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Search for laser hair loss treatment and you will find caps, helmets, combs and headbands. Most of
them promise regrowth from your sofa.
Then you will find clinics offering something that costs a lot more and looks nothing like a hat.
These are not the same category of thing. The confusion is why many people write off laser
altogether.
Power, and what the light does.
The caps and combs you can buy use low level light therapy. The light is gentle and does not break
the skin. The theory is that it nudges the follicle to remain in its growing phase longer.
Sessions are frequent and results are subtle where they happen. Consistency over months is the whole
game.
A clinical fractional laser is a different tool. It creates small, precise channels in the scalp, and
the response to that controlled injury is the point.
The body repairs the area. Blood supply increases, and the follicles in that neighbourhood get a more
active environment to work in.
We use the Lumenis FoLix, a fractional laser built for the scalp.
Here is the plain split, and it is the same split as every other non-surgical approach.
On a follicle that is alive but underperforming, laser treatment improves the conditions it works
in. Hairs that came through fine and short have a better chance of coming through thicker. On a
thinning crown that can be a visible difference.
On a follicle that has shut down, no. Nothing shone at your scalp restarts a follicle that closed
years ago.
Skin that has been smooth and bare for a decade is not a laser problem. Anyone promising regrowth
there, without looking at your scalp, is not describing a treatment.
It has regulatory clearance on both sides of the border.
Health Canada cleared it in March 2025. That is the one that counts for a clinic here. It also
has FDA clearance from June 2024.
That tells you the device went through a review process. It does not tell you it will work on your
scalp, and no clearance ever does. That part comes down to what your follicles are doing.
The scalp gets sectioned and worked through methodically. It is not a long appointment.
Most people describe warmth and a series of quick sensations instead of pain. The scalp can feel
tender afterwards, similar to how it feels after a tight ponytail, and that settles.
You go home the same day. There is no bandaging and nothing to hide.
It is a course, not a single visit. One session is not a treatment.
Longer than you want, and the reason is biology.
Hair grows on a cycle. Whatever happens at the follicle has to work up through that cycle before it
appears above the skin. Judging this at six weeks tells you almost nothing.
Take a photo at the start. Same light, same angle, same parting, then repeat it. People are bad
at judging their own hair over months, in both directions, and a photo settles what memory cannot.
Often the answer is not either one alone.
They work on different parts of the same problem. Laser changes the environment around the follicle.
PRP delivers concentrated platelets from your own blood into that area. Microneedling does something
similar mechanically.
Which combination suits you depends on what your scalp is doing and what you have tried. That is an
assessment, not an article.
Anyone whose thinning has a medical cause that nobody has looked at. Thyroid problems, iron levels
and several medications all cause hair loss. Treating the scalp while ignoring the cause is
expensive.
Anyone with an active scalp condition, infection or inflammation in the area.
Anyone expecting a bare scalp to fill in.
If your hair is thinning and you want to know whether laser suits you, book an assessment. The useful
step is having someone look at the scalp and say what stage it is at.
Here is what is involved with laser hair restoration in London, Ontario.
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