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4 Jun 2025

Complete Guide: What is a Laser Protection Adviser (LPA)?

Wondering what a Laser Protection Adviser (LPA) is and whether your UK clinic needs one? This comprehensive guide explains legal requirements, compliance costs, and regional differences across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Learn from Dr. Magdalena Atta-Motte, certified LPA with PhD in Medical Lasers, why operating without proper LPA support can result in unlimited fines and prosecution. Discover RQIA, CQC, and HIW requirements, plus expert tips for choosing the right LPA services for your practice.
30 May 2025

Towards Better Practice: An LPA’s Assessment of Aesthetic Training Framework

The laser training standards UK face an unprecedented crisis, with aesthetic laser treatments becoming increasingly accessible while practitioner competency requirements remain dangerously inadequate. Current laser training standards UK providers are failing to address critical safety gaps, creating significant public safety risks that regulatory bodies have yet to comprehensively address. The Regulatory Vacuum Currently, aesthetic laser...
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16 May 2022

The use of lasers in the treatment of scars

Scar treatments described in the literature include chemical, physical and surgical methods. The treatment is primarily focused on prevention from the abnormal healing process of the skin, so and combination therapies are often used for this purpose. The aim of the article was to present the classification of scars and the concept of laser treatment,...
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13 May 2022

Assignment for level 6 course- laser scar reduction by our student kasia M. Fernandez

Essey level 6 Scar reduction by means of fractional and non-ablative fractional ablation lasers by Kasia M Fernandez   We are so proud of our student- Kasia and her assignment! We would like to have so passionate students every time!   ” Scar reduction by means of fractional and non-ablative fractional ablation lasers by Kasia...
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7 Sep 2021

IPL Laser

It’s a bit perverse, but it’s one of the most frequently asked questions on Google. A laser is not an IPL and an IPL is not a laser. IPL is a device that uses intense flashes of light usually coming from a xenon lamp. This type of light is:   Polychromatic   Diffuse   Incoherent....
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7 Sep 2021

Laser hair removal

Exactly, hair reduction, not hair removal treatments with the use of lasers or IPL should be referred to as ‘epilation treatments’ and not ‘depilation treatments’. The most commonly used lasers for epilation are the so-called diode lasers. The first laser used was the ruby ​​laser. The alexandrite laser is still a used epilation laser, it...
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7 Sep 2021

Why laser doesn’t work?

There are few things that might happened. 1) The quality of the device might have an inpact whether the laser therapy will be effective. Similarly, ‘maintenance’ of equipment, inspections and its calibration. Sometimes the laser is not correctly selected for a given procedure or patient / client. Always inquire about the type of laser before...
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