Aesthetic medicine is a rapidly evolving discipline with new products and technology appearing all the time and the availability and desire for treatments ever increasing.
Lasers have been used for cosmetic purposes for more than 30 years and there have been significant advances, meaning procedures are safer, more effective and there are more indications for their use. Lasers are used for various medical and cosmetic indications including permanent hair reduction, pigmentation, tattoo removal, skin tightening and collagen remodelling, removal of skin lesions, vascular lesions, scarring, thread veins and vaginal rejuvenation.1
The word laser is an acronym for light amplification by the stimulated emission of radiation, where light is part of the electromagnetic spectrum and includes visible light, ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths.1 There are many different types of lasers, dependent on…
