Sunday, July 23, 2017

Basic Information You Need About Laser Treatment

By Jennifer Phillips


Laser treatments are using focused light that is tuned to specific wavelengths powerful enough in shaping diamonds and cutting steel. This allows surgeons to have high level precision when working by focusing small areas with less damage to surrounding tissues. Less swelling, pain and scarring is experienced compared to having traditional surgery.

Lasers are used for improving vision, treating nerve pains, removing kidney stones and prostate parts, and destroying precancerous growths, polyps and tumors. Other uses for laser treatment Richmond Hill are during the early stages of cancers such as cervical, penile, vaginal, vulvar and others. These could cauterize or seal body parts when needed.

Some patients have health conditions which can be aggravated when getting this treatment of their skin and eyes so they are advised against it. Having a poor overall health will also increase the risk of having complications. The doctors might recommend traditional surgery based on your overall health, age and healthcare plan including the price of this procedure.

Before you undergo in this procedure, make sure in having enough time to recover after undergoing operation by planning ahead. Request someone in your family or even a friend to accompany you in going home as the anesthesia and medications may still be affecting you. Precautions days before the surgery is advised such as not taking medications that can affect it.

Laser treatments have different techniques depending on what the procedure would be or how it will be used. An example is when treating a tumor, an endoscope inserted in your body is used to view the tissues and aim the laser at the tumor, shrinking or destroying it. If it is a cosmetic procedure then it would be directly applied to the skin.

Different procedures use different lasers like carbon dioxide that could make a shallow cut good against superficial cancers. Then argon can make a shallow cut also and could activate drugs which photosynthesize in a photodynamic therapy and is used in combination with chemotherapy so more cancer cell will be killed. Cold laser therapy is another that promotes tissue regeneration and is used when doing minor surgeries.

Some risks when undergoing a therapy of this kind are there such as infection, bleeding, scarring, pain and skin discoloration. The treatment might not get the permanent effect it intended, which makes repeated sessions a necessity. Some surgeries that uses general anesthesia put the patient at risk of having pneumonia, stroke, confusion, and heart attack.

Benefits of laser include more precision when compared with traditional surgical instruments and makes shorter and shallower cuts. The operations end sooner as well and staying the night at the hospital is not necessary anymore. A few hours only may be needed for recovery specially if using general anesthesia on your operation.

Recovery with this method is similar with the typical surgeries with few days of resting needed and taking of medication until you feel less discomfort. It varies also depending on the received therapy and the amount body parts affected with this procedure. Follow very closely the orders of your doctor so you can recover faster and could still do normally your daily routine while recovering.




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