laser medicine

Title: laser medicine Category: Health & Fitness / Beauty Clicks: 0 Listing added: Sep 1, 2010 PageRank: 0/10

The single most significant advance in the use of medical lasers was the concept of “pulsing” the laser beam, which allowed selective destruction of abnormal or undesired tissue, while leaving surrounding normal tissue undisturbed. The first lasers to fully exploit this principal of “selective thermolysis” were the Pulsed Dye Lasers introduced in the late 1980s for the treatment of port wine stains and strawberry marks in children, and shortly after, the first Q-switched lasers for the treatment of tattoos. Scanned, pulsed lasers revolutionized the practice of plastic and cosmetic surgery by making safe, consistent laser resurfacing possible, as well as increasing public awareness of laser