Doing It Yourself: Hand held Home use Lasers


You may be interested in trying out an LLLT device, but aren’t willing to put out the time and effort, not to mention the cash, to do LLT in a doctor’s office.

There are now handheld home use lasers that might work for you if this is a therapy you’d like to try but don’t feel like making a heavy time commitment.

Don’t count on saving much cash, though; home use handheld LLLTs cost around $300–$500, not a small chunk of change but less than the several thousand you’d spend for in office treatment. The advantages of the hand-held system are:

Some handheld products emit low level laser when held over your head; theoretically using a comb may deliver the therapy more directly to the scalp. Another handheld system delivers the laser light through multiple clear plastic tips on the end of the instrument that are in direct contact with the scalp.

With this system, 15 separate points of laser light irradiate the scalp. In addition, the floating laser heads of this instrument ensure that the laser light channels conform to the shape of the scalp and head. This direct contact is the main differentiating feature between this machine and the laser comb.

Two of the more popular handheld laser combs are the HairMax LaserComb, which was FDA-cleared to promote hair growth in men with certain types of male pattern balding, and the X-5 hair laser, which conforms to the scalp arch and delivers energy directly at the scalp level after the hair is separated by the prongs.

Although the manufacturers recommend use of the handheld home devices three times a week, it’s not clear what frequency of use is effective, since no evidence has been presented to show the value of either the frequency or the duration of the laser application. Most of the home use lasers emit a beep to let you know when it’s time to move the device to another part of your hair, so you don’t laser one area for too long.

In the one reported study of the handheld LaserComb, 93 percent of the participants (ages 30 to 60) had an increase in the number of terminal (thick) hairs. In the treatment group, the average number of terminal hairs per square centimeter increased by 19 hairs per square centimeter over a six-month period.

For the same period, the number of hairs in the control (placebo) group decreased by an average of 10.6 hairs per square centimeter, so the relative increase with the laser comb was actually 29.4 hairs per square centimeter.

The base hair counts in both groups were 125 hairs per square centimeter. (As a reference, the average non-balding person has approximately 220 hairs per square centimeter.) During the study, patients reported no serious adverse reactions.

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