Permanent hair removal using optical pulses
AssigneeThe General Hospital Corporation
InventorsR. Rox Anderson, Melanie Grossman, William Farinelli
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for simultaneously removing multiple hair follicles from a skin region of a patient. The method includes the step of illuminating the hair follicles with a large-area, optical radiation field by way of a transparent contact device proximal to the skin region. This allows portions of the hair follicles to be heated and then removed, while the surrounding skin region is left relatively free of injury.
Claims22
A method of simultaneously removing multiple hairs, each of which is in a corresponding follicle, from a skin region of a patient, said method comprising illuminating the hairs and follicles with a large-area optical radiation field delivered by a transparent device in contact with the skin region, wherein said illuminating heats the hairs and follicles so that the hairs are removed while leaving the skin region substantially free of injury.
A hair-removal device for simultaneously removing multiple hairs, each of which is in a corresponding follicle, from a skin region of a patient, comprising:
- means for generating optical radiation;
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- an irradiating unit including a contact device comprising a large-area, optically transparent apparatus having a surface shaped to contact said skin region, said contact device receiving radiation from said means for generating and then delivering the radiation to the skin region of the patient, including the hairs and follicles in said skin region, through said surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.