Aswad
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Permanent is certainly doable. It's just not commercially viable. Don't recall the lab which did the original work, but the gist of it was that a microscope is used to focus on the living tissue that creates the hair, deliver a tuned laser pulse through a filter in the microscope, then a different laser is used to give the circulation access to the damaged area, and finally the hair is removed, then you move on to the next follicle. The body clears out the contents of the follicle, and regenerates it as clean, fresh, unbroken, glabrous skin. That's permanent, in the sense of "it isn't coming back without a skin graft, period." However, it's also time consuming, requires a dermatologist with many hours clocked behind a scope, and a ballpark figure for the equipment would be six digits plus the assembly, the certification, the tuning and the operator training. Most large, well-equipped hospitals and most large optical labs will have the equipment. Most places that have it, will have someone on hand who could perform the procedure. Most people who could perform the procedure are busy with more important things than worrying about chastity belts and cosmetic hair removal. Enough cajoling and money will see it done, but why? Health, al-Aswad.
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"If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew: God doesn't make the world this way. We do." -- Rorschack, Watchmen.
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