IPL Vs Other Lasers for Permanent Hair Removal?

I would strongly disagree with what you were told (that IPL is better than laser for hair removal). IPL stands for "intense pulsed light". A laser is one wavelength of light, while IPL is a spectrum of wavelengths usually cut off at a specific wavelength with a filter. What does that mean to you as a patient? Probably nothing. IPL and lasers both treat hair using the same principle of selective photothermolysis (where the light selects a certain target, in this case hair, and... more