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Case study · Laser Treatments
Clearing ingrown hairs along the neckline
Pseudofolliculitis barbae on Fitzpatrick VI skin, treated on the Nd:YAG only, neck alone, beard left intact. The residual marks fade slower than the bumps.
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How the course ran
He had shaved his neck every second day for fifteen years and had razor bumps for most of them. Two rounds of antibiotics from a walk-in clinic had done nothing, because pseudofolliculitis barbae is a mechanical problem before it is an infection: the cut hair curls back and re-enters the skin.
On Fitzpatrick VI skin the alexandrite wavelength is not an option. We patch tested, then treated exclusively with the 1064 nm Nd:YAG at conservative fluences — six sessions six weeks apart — and asked him to clip rather than shave the treated strip of neck between visits.
The photograph is at seven months. The bumps and ingrown hairs are largely resolved. The darker marks they left behind are fading but still visible, and we told him at the outset that those would take longer than the bumps and that laser does not erase them.
He kept his beard along the jaw. We treated the neck only, which is where the problem was.
Individual results vary. Deeper skin tones need the right wavelength and conservative settings, and a course rushed on the wrong wavelength is how deeper skin gets burned.
Individual results vary
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A case study describes one person’s course of treatment. It is not a prediction. Outcomes depend on anatomy, skin type, age, medical history and how closely aftercare is followed, and no treatment we offer is permanent or guaranteed. What a consultation can tell you is whether a treatment is likely to help you — which is where every plan here started.