The Many Uses Of Medical Lasers
It's been no less than twenty years since medical lasers have started being used
by professional practitioners , and still more and more applications are designed and improved , as research devises new uses for this extremely versatile tool. Quite the career for lasers, when we stop to take into consideration that, twenty years ago when they first were suggested as a potential medical device, many professionals, doctors and experts vehemently shook their heads at the mere idea, citing possible dangers and classifying them as no more than a fashion. It was the solid string of successes that brave experimenters secured, though, as they tried new wavelengths and new applications of laser, that overcame every doubt and made this method recognized, accepted, and finally outright required by patients of the most various kinds.
This brings us to the situation we face today, where we can easily find hundreds of different specific uses of laser in a medical setting, not to mention a vast mass of people - we could even say the general public - having conquered fears and concerns regarding this kind of treatment and actively seeking it. Such diffusion has also had another significant benefit in widening the market, and thus lowering prices, which started out quite on the higher side, to far more easily achievable levels.
The strongest point that laser can boast, among many, would probably have to be the extreme accuracy that it can offer. Such trait is what in fact allows laser to be so flexible, and find use in so many different kind of fields and applications. Actually, hardly any other methods can be used in such a great variety of ways and for so may applications: laser finds application in cosmetic procedures as well as in life-saving interventions, with equally excellent results. Here is a short summary of some of the most common uses to which medical lasers have been successfully put:
- Burn/Wound Healing: Laser has been demonstrated to heal burns and wounds at a considerable speed;
- Laser Liposuction: Laser can liquefy the excess fat deposits in your body, which can then be sucked out through a tiny thin pipe. Losing inches and weight has never been so easy and so painless;
- Bone Healing : still being tested in the field, this potential application is based on experimental data indicating that the use of laser during the casting process may help broken bones heal faster;
-Neck & Shoulder Pain Healing: This painful, and unfortunately very common, condition has been successfully addressed with low-level laser technology since at least 2002, with the full approval of the FDA;
- Hair Removal: No other techniques of excess, unwanted hair removal have proven as quick, painless and permanent as the application of laser;
- Spine Treatment: Spinal fusions can cause severe pain in the lower and upper back, and in the neck. Laser offers an effective treatments for this ailment.
- Skin Rejuvenation: By revitalizing the deeper layers of the skin through heat generation, and burning away the surface layers of the skin accurately, laser can stimulate the production of far more collagen in the skin, leading to reduced wrinkles and lines.
- Eye Surgery: by now a common therapy, laser procedure can bring back sight to eyes which were virtually blinded by several kinds of issues.
by: Zack Sesareo
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