How does IPL hair removal remove ingrown hair?

I was told that the ingrown hair will be removed by either IPL or laser hair removal. I want to know, will IPL hair removal or laser hair removal get rid of ingrown hairs or razor bumps completely? I have a lot of very deep ingrown hairs around my bikini area, so how can IPL or laser remove them when the skin is closed? I want to know how it works. Thank you.

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A: laser hair removal removes hair permanently so it can't grow in

Jonathan Hoenig, MD

Laser hair removal causes the hair follicle to shrink and the hair to fall out. If you do it enough times and at the appropriate energy level, it will shrink the follicle completely so that the hair doesn't grow back after it falls out. If there's no hair in the follicle, it can't become ingrown.

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