GentleMax Pro is a long-pulse alexandrite LASER / neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet LASER device manufactured by Candela Corporation, USA, and is approved as a medical device by Ministry of Health and Welfare, Japan (Authorization No.: 23000BZX00128000）Depending on the skin/hair nature of an individual, either LASER achieves hair removal while cooling the surface of the skin. Fine hairs such as vellus hairs are harder to react against the LASER hair removal treatment and require a greater number of LASER treatment sessions.

Fees (including tax/anesthesia cream) *

First time consultation 9,900 yen

 Each subsequent visit consultation 6,600 yen

Armpits 8,800 yen/session

Nape 33,000 yen/session

Arms (upper arms, forearms, hands, and fingers) 38,500 yen/session

Chest 22,000 yen/session

Abdomen 7,150 yen/session

Buttock 22,000 yen/session

Around nipples 5,500 yen/session

Legs (thighs and lower legs) 38,500 yen/session

Beard and mustache (jaw, upper lip, cheek, and under the chin) 36,500 yen/session

Frontal neck 33,000 yen/session

Back 33,000 yen/session

Small area hair removal 550 yen/LASER shot

 Subject to change without notice

Suggested frequencies of the treatment

Beard and mustache: every 4 weeks

Other parts of the body: every 6-8 weeks

Suggested number of sessions

Around 5-10 sessions until the patient realizes the effect of Laser hair removal of the face

Fine hairs such as vellus hairs are harder to react against the LASER hair removal treatment and require a greater number of LASER treatment sessions.

Risks

The risks of the treatment include burn injury, scar formation, redness, hypopigmentation, pain, paradoxical hypertrichosis, folliculitis, uneven hair removal, dryness of the skin, formation of epidermal inclusion cyst, and keratitis

Preparation before the treatment

Please remove the hair at home one day before the LASER treatment. Using an electronic shaver, cut the hair to less than 1mm. The use of hair removal cream, wax, or tweezers would eliminate the LASER treatment effect. Unless you remove the hair, you are unable to have the LASER hair removal treatment.

After the procedure

Please use plenty of moisturizer at the site of the LASER hair removal. The sun-exposed areas require the use of sunscreen for 2 weeks after the treatment. You are encouraged to rinse off the area with shower, but please avoid soaking in the bathtub, sauna, drinking alcohol, and doing strenuous exercise for a few days after the treatment.

Contraindications

The laser hair removal can not be done to the areas with severe sunburn within a month, permanent makeup, and tattoos. Females who are pregnant or breast feeding and not indicated for the treatment. If the patient becomes pregnant after the start of the LASER hair removal sessions, she may resume the treatment after the pregnancy is over.

Cases requiring special attention

Those who are on a pacemaker, implantable cardioverter defibrillator, with a history of epilepsy, taking specific medicine (gold, platinum, warfarin, aspirin, retinoid, quinolone, and tetracycline, or patch medicine), with skin diseases (melanocytic nevus, skin cancer, wound, atopic dermatitis, urticaria, or infection diseases such as herpes), after cosmetic treatment (hyaluronic acid injection, botox injection, prosthesis, silicon, Gore-Tex, metal plate, gold thread, or other cosmetic materials), with infectious diseases such as hepatitis B/C, HIV, with severe diabetes, drinking alcohol, with metal allergy, and other medical conditions which the examining doctor considers inappropriate to take the procedure, may not be indicated for the LASER hair removal treatment.

Patients under 18 years of age require consent from the parent or the guardian.