HEALTH ISSUES!

Your Immune System Because this process (electrology) destroys the tissue that grows hair, you must have a healthy immune system in order to heal properly. There are several medical conditions that compromise the immune system: - Diabetes, HIV, Lupus, any Collagen disease, and tissue rejection drugs from transplants may place a patient at high risk of incomplete healing or subsequent infection that may be hard to cure. - Heart pacemakers can be disrupted by electrology. - Herpes/Shingles viruses can be activated by electrology, heat and tissue damage. - High Blood pressure can increase the risks involved in using local anesthetics. - Allergy to local anesthetics can be serious, or even fatal if not properly addressed. Even in the best medical facilities with the best sterile technique, infection is always a risk of every procedure, and even though it may be very rare, the risk is still very real. We never want to put a patient at risk, and so we ask that you be honest and responsible in seeking any services, including ours. One who is wise will truly see risk as danger. Plastic Surgery Nothing is set in stone, nor has it ever been clinically demonstrated, but there is a concern that has crossed the mind of more than one doctor. The concern is that during the healing period after a patient has had plastic surgery, especially facial plastic surgery, they are at a higher risk of infection in the surgical sites, on the surface of any implants (or other foreign materials) that may have been put in, and even in the scars from surgery itself. This is because in such areas, the body's natural defenses are compromised. Even though we, and other electrologists, have worked on many people who recently had such surgery without any problems, we are beginning to think this risk could be real. The problem of assessing an undocumented risk is that if it happens only once in 10,000 people, then it may be a long time before you even see one, much less two cases. So mostly based on the theory, we think that caution is wise. For this reason we recommend that a patient having surgery should not undergo electrology (at our clinic or anywhere else) for three months following surgery. Skin follicles often contain bacteria and we just don't want to risk introducing them into an area where the immune defenses have been temporarily compromised by recent surgery.