IBEC Electrolysis & Laser State Test Exam

IBEC Electrolysis & Laser State Test Exam | Actual Questions and Answers Latest Updated 2024/2025 (Graded A+) What is anaphoresis? Correct Answer: Process of infusing a negative (alkaline) product into the skin; used in galvanic current. Can electrologists use anaphoresis? Correct Answer: No, electrologists are not allowed to use anaphoresis. What is the skin type that needs test spots? Correct Answer: Fitzpatrick 3 + 4. What should be the biggest concern for a client with darker skin? Correct Answer: Erythema, Edema, Blanching, Keloid. What is Cushing Syndrome? Correct Answer: Hypercortisolism; caused by either excess steroid use or ectopic A.C.T.H. What should you do if an epilator stops working? Correct Answer: Turn the epilator off and unplug it. What causes hair changes in women? Correct Answer: Ovaries and Adrenal imbalances. Type 1 Diabetes is insulin _______. Correct Answer: Dependent. Type 2 Diabetes is insulin _______. Correct Answer: Resistant. What is pseudofolliculitis? Correct Answer: Cutaneous, inflammatory disorder of the hair follicle. Where do living cells divide and grow to build the hair shaft? Correct Answer: Hair bulb. Who gets gestational diabetes? Correct Answer: Pregnant women. Page 2 Smaller needles are _______. Correct Answer: Hotter. Heat pattern is _______ shaped. Correct Answer: Pear/tear drop. Where in the skin does mitosis occur? Correct Answer: Basal Layer / stratum basale. Temperature for washing hands? Correct Answer: Warm Water. What is a biological indicator and what does it do? Correct Answer: The most accepted means of monitoring sterilization; the biological indicator only tells you if the target temperature was reached. Water becomes a chromophore at? Correct Answer: 900nm. Names for thermolysis: Correct Answer: Alternating current, high frequency, short wave, radio frequency, flash, diathermy. Names for Electrolysis: Correct Answer: Galvanic, Multiple Needle, Direct current. Can you use DC and AC at the same time? Correct Answer: Yes, if you are using the Blend. What are the different types of epidermal cooling? Correct Answer: Air Cooling, Cryogen, Contact Cooling, Gel cooling. What is contact cooling? Correct Answer: A device that is a combination of a cooling pad associated with a vacuum or mechanical massager intended for the disruption of adipocyte cells. What is air cooling? Correct Answer: Reducing the temperature of the skin (with cool air) numbs it, and numb skin has fewer active pain receptors. What modality is good for coarse hair? Correct Answer: Electrolysis. Page 3 What is made in the positive pole? Correct Answer: Hydrochloric Acid; HCl; Chlorine gas. What is made in the negative pole? Correct Answer: Sodium Hydroxide; NaOH; Hydrogen gas. In the Blend, lye becomes more _______. Correct Answer: Caustic. What is an oscillator? Correct Answer: A device used to turn a very, very low frequency current into High Frequency. What is the top layer of skin called? Correct Answer: Stratum corneum. The needle size is dependent on? Correct Answer: The diameter of the hair follicle. What is an antiseptic? Correct Answer: A solution or agent for eliminating bacteria on the skin. At what percentage of alcohol is it considered an antiseptic? Correct Answer: 30%. At what percentage of alcohol is it considered a disinfectant? Correct Answer: 70%. What are the steps to clean forceps? Correct Answer: Clean forceps with soap and water, put in Barbicide for 10 mins, and put in autoclave/dry clave for the required amount of time for packaged or unpackaged instruments. How long should an unpackaged instrument be in an autoclave and at what temperature? Correct Answer: 15 mins at 250°F (plus lag time). How long should a packaged instrument be in an autoclave and at what temperature? Correct Answer: 30 mins at 250°F (plus lag time). How long should an instrument be in a dry clave at 340°F? Correct Answer: 60 mins. How long should an instrument be in a dry clave at 320°F? Correct Answer: 120 mins. Page 4 What should you use to clean the air filter on your laser? Correct Answer: Bleach. What electrode is the patient holding in the blend? Correct Answer: Anode, positive pole. What do you apply to the skin after laser? Correct Answer: Cold compress. When is contact cooling used? Correct Answer: Before the laser treatment. What is a pilosebaceous unit? Correct Answer: Hair follicle, hair shaft, sebaceous gland, and arrector pili. How does thermolysis destroy the hair? Correct Answer: Electrodessication and electrocoagulation. What is vellus hair and where is it found? Correct Answer: Vellus hair (peach fuzz) is fine, short hair that grows all over your body, including your face, stomach, arms, and legs. Vellus hair helps regulate your body temperature and protects your skin. What is terminal hair? Correct Answer: Coarse hair on the head and in the pubic region; men's facial hair. What should a client on blood thinners get before treatment? Correct Answer: A doctor's note. What are the wavelengths for UVA and UVB? Correct Answer: UVA: 315-400nm; UVB: 280-315nm. Parameters of a laser: Correct Answer: Wavelength, Pulse width (pulse duration), Spot size, Fluence. What is monochromatic? Correct Answer: Laser has one and only one color; it is a single wavelength of light. What is polychromatic? Correct Answer: Traditional light beams consist of many colors or many wavelengths. Page 5 What are the characteristics of a laser? Correct Answer: Monochromatic, coherent, collimated. What are the characteristics of IPL? Correct Answer: Polychromatic, incoherent, non-collimated. What should a client apply on the treated area? Correct Answer: SPF. Is Hepatitis a virus or bacteria? Correct Answer: Virus. What can be used to soothe the skin? Correct Answer: Cataphoresis. Layers of a terminal hair: Correct Answer: Medulla, cortex, cuticle. Diabetes symptoms include blindness, neuropathy, and kidney failure, but what does it NOT cause? Correct Answer: Osteoporosis. Edema is caused by _______? Correct Answer: Plasma/lymphatic fluid leaking into intercellular spaces. What do sudoriferous glands secrete? Correct Answer: Sweat. Out of all of the ways laser can interact with the tissue, in order to get the best results we need which one? Correct Answer: Absorption. If a client has obesity and darkening of the skin, what are these symptoms of? Correct Answer: Insulin Resistance. According to the AEA, the best way to prevent infection is to _______? Correct Answer: Wash your hands. Electrical pressure is measured in _______? Correct Answer: Volts. Electrical resistance is measured in _______? Correct Answer: Ohms. A negatively charged atom is an _______? Correct Answer: Electron. How does a virus reproduce? Correct Answer: Inside a living host cell. Page 6 What can be spread by touching someone? Correct Answer: Impetigo. What follicle shape produces straight hair? Correct Answer: Round. When using an insulated needle the heat starts at the tip? Correct Answer: Point Effect. What is the category of disinfection for the epilator cord? Correct Answer: Non-critical. What is the best way to clean the skin for Electrolysis? Correct Answer: Antiseptic. What is the best way to clean the skin for Laser? Correct Answer: Water, unless they are wearing makeup or deodorant, then use a mild cleaner with water. How do you measure hair depth? Correct Answer: From the top of the epidermis to the bottom of the bulb. What is the wavelength of the Ruby laser? Correct Answer: 694nm. What is the wavelength of the Alexandrite laser? Correct Answer: 755nm. What is the wavelength of the Diode laser? Correct Answer: 800-810nm. What is the wavelength of the Nd:YAG laser? Correct Answer: 1064nm. What is the clinical end point? Correct Answer: How the skin looks after a treatment. What does the Blend use? Correct Answer: Galvanic and thermolysis simultaneously. What happens when you put the indifferent electrode on the skin? Correct Answer: You can get a rash. Page 7 A laser safety error example: Correct Answer: Using an extension cord to plug in the laser machine. Where are melanocytes found? Correct Answer: Stratum basale. Who can you release medical information to? Correct Answer: Federal or state government. Electrical Strength is measured in _______? Correct Answer: Amps. What kills some but not all microbes? Correct Answer: High-level disinfectant. When treating eyebrows we sit where? Correct Answer: The head of the table. You must have a _______ to treat anyone with a pacemaker. Correct Answer: Doctor's note. Which natural hair color is deepest? Correct Answer: Gray hair. We always do a spot test on skin types _______? Correct Answer: 3 and 4. What is skin type 2? Correct Answer: Caucasian. UVA rays penetrate deeper into the _______ layer. Correct Answer: Subcutaneous. Darker skin types, Fitzpatrick 3-6, have more active _______? Correct Answer: Melanocytes. What does the papillary layer do? Correct Answer: Gives skin its elasticity. The appendages of the skin include what? Correct Answer: Nerves, blood vessels, lymph, hair and hair follicles, nails, sweat glands (sudoriferous glands), oil glands (sebaceous glands). Page 8 Lymph nodes filter all of the toxins brought to them by _______? Correct Answer: Lymphocytes. Arrector pili muscle helps trap heat in order to _______? Correct Answer: Maintain heat regulation in the body. Sebum is produced by _______ glands. Correct Answer: Sebaceous. Cosmeceuticals are higher grade products usually only sold in medical spas or by licensed professionals, but you do not need a _______? Correct Answer: Prescription. Do you need a prescription for Pharmaceuticals? Correct Answer: Yes. How long must you wait after microdermabrasion to be able to get electrolysis? Correct Answer: 3 months. Tetracycline is an antibiotic used for what? Correct Answer: Acne; does not kill bacteria, just prevents bacteria from multiplying. Nerves synapse fatigue is caused by what? Correct Answer: Overtreatment. If a client has a trapped hair what should you do? Correct Answer: Free the hair and let it heal before treating. What is the role of melanin in the skin? Correct Answer: To absorb and scatter energy from UV light to protect epidermal cells from damage. Erythema is caused by? Correct Answer: Vasodilation. Erythema can be reduced by? Correct Answer: Vasoconstriction. The amount of hair growth that is in anagen depends on what? Correct Answer: Area of the body. Page 9 What are infected pustules, bumps, and ingrown hairs that occur in a man's beard? Correct Answer: Pseudofolliculitis Barbae. In women, terminal hair on the face alone suggests what? Correct Answer: Excess of androgens. Where do mitotic cells in the hair begin their growth activity? Correct Answer: Hair matrix. What can cause excessive hair growth? Correct Answer: Hormones and blood supply. What gland do vellus hairs originate from? Correct Answer: Sebaceous gland. In what type of skin are melanocytes larger and more active? Correct Answer: Dark skin. Where do you find melanin? Correct Answer: Hair, skin, eyes. What is the buildup of interstitial fluid between cells in the skin? Correct Answer: Edema. What gland is most associated with hair growth? Correct Answer: Adrenals. In which hair growth stage does the club start to form? Correct Answer: Catagen. Which layer are mast cells found? Correct Answer: Dermis. If a vellus hair is stimulated to grow deeper and coarser it is said to be? Correct Answer: Accelerated vellus hair. What external factor/emotion can be directly linked to hair growth? Correct Answer: Stress. What is the difference between male/female hair follicles and hair growth? Correct Answer: Distribution of hair follicles. Men have more concentration of circulating androgens but usually have the same number of follicles. To measure thickness of epidermis: Correct Answer: From epidermis to IRS. Page 10 Excessive hair growth is directly linked to? Correct Answer: Insulin resistance. When a client has tweezed weekly, most of the hairs in the area will be in what stage? Correct Answer: Early anagen. If a client is on Accutane (isotretinoin) with excessive hair growth problems, what could they be diagnosed with? Correct Answer: Iatric Hirsutism. What is excess hair that is not abnormal for a person's age and sex, but is not desired or socially accepted? Correct Answer: Superfluous. Hirsutism that has no identifiable cause is called: Correct Answer: Idiopathic. Hirsutism resulting from taking certain medications is called? Correct Answer: Iatric. Hydroquinone treats: Correct Answer: Hyperpigmentation. The lipid part of sebum is called? Correct Answer: Triglycerides. Desquamation (peeling) process takes how long? Correct Answer: On average, 28 days. Evaporation of sweat on the skin surface produces cooling, also known as? Correct Answer: Thermoregulation. Skin color derives from a combination of? Correct Answer: Melanin, carotene, and blood vessels. Amino acid found in melanocytes that produce melanin and protect from UV rays: Correct Answer: Tyrosine. Bundle of tiny vellus hair protruding from a follicle: Correct Answer: Vellus comedone. A remnant of a small anagen hair which was left unepilated in a treated follicle is known as? Correct Answer: Tombstone - no need to treat a tombstone. What is the biggest challenge for an electrologist concerning skin? Correct Answer: Deep coarse hair with moist skin. Dry skin is ideal. Page 11 How can HF blowout be prevented? Correct Answer: By reducing intensities and/or duration. The most important factor when choosing forceps is? Correct Answer: Their ability to withstand sterilization. Who approves the epilator machine? Correct Answer: FDA. The HF A/C required by thermolysis is produced by? Correct Answer: An oscillator. What are NOT contraindications for electrolysis? Correct Answer: Tetracycline, AHA, and Retin-A. General rule of thumb is to match needle size with? Correct Answer: Hair diameter. Most important factor when choosing forceps is the ability to withstand _______? Correct Answer: Sterilization. Needle sizes range from? Correct Answer: F2-F6 (.002-.006). Aftertreatment advice for electrolysis includes? Correct Answer: Avoid sun and tanning beds for 24 hours after treatment. The patient needs to be informed during the consultation that the electrolysis process will only take? Correct Answer: A series of treatments. Hair that is perceived as regrowth but has emerged naturally and has not been treated before is: Correct Answer: False regrowth. A correct statement about health history documentation is that it is: Correct Answer: Necessary for each patient without exception. Which of the following choices are not primary driving forces in our professional decision making? Correct Answer: Gender. What is a code of ethics? Correct Answer: A code of conduct sent down by professional organizations for their members. Page 12 During negative feedback from a patient, it is important for the electrologist to: Correct Answer: Listen fully until the patient is finished. Which of the following is not acceptable in an ethical hair removal practice? Correct Answer: Offering a guarantee of results. To effectively reduce liability exposure the professional electrologist should? Correct Answer: Maintain professional standards in practice. Pathogenic bacteria may produce: Correct Answer: Disease. One difference between viruses and bacteria is that bacteria: Correct Answer: Can live on their own. A communicable disease is: Correct Answer: Transmitted from one person to another. Sterilization is the process whereby: Correct Answer: All bacteria are destroyed. Universal precautions is the term that applies to? Correct Answer: The use of infectious control practices when treating all patients. At which of the times is hand washing indicated? Correct Answer: Before and after treatments. What should be included in the patient record? Correct Answer: Date of treatment, length of treatment, and area treated. Bacteria in spore form are: Correct Answer: Non-productive. Bacteria which are round shaped are called: Correct Answer: Staphylococci. Bacteria that requires oxygen to grow: Correct Answer: Aerobic bacteria. Bacteria living on dead or decaying matter are called: Correct Answer: Saprophytes. Spherical shaped bacteria connected in chains are called: Correct Answer: Streptococcus. A correct statement concerning hair is that it is: Correct Answer: An appendage of the skin. Page 13 Another word for hair is: Correct Answer: A pilvus. Terminal hair is located in all of the following areas except: Correct Answer: Body hair of females. What is NOT an appendage of the skin? Correct Answer: Dermal papillae. The central nervous system includes? Correct Answer: Brain and spinal cord. When the body is in an excitable state which endocrine gland mimics the effect of the sympathetic division? Correct Answer: Adrenal medulla. The three classes of nerve fibers found in the skin are? Correct Answer: Motor, sensory, and secretory. Synapses are located between: Correct Answer: The axon of one neuron and the dendrites of another neuron. What is the least common but most deadly skin tumor? Correct Answer: Malignant melanoma. Redness or flushing of the skin is called: Correct Answer: Erythema. A crack-like lesion or groove on the skin is a: Correct Answer: Fissure. Pinpoint, purplish spots from bleeding under the skin are known as: Correct Answer: Petechiae. The formation of an excessive scar after injury or surgery is called a: Correct Answer: Keloid. The normal leukocyte cell: Correct Answer: Protects the body against infection. The blood vessels having the most elastic tissue are: Correct Answer: Arteries. Which of the following produce antibodies: Correct Answer: Lymphocytes. Page 14 The sympathetic nervous system affects the heart by: Correct Answer: Accelerating the action of the heart. Where does the aorta originate? Correct Answer: Left ventricle of the heart. The most common feedback mechanism is: Correct Answer: Negative. The structure that secretes progesterone is the: Correct Answer: Corpus luteum. What would a patient be suspected of if they present with obesity, red or purple striate, "moon face," and dowager's hump? Correct Answer: Cushing's syndrome. What is pruritus? Correct Answer: Itching. What is erythema/purpura? Correct Answer: Bruising. Which of the following is the most common cause of hirsutism and menstrual irregularity in women less than 50 years of age is: Correct Answer: Polycystic ovaries. What condition results when androgenic stimulus transforms vellus hair into thick terminal hair? Correct Answer: Hirsutism. Direct current flows: Correct Answer: In one direction only. A transformer: Correct Answer: Steps voltage up and down. Alternating current can be converted into direct current by a: Correct Answer: Rectifier. A protective covering that prevents the passage of electricity is called: Correct Answer: Insulation. Accidental use of the positive pole with the needle will produce? Correct Answer: A tattoo. The intensity of galvanic is measured by the: Correct Answer: Milliamper [milliamperes]. Page 15 Galvanic action is a: Correct Answer: Chemical action. To deprive of moisture or dry up: Correct Answer: Dessicate. To coagulate is to: Correct Answer: Congeal. Short-wave is more successful on curly hair when the hair is in what stage? Correct Answer: Early anagen. With short wave, what is the ideal heating pattern? Correct Answer: Starts at the tip and progresses up the needle at a uniform rate. The shape of the heated area surrounding the high frequency needle is called: Correct Answer: The heating pattern. Using the blend modality, the application of thermolysis causes the lye to: Correct Answer: Become more caustic. What is a cicatrix? Correct Answer: A scar. The blend method is also known as: Correct Answer: Dual-action. The balancing of the blend consists of proportioning the proper amount of galvanic to the span of time required for: Correct Answer: High frequency epilation. How many classifications of laser are there? Correct Answer: 4. What part of the human body is most vulnerable to the laser beam? Correct Answer: Eyes. What color is the laser light? Correct Answer: Depends on the medium. What particle plays an important role in lasing? Correct Answer: Photon. What does LASER stand for? Correct Answer: Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Page 16 The wavelength of the laser is a direct relationship with what feature of the medium? Correct Answer: The amount of energy levels in the lasing process. In what decade was the first laser built? Correct Answer: 1960s. The target chromophore for laser hair removal devices is: Correct Answer: Melanin. Laser hair removal is most effective in: Correct Answer: Individuals with dark hair and fair skin. The most critical factor in protecting the skin during laser treatment is? Correct Answer: Cooling. What determines the color of the light? Correct Answer: Its wavelength. What scientist first came up with the idea of stimulated emission? Correct Answer: Albert Einstein. As the wavelength gets longer, the laser light can be focused to: Correct Answer: Smaller spot size. What does AEA stand for? Correct Answer: American Electrology Association. What does CDC stand for? Correct Answer: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. What is Wen? Correct Answer: Epidermal cyst; a non-tender epidermal cyst that is filled with sebum. What is a furuncle? Correct Answer: Staph abscess that forms in hair follicle (a boil). What is a nevus? Correct Answer: Birthmark. What is another name for a freckle? Correct Answer: Ephelis; lentigo. Which nervous system controls blood circulation? Correct Answer: Autonomic nervous system. Page 17 What layer of the skin is not always present? Correct Answer: Stratum lucidum. What are the five layers of the epidermis? Correct Answer: Stratum corneum, stratum lucidum, stratum granulosum, stratum spinosum, stratum basale. Where do vellus hairs begin their life? Correct Answer: Lobe of the sebaceous gland. Topical antibiotic for acne? Correct Answer: Erythromycin. Oral antibiotics for acne: Correct Answer: Tetracycline (Accutane).