascular system for dermatology | (1994) | Gustafsson | Publications | SPIE
via Variable pulsewidth vascular system for dermatology | (1994) | Gustafsson | Publications | Spie This report describes the world’s first IPL system, developed by Morgan Gustafsson in the early 1990s. Back then we didn’t call it IPL – that name came later. Morgan approached me at an ASLMS conference after I gave a… Continue reading Variable pulsewidth vascular system for dermatology | (1994) | Gustafsson | Publications | SPIE
Q-switched ruby laser treatment of benign pigmented lesions in Chinese skin. – PubMed – NCBI
via Q-switched ruby laser treatment of benign pigmented lesions in Chinese skin. – PubMed – NCBI One of the first reports into the use of the Q-switched ruby laser in the treatment of Chinese pigmented lesions in patients in Taiwan. Mike. mike@dermalase.co.uk
Calculation of the clinical parameters to effect removal of Port Wine Stains | (1990) | MJ Murphy | Publications | SPIE
via Calculation of the clinical parameters to effect removal of port wine stains | (1990) | Murphy | Publications | Spie I started doing Monte Carlo and numerical thermal models in 1987 to try and figure out the ‘best’ set of laser parameters to treat PWS vessels. That was a long time ago! Since… Continue reading Calculation of the clinical parameters to effect removal of Port Wine Stains | (1990) | MJ Murphy | Publications | SPIE
Port Wine Stains: optical assessment and practical implementation of treatment | (1990) | MJ Murphy | Publications | SPIE
via Port wine stains: optical assessment and practical implementation of treatment | (1990) | Murphy | Publications | Spie A report I co-authored with some colleagues in Strathclyde University describing our attempts to treat PWS with Candela’s original pulsed dye laser, back in the mid 1980s. We designed a PC-operated scanning system to deliver… Continue reading Port Wine Stains: optical assessment and practical implementation of treatment | (1990) | MJ Murphy | Publications | SPIE
“The Big Freeze” – cryolipolysis and how it works
It’s the ‘latest’ thing out there but is it as easy as it sounds….? Here’s an article I wrote on this topic a couple of years ago. PDF version Mike. mike@dermalase.co.uk
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