ESTHETICS: Oregon State Board
Practice
What is the barrier created by skin using both sebum and sweat? - answer Acid mantle
What is the chemical reaction in which the oxidizing agent is reduced and the reducing
agent is oxidized? - answer Oxidation-reduction (redox)
What is the subtraction of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen called? - answer
Reduction
What does it mean if a liquid is immiscible? - answer The liquids are not mutually
soluble.
What does hydrophilic mean? - answer Water loving
What does lipophilic mean? - answer Oil loving
What are electrotherapy treatments often called? - answer Modalities
What are the most common used modalities in aesthetics today? - answer Galvanic
current, microcurrent, and Tesla high-frequency current
What type of current is a galvanic current? - answer Direct current
What modality uses an extremely low level of electricity that mirrors the body's own
natural electrical impulses? - answer Microcurrent
Cataphoresis: Effects of Galvanic Current - answer Produces acidic reactions
Closes the pores
Soothes the nerves
Decreases blood supply
Contracts blood vessels
, Hardens and firms tissues
Anaphoresis: Effects of Galvanic Current - answer Produces alkaline reactions
Open the pores
Stimulate and irritate the nerves
Increases blood supply
Expands blood vessels
Softens tissues
Effects of Microcurrent - answer Improve blood and lymph circulation
Produces acidic and alkaline reaction opens and closes hair follicles and pores
Increases muscle tone
Restores elasticity
Reduces redness and inflammation
Minimizes healing time in acne lesions enter improved barrier function of the skin
Increases metabolism
What is another name for Tesla high frequency current? - answer Violet ray
What is the thermal or heat producing current with a high rate of oscillation or vibration?
- answer Tesla high frequency current
Effects of Tesla high-frequency current - answer Stimulates blood circulation
Increases elimination and absorption
Increases metabolism
Improves germicidal action
Relieve congestion
What are the three types of electromagnetic energy? - answer Visible light, invisible
infrared light, and invisible ultraviolet radiation
What does laser stand for? - answer Light amplification stimulation emission of
radiation
What is the process that turns the light from the laser into heat? - answer
Photothermolysis
What is yellow light used to do? - answer Reduce swelling and inflammation
What does green light reduce? - answer Hyperpigmentation
What medical device uses multiple colors and wavelength of focused right to treat
spider veins, hyperpigmentation, rosacea, redness, wrinkles, enlarged hair follicles,
poor, and excessive hair? - answer Intense pulsed light
Where is skin thickest? - answer On the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
Practice
What is the barrier created by skin using both sebum and sweat? - answer Acid mantle
What is the chemical reaction in which the oxidizing agent is reduced and the reducing
agent is oxidized? - answer Oxidation-reduction (redox)
What is the subtraction of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen called? - answer
Reduction
What does it mean if a liquid is immiscible? - answer The liquids are not mutually
soluble.
What does hydrophilic mean? - answer Water loving
What does lipophilic mean? - answer Oil loving
What are electrotherapy treatments often called? - answer Modalities
What are the most common used modalities in aesthetics today? - answer Galvanic
current, microcurrent, and Tesla high-frequency current
What type of current is a galvanic current? - answer Direct current
What modality uses an extremely low level of electricity that mirrors the body's own
natural electrical impulses? - answer Microcurrent
Cataphoresis: Effects of Galvanic Current - answer Produces acidic reactions
Closes the pores
Soothes the nerves
Decreases blood supply
Contracts blood vessels
, Hardens and firms tissues
Anaphoresis: Effects of Galvanic Current - answer Produces alkaline reactions
Open the pores
Stimulate and irritate the nerves
Increases blood supply
Expands blood vessels
Softens tissues
Effects of Microcurrent - answer Improve blood and lymph circulation
Produces acidic and alkaline reaction opens and closes hair follicles and pores
Increases muscle tone
Restores elasticity
Reduces redness and inflammation
Minimizes healing time in acne lesions enter improved barrier function of the skin
Increases metabolism
What is another name for Tesla high frequency current? - answer Violet ray
What is the thermal or heat producing current with a high rate of oscillation or vibration?
- answer Tesla high frequency current
Effects of Tesla high-frequency current - answer Stimulates blood circulation
Increases elimination and absorption
Increases metabolism
Improves germicidal action
Relieve congestion
What are the three types of electromagnetic energy? - answer Visible light, invisible
infrared light, and invisible ultraviolet radiation
What does laser stand for? - answer Light amplification stimulation emission of
radiation
What is the process that turns the light from the laser into heat? - answer
Photothermolysis
What is yellow light used to do? - answer Reduce swelling and inflammation
What does green light reduce? - answer Hyperpigmentation
What medical device uses multiple colors and wavelength of focused right to treat
spider veins, hyperpigmentation, rosacea, redness, wrinkles, enlarged hair follicles,
poor, and excessive hair? - answer Intense pulsed light
Where is skin thickest? - answer On the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
