UVB Narrow Band causes less sun burning or erythemal effect than other treatments such as UVB Broadband. The chart above shows that the skin’s erythemal (sun burning sensitivity) is at its max at around 297 nm and that UVB NB with it’s spectra centered around 311-313 nm generates very low erythemal response. This allows the user to have longer treatment times before “seeing” an erythemal response. UVB NB is fast becoming the recommended treatment to replace Broadband UVB and PUVA. Most of Amjo’s sales today are UVB Narrow Band units.

Clinical studies have shown that the peak therapeutic effectiveness of UVB to be between 295 to 313 nm and that wavelengths below (shorter) than roughly 300 nm are more likely to cause a strong erythemal response or severe burning. UVB Narrow Band is in the 311-313 nm range and causes less burning than shorter wavelengths.

The area under the blue curve is UVB BB (Broadband) and as one can see, a significant amount of the energy of UVB BB is inside the area of the curve defining our skin’s tendency to burn.

UVB NB is not totally foolproof but one does have to work harder to get a sunburn!

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