12 types of laser are now being used in our
office surgery unit:
| Thermally designed lasers: |
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Selective photothermolysis lasers: |
- CO2 SilkTouch
- CO2 FeatherTouch.
- CO2 Erbium:YAG
- Con Bio
- Sciton (Contour™)
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- Candela Vbeam
- Aura KTP
- Q-Switched Ruby (Sinon)
- Nd:YAG Palomar
- Lumenis ONE™
- Universal IPL
- Multi-Spot Nd: YAG
- LightSheer Diode
- Sciton Profile
- Contour™-Erb: YAG
- ClearScan™-Nd: YAG
- ThermaScan™-1319-nm
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These lasers are used for the treatment of several skin
diseases:
| 1. Vascular Lesions of the skin
(Vbeam Dye Laser, Aura KTP, Profile/ClearScan™ 1064-nm
Nd :YAG, IPL Lumenis ONE™): |
- nevus flammeus (port-wine malformation)
- cherry hemangioma, venous lakes (lips)
- varicosities of lower extremities
- generalized facial erythema
- telangietatic vessel of the face (blemishes - rosacea)
- non specific telangiectatic vessel of the face
- vascular spider (nevus araneus)
- capillary hemangioma (strawberry mark)
- pyogenic granuloma
- poikiloderma (neck, chest)
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| 2. Skin Planing with Erbium:YAG
or CO2 Silk-FeatherTouch Laser (Laserbrasion): |
- acne scars
- wrinkles and fine lines (rejuvenation)
- rhinophyma (hypertrophic nose)
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| 3. Keloids
and Hypertrophic scars (CO2, Erbium:YAG and Vbeam). |
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| 4. Warts (CO2, Vbeam) |
- juvenile flat warts
- plantar warts
- periungual warts
- condylomas (moist warts, venereal warts)
- molluscum contagiosum
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| 5. Pigmented Benign Lesions
(Q-Switched Ruby, Palomar Nd:YAG, Profile/ClearScan™ 1064-nm
Nd:YAG, IPL Lumenis ONE™ lasers): |
- lentigines (actinic, age spots)
- freckles
- café-au-lait spots
- junctional flat pigmented naevi
- some types of superficial melasma
- pigmented congenital birth marks
- Becker's nevus
- nevus of OTA
- postinflammatory hyperpigmentation
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| 6. Precancerous Lesions (CO2
laser and Levulan + ClearLight): |
- actinic keratosis (sun induced)
- leukoplakia of lips, skin horns
- actinic cheilitis (lips)
- Bowen's disease (intraepidermal carcinoma)
- dysplastic nevus
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| 7. Cancerous Lesions (CO2 laser): |
- basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas
- melanoma and lentigo maligna
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| 8. Small Tumors and Superficial
Cysts (CO2 and Erbium:YAG lasers): |
- milium-cysts (large ones)
- syringomas (small cystic lesions of eyelids)
- dermatofibroma
- neurofibroma
- sebaceous cysts and epidermal cysts
- cysts of the mucous membrane of the mouth and the lips
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| 9. Nail Lesions (CO2 laser): |
- ingrown toenails
- onychomycosis (athletic foot-like fungus nail infection
resistant to oral antifungal medication)
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| 10. Nevoid Lesions (CO2, Erbium:YAG
(Con Bio or Profile/Contour™), Q-Switched Ruby, or Palomar
Nd:YAG and IPL Lumenis ONE™): |
- seborrheic keratosis (senile warts)
- sebaceous hyperplasia
- sebaceous nevus
- cellular intradermal nevus (non pigmented mole)
- pigmented junctional nevus and pigmented mole
- skin tag (acrochordon)
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| 11. Tattoos
(Q-Switched Ruby or Palomar Nd:YAG laser) |
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| 12. Laser Hair
Removal (IPL(HR), Profile/ClearScan™ 1064-nm Nd :YAG, LightSheer
Diode). |
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| 13. Tissue contraction
by the Thermage Method: Non Laser radiofrequency system, non
invasive and none ablative. |
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| 14. GentleWaves®
LED non-invasive Photomodulation® of peri-orbital wrinkles and
rhytids: Ref: Facial Rejuvenation |
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