FDA U.S. Food and Drug Administration – Medical Device Databases under the 510(k) database. Several manufactures received FDA permission to claim, “permanent REDUCTION”, NOT “permanent removal” with their lasers. This means that although laser treatments with these devices will permanently REDUCE the total number of body hairs, they will NOT result in a permanent removal of all hair. Source: http://www.fda.gov/Radiation-Emitting/ResourcesforYouRadiationEmittingProducts.ucm252761.htm