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Jun
2025
Complete Guide: What is a Laser Protection Adviser (LPA)?
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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.
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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... Read More
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,... Read More
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... Read More
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.... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
21
Aug
2021
Hair reduction- laser or IPL?
What is better: laser or IPL in hair removal?
11
Jun
2021
The results of the diode laser hair reduction treatments after the IPL hair reduction treatments
What tesults you can expect when ypur clients had alredy some IPL trratments and then they come to see you fro a diode laser?
4
Jun
2021
IPL- is it good?
What aboiut IPL in aesthetics? Why shall we use it? What is the most important when choosing IPL?