LASERS, LIGHTS AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES IN COSMETIC DERMATOLOGY

doi:10.4066/2591-7951-C5-015

LASERS, LIGHTS AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES IN COSMETIC DERMATOLOGY

Joint Event on International Congress on DERMATOLOGY AND TRICHOLOGY & 2^nd WORLD NEPHROLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS CONGRESS
September 20 - 21, 2018 | Rome , Italy

T A Rana

Goodwill Hospital and Research Institute, India

Posters & Accepted Abstracts : Arch Gen Intern Med

DOI: 10.4066/2591-7951-C5-015

Abstract:

Lasers have been widely used in dermatology for almost 50 years. Selective targeting of the skin chromophores allowed practitioners to treat many skin conditions which were difficult or had no available treatment until introduction of selective photothermolysis in the early 1980s. The demand for laser surgery has increased substantially in the past few years. Refinements in laser technology have provided patients and dermatologists with more therapeutic choices and improved clinical results. Innovations have allowed the range of conditions and the skin types suitable to treatment, including vascular and pigmented lesions, scars, tattoos, improvement of photoaging, and hair removal. More recently, fractionated laser devices were developed which contributed to higher efficacy and safety especially for higher skin types. We present the basic concepts of lasers and tissue optics and the different laser types, which are classifield according to their tissue target and tissue interactions, such as vascular, pigment, photoepilation and resurfacing lasers. Non-laser technologies such as intense pulsed light, radio frequency, ultrasound and cryolipolysis are also discussed.

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