Laser application for plastic surgery
- Author:
Duyet Cong Tran
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
plastic surgery
- MeSH:
Surgery, Plastic;
Laser Surgery;
surgery;
therapeutics
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
2002;435(11):2-9
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
LASER is an abbreviation of English sentence: "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation". The first Ruby laser was been constructed successfully in July 1960 by American physicist Theodore Maiman. Just after this event laser has been applied in medicine (1962) initially in ophthalmology and dermatology. Up to now many kinds of laser have been constructed with technological excellence to meet requirements of physiotherapy and surgery. In plastic surgery, the laser application is slowed respect to in the other surgical branches. In this paper the author try to describe the interaction mechanism of laser radiation on the living creatures as well as the popular laser types used in treatment. In Vietnam, high power lasers have been applied since 1992, mostly CO¬2 lasers. Some Nd-YAG and argon lasers are used in several hospitals and clinics. In Center for Bio-medical Physics CO¬¬2¬¬ and Nd: YAG lasers have been used in general and plastic surgery since 1992. 4182 cases were treated mainly for aesthetic purposes, particularly: epidermal and subdermal vascular lesions, dermal pigment lesions, dermal tumors. ¬
