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Paradoxical hair growth after Diode laser hair removal

Have anyone of you come across this complication of Diode laser hair removal?? how to prevent it?? who are more likely to get this complication?

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Permalink Reply by jyothy.k on July 20, 2011 at 11:53pm

i am dr.jyothy here.i have come across this rare complication .its supposed to be due to te stimulation of air growth by suboptimal fluence .so treating patients with optimal parameters will elp to avoid this paradox.moreover ideal patient should be selected for treatmentas this is seen commonly in patients with finer hairs.

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Permalink Reply by Susan Huang on July 23, 2011 at 12:57pm

I've heard of this happening. Seems like this has been reported in the literature too as a rare complication. Bernstein EF. Hair growth induced by diode laser treatment. Derm Surg. 2005 May; 31(5) 584-6.

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Permalink Reply by santosh rathod on July 24, 2011 at 2:50am

yes, i am aware of few such case reports and practically more related with diode laser hair removal...as jyothi above has said.. seems to be the mechanism of such hair growth... treating very fine hair or vellus hair with diode will result in such complication