Konnikov, 1990
This unpublished report was included with
Dr. Konnikov compared plucking with electric tweezing by Removatron on 13 women. After six months of treatment, patients were only observed in follow-up for three months after final treatment.
Despite this small sample size and brief follow-up, Dr. Konnikov concluded that “46% of facial hairs treated with the Removatron device can be considered with reasonable medical certainty to have been permanently removed.” FDA didn’t buy it, and either do I.
See also a published report using electric tweezers (
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