Quote from: AutumnLeaves on April 30, 2019, 05:29:24 PM
I am looking at both and am ready to book for some long, multi-day sessions to remove pretty much all of my remaining body hair. Does anybody have any feedback or recommendations regarding one versus another? Precision Hair Removal seems more "medical" and has the option of doing local anesthetic and IV sedation for genital work along with topical lidocaine for other areas. Electrology 3000 can do the nerve blocks, but they don't do the IV sedation. Precision is considerably more expensive as well, but my main concern is getting as much hair removal as efficiently as possible at once. I live in Oregon, so I will have to travel either way but Chicago is easier to get to. I need to make up my mind ASAP.
Thanks!
I've been a patient at Precision. The lead electrologist there, Irina, is excellent. The reason they are able to offer sedation is that the office is co-located with Dr. Zukowski's plastic surgery center. Dr. Z inserts the IV and administered the sedation drug and the injections of lidocaine/epinephrine which, without the sedation, are quite painful. The sedation itself wears off quickly, but the local anesthetic lasts several hours. It's also possible to have the treatments done with just topical lidocaine ointment which is strong enough to be effective but much less expensive. I chose the injections for my first four full face clearings, but from then on just used the topical numbing. That worked fine for me for sessions lasting 5 hours (have a fairly high pain threshold, and found that I could tolerate the pain better with each successive session).
I gather you are having body hair removed, not facial hair, so except for the genital areas, topical lidocaine should be enough to reduce the pain to a manageable level.
In most cases the type of electrolysis they use is "flash" thermolysis. It's using RF energy to destroy the follicle. It's much faster and more economical than the other type which is a combination of galvanic electrolysis and thermolysis (called "blend") which is much slower but unlikely to cause scabbing or scarring. Precision uses top of line electrolysis machines, so you can be sure of getting the best that today's tech can offer.
Good luck on which ever provider you choose.