October 02, 2003
Sona Laser Center: Laser Hair Removal for the 21^st Century

Legends, stories and traditions suggest that waxing body hair, with the stick and yank method, has been around for thousands of years. History states that Egyptian bridal rituals included a mixing of sugar, oil, and lime juice, kneading it into a paste, then smearing the honey-like substance over the women’s flesh, tearing body hairs out with repeated applications. Hair removal became a must in the early 1900s, when the Gillette Company, attempting to expand its consumer base, began advertising bare underarms as hygienic. A couple decades later, legs saw the light of day as flappers began wearing, ankle-baring skirts and showy leg accoutrements, such as silk stockings, which worked better with clean-shaven legs. Fortunately, in this age we have more effective and less painful procedures for hair removal including laser hair removal.

Laser hair removal is safe, effective and efficient way to get rid of unwanted hair on the face, legs, underarms, back, chest, neck and bikini area. It is becoming increasingly popular for both men and women. And now that tans are fading, it’s the perfect time, since laser hair removal should be done on untanned skin. With the high-tech laser systems, unwanted hair is removed quickly and with minimal discomfort. Lasers use light waves to penetrate and destroy the root of hair follicles. Patients can generally expect about 70 percent hair reduction in the treated area, and hair that does grow back is usually finer and lighter in color.

Sona Laser Center, located at 1235 S. Main St. in Grapevine, offers advanced laser technology that provides faster and more precise treatment than found in many other lasers today. Phil Thompson, the Owner and General manager of Sona said there are three very important factors to having a positive experience with laser hair removal. 

Phil Thompson, Sona Owner, on right

First, you must find an experienced technician in order to achieve good results. Second, you MUST also have the right laser. “Many different machines are being promoted, yet only a couple of them really do the best job in permanently removing hair,” Tompson said.

 Lastly, you MUST be treated at the right time, which is in the middle of your next full growth cycle of hair.  If any of these components are missing, your results will be marginal at best. So it is very important to find a laser center that takes all three steps into consideration

 Thompson has personally been in the cosmetic laser business since 1995 and helped introduce the first laser ever made for hair removal.  He has been in the medical laser business since 1986.  Sona Laser Center only hires RN’s to do the laser treatments. Most laser centers do not offer such professionalism from their staff. Also, each nurse is trained 100 hours before ever treating a customer alone.  This is unheard of in this business, where even in doctor’s offices the laser technician often has very little formal training.  

Sona Laser Centers have been around since the advent of laser hair removal in 1996. The Grapevine center is the seventeenth franchise for Sona in the U.S.  Collectively, Sona performs over 200,000 laser hair removal procedures per year and is the largest laser hair removal company is the country.  Sona is a medically supervised facility, with Dr. Robert Bledsoe, a local plastic surgeon at Baylor Grapevine, acting as Medical Director. 

Sona also has a patented computer software program that is designed to incorporate findings of genetic studies and clinical papers on hair growth cycles in humans that were done in the late 1960’s and 70’s.  No other laser hair removal business employs this information or structures their treatment schedules around scientific facts like Sona does.  This is what really sets them apart from everyone else. 

If you are considering laser hair removal and have questions or would just like more information, the staff at Sona is ready to help.  

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