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2. Photorejuvenation - Wikipedia

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   It is used for the treatment of wrinkles, solar lentigenes, sun damage, scarring (acne scars and surgical scars), stretch marks, actinic keratosis, and telangiectasias. It can be combined with liposuction to help tighten and smooth over the new contours after removal of excess fat. Resurfacing can be ablative, which vaporizes tissue and creates ...

3. Laser medicine - Wikipedia

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   Examples of procedures, practices, devices, and specialties where lasers are utilized include the following: angioplasty [15] cancer diagnosis [17] [18] cancer treatment [19] dentistry; cosmetic dermatology such as scar revision, skin resurfacing, laser hair removal, and tattoo removal [15] dermatology, [15] to treat melanoma; frenectomy ...

4. Laser surgery - Wikipedia

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   Laser surgery is a type of surgery that cuts tissue using a laser in contrast to using a scalpel. [1]Soft-tissue laser surgery is used in a variety of applications in humans (general surgery, neurosurgery, ENT, dentistry, orthodontics, [2] and oral and maxillofacial surgery) as well as veterinary [3] surgical fields.

5. Dermatologic surgical procedure - Wikipedia

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   Then, a thin piece of tissue is removed circumferentially around the tumour and sectioned with a cryostat microtome. This is followed by tissue processing and viewing under a microscope. If any residual tumour could be identified microscopically, the tumour site could be marked for further tissue removal.

6. Low-level laser therapy - Wikipedia

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   Whereas high-power lasers are used in laser medicine to cut or destroy tissue, it is claimed that application of low-power lasers relieves pain or stimulates and enhances cell function. Described sometimes as Low-level Red-light Therapy (LLRL), has effects that appear to be limited to a specified set of wavelengths and new research has ...

7. FDA warns of potential risk from Hologic's devices implanted ...

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   The company's devices, BioZorb Marker and BioZorb LP Marker, are implanted in soft tissue, including breast tissue, where the site needs to be marked for future procedures, such as radiation for ...

8. Carbon-dioxide laser - Wikipedia

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   Carbon-dioxide lasers have become useful in surgical procedures because water (which makes up most biological tissue) absorbs this frequency of light very well. Some examples of medical uses are laser surgery and skin resurfacing ("laser facelifts ", which essentially consist of vaporizing the skin to promote collagen formation). [ 9 ]

9. Arthrofibrosis - Wikipedia

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   Arthrofibrosis (from Greek: arthro-joint, fibrosis – scar tissue formation) has been described in most joints like knee, hip, ankle, foot joints, shoulder (frozen shoulder, adhesive capsulitis), elbow (stiff elbow), wrist, hand joints as well as spinal vertebrae. [1] [2] It can occur after injury or surgery or may arise without an obvious ...