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Laser therapy is any treatment using intense beams of light to precisely cut, burn, or destroy tissue. The term laser is an acronym for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation."
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Laser Therapy of the Cervix
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Other types of treatment are being tested in clinical trials.
Patients have special nutritional needs during treatment for esophageal cancer.
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Laser therapy is quickly becoming a prominent and much-desired player in the field of skin treatment and many clinics promise painless laser removal of wrinkles, spots, moles and other blemishes.
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Laser therapy can only stop the progression of diabetic retinopathy. It cannot reverse the damage already done.
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Laser therapy. This procedure is performed similarly to other heat therapies, except it uses a laser instead of microwave energy, radio waves or electrical current to produce heat. It generally doesn't cause impotence or prolonged incontinence.
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Laser therapy is effective for removing telangiectasias that may remain after the hemangioma has involuted.
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, which is reserved for the most stubborn warts
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Proliferative disease and macular edema (swelling or leaking of the main part of the retina) can be treated with laser therapy (photocoagulation).
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Surgical treatments include cryosurgery, electrocauterization, laser therapy, or cutting them out.
If you develop genital warts, all of your sexual partners must be examined by a health care provider and treated if genital warts are found.
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LTK (laser thermal keratoplasty) procedure Noninvasive laser therapy which reshapes the cornea of the eye for correction of hyperopia (farsightedness), presbyopia (aged-related loss of focus) and overcorrection from PRK and LASIK procedures.
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Surgical treatments include cryosurgery, electrocauterization, laser therapy, or surgical excision.
Sexual partners need to be examined by a health care provider and treated if warts are noted.
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Radiation therapy, the placement of stents inside the airways, or laser therapy are sometimes used but are less common than surgery or chemotherapy.
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Some people with severe scarring acne need powerful medicines supplied by hospital skin specialists to control acne, and laser therapy to reduce the scars.
This article was last medically reviewed by Dr Rob Hicks in December 2005.
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removal techniques such as shaving, depilatories (chemicals that break down the structure of the hair), tweezing, waxing, electrolysis (destruction of the hair root by an electrical current), or the destruction of hair follicles by laser therapy.
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It is a safe, drug-free method of smoking cessation method. The laser's light is helpful in controlling the smoking addiction and enhancing relaxation. One of the pioneers of this treatment method is Alpha Laser Therapy ...
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The so-called port-wine stains and strawberry marks involve vascular tissue. The flat port-wine stains can be made lighter with the use of laser therapy. The strawberry marks generally disappear a few years after birth.
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