Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) is a globally accepted name for biostimulation with low energy lasers in order to achieve therapeutic desired effects. Traditionally, LLLT falls under the realm of Physical Medicine, which uses stimulation therapy to activate the body’s natural defense mechanisms. When LLLT is the stimulus, the treatment modality is known as photobiostimulation.

LLLT has been indicated in physical or manual medicine, sports medicine, dermatology and neuroendocrine disorders in human and animal patients. The anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties of LLLT, as well as its effect on collagen formation, are good indications for LLLT in surgery and dentistry, especially after major operations. The goal of LLLT is to increase the circulation of the blood to the follicle area and to stimulate the hair organs (nerves, muscles and growth centers of the follicle).

In 2003, there was a study on 35 patients (28 males, 7 females) with androgenetic alopecia who were subjected to the LLLT of LaserMax Comb. The course of therapy was an every other day application of the comb for 5-10 minutes for 6 months. The outcome showed that, all patients considered, 93.5% of patients had a hair count increase and 78.9% had an increase in hair tensile strength.

With this, it would be safe to say that LaserMax Comb is a specific treatment comb. When brushing the hair, the LaserMax will emit low level laser light energy on the scalp. The light rays will penetrate the hair cells and provide stimulation for hair regrowth. However, it has been documented that FDA approval for devices like the LaserMax Comb is not based on any measure of their effectiveness as a hair loss treatment. Rather LaserMax Comb have merely been FDA approved recently for being non harmful. Yet the marketers have been cleverly touting their products FDA approval in press releases and their advertisements as if it were now proven to be an effective FDA approved hair loss product like Rogaine or Minoxidil.

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