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Laser medicine consists in the use of lasers in medical diagnosis, treatments, or therapies, such as laser photodynamic therapy.
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Lasers
Lasers used in medicine include in principle any type of laser, but especially:
- CO2 lasers, used to cut, vaporize, ablate and photo-coagulate soft tissue.
- diode lasers
- dye lasers
- excimer lasers
- fiber lasers
- gas lasers
- free electron lasers
- semiconductor diode lasers
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Applications in medicine
Examples of procedures, practices, devices, and specialties where lasers are utilized include:
- angioplasty
- cancer diagnosis
- cancer treatment
- cosmetic dermatology such as scar revision, skin resurfacing, laser hair removal, tattoo removal
- dermatology, to treat melanoma
- frenectomy
- lithotripsy
- laser mammography
- medical imaging
- microscopy
- ophthalmology (includes Lasik and laser photocoagulation)
- optical coherence tomography
- optogenetics
- prostatectomy
- plastic surgery, in laser liposuction
- surgery, to ablate and cauterize tissue
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See also
Media related to Laser medicine at Wikimedia Commons
- Dental laser
- Endovenous laser therapy
- Laser-assisted new attachment procedure
- Laser surgery
- Light therapy
- Low level laser therapy
- Photodynamic therapy
- Photomedicine
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References
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