IBEC Electrolysis FL State Exam | Expert Verified Questions and Answers | Most Recent 2026 Update

IBEC Electrolysis FL State Exam | Expert Verified
Questions and Answers | Most Recent 2026
Update
• What is the distance measured in nanometers between two peaks or two troughs
known as? -✓✓ Wavelength

• Light of only one color and one specific wavelength is known as? -✓✓ Monochromatic

• Refraction is also known as what? -✓✓ Transmission

• The process where by a newly created photon of light (generated through
amplification) acquires energy equal to the photons that created it is known as? -✓✓
Stimulated Emission

• The states of equilibrium or middle state of light -✓✓ Metastable

• Who theorized stimulated emission? -✓✓ Albert Einstein

• The part of the laser that contains that active medium is called? -✓✓ Resonator Cavity

• What are the states of light in stimulated emission? -✓✓ Ground State
Excited State
Singlet State
Metastable State

• Alexandrite laser is in the visible light spectrum at what wavelength? -✓✓ 755nm

• The Nd:YAG laser falls in the invisible light spectrum with a wavelength of what? -✓✓
1064nm

• What typer of wave is used in laser hair removal? -✓✓ Pulsed Wave

• A chromophore is also known as what? -✓✓ Target

• The chromophore absorbs what? -✓✓ Energy

• Goggles worn by the patient and practitioner must be approved by which group? -✓✓
ANSI (American National Standard Institute) for Class 3B and Class 4 Lasers

• Each laser wavelength is what to its machine? -✓✓ Specific

,• What are the parameters when doing laser hair removal? -✓✓ Wavelength
Spot Size
Fluence
Pulse Width

• Pulsed lasers allow for selective heating of specific targets, this is also known as? -✓✓
Selective Photothermolysis

• The rate/amount of energy delivered within a given area is known as? -✓✓ Fluence

• An increase in fluency equals an increase in what? -✓✓ Heat. Resulting in more
damage

• The length of time the light/energy is in contact with the target that is measured in -✓✓
Milliseconds (ms): Pulse Width/Pulse Duration

• If the time of pulse duration is changed from milliseconds to nanoseconds the laser is
what? -✓✓ Switched

• A switched laser is used for what? -✓✓ Tattoo Removal

• Which skin types can tolerate an ALEX laser? -✓✓ Types 1-4

• Which skin types can tolerate a Nd:YAG laser? -✓✓ All Skin Types

• Which skin type should only have electrolysis and NO laser? -✓✓ Type 1

• If the pulse width is greater than the thermal relaxation time it results in? -✓✓ A burn

• If the pulse width is less than of equal to the thermal relaxation time it results in? -✓✓
Perfect Hair Removal

• Larger structures have ______ thermal relaxation times(TRT) -✓✓ Longer

• Smaller structures have ______ thermal relaxation times -✓✓ Shorter

• What kind of pulse widths protect the epidermis, penetrate deeper and cool more
slowly? -✓✓ Long

• Longer pulse widths are for what skin type? -✓✓ 4-6

• What kind of pulse widths are more aggressive and heat up and cool down quickly? -
✓✓ Short

, • Shorter pulse widths are for what skin type? -✓✓ 1-3

• What percentage of follicles are damaged with each laser treatment? -✓✓ 15%

• What is a long term reduction of the growing hairs after a treatment regime? -✓✓
Laser Hair Removal (LHR)

• What does the FDA call laser hair removal? -✓✓ Permanent Hair Reduction

• What is the highest setting the skin can tolerate without damage called? -✓✓ Fulence
Threshold

• What is the highest setting the patient can tolerate without the treatment becoming
impossible called? -✓✓ Patient Threshold

• The amount of hair per one square centimeter is known as? -✓✓ Hair Density

• The higher the hair density, the ______ the fluence? -✓✓ Lower

• What percentage of overlapping do you want when doing laser hair removal? -✓✓
30%

• Darker/tanned skin requires what kind of fluence? -✓✓ Lower

• What should you never use to clean a patients skin prior to LHR? -✓✓ Alcohol

• Pulse duration is measured in what unit? -✓✓ Milliseconds (ms)

• Spot size is measured in what unit? -✓✓ Millimeters (mm)

• Repetition rate is measured in what unit? -✓✓ Hertz (Hz)

• Who is the grandfather of laser and was the first person to use water to cool the skin
during laser? -✓✓ Rox Anderson

• The formula for fluence is? -✓✓ Joules = J/cm2

• What kind of lasers allow for selective heating of specific targets? -✓✓ Selective
photothermolysis

• For deeper laser penetration what should the practitioner do to the laser? -✓✓ Change
to a bigger spot size