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WE EXPLAIN LASERS VS IPL

The healing properties of light have been recognised for thousands of years. The Greeks and Romans both understood that sunlight could play some remedial role – although there was little understanding of why.

As early as 1903 scientists realised light could be used for therapeutic treatment. The same year Danish physician Niels Finsen Ryberg was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on light therapy, which eventuated with a machine that emitted similar wavelengths to the sun.

In 1917, physicist Albert Einstein theorised on the light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation, or what we commonly refer to as lasers. Today lasers are used in a multitude of products and systems – from barcode

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