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US 5,669,916 AGranted
Method of hair removal
AssigneeThe General Hospital Corporation
InventorRichard Rox Anderson
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Abstract
The invention features a method of removing a hair, involving mechanically or chemically removing the hair to expose the follicle of the hair, and then treating the follicle to inhibit its ability to regenerate a hair. Removing the hair facilitates the uptake of a follicle-inactivating compound and thus allows for long-term inhibition of hair growth.
Claims12
A method of removing a hair from the skin of a mammal, said method comprising
- a) mechanically or chemically removing said hair from its follicle to expose the follicle of said hair, and then
- b) treating said follicle to inhibit its ability to regenerate a hair.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.