Laser Surgery
Laser surgery is surgery using a laser (instead of a scalpel) to cut tissue. Examples include the use of a laser scalpel in otherwise conventional surgery, and soft-tissue laser surgery, in which the laser beam vaporizes soft tissue with high water content.
Indications :
Oral Cavity
- Benign Mucosal Lesion
- Leucoplakia, Melanopalikia, Erythroplakia (Premalignant lesions of oral cavity)
- Small early malignancies T1, T2 (Superficial Lesions)
- Buccal mucosa, Tongue, Lip, Palate (hard & soft), Alveolus-Lesion/Tumor.
- Debulking of advance lesion
- Recurrent local disease after surgery of Radiotherapy.
Oropharynx & Hypopharynx
- Benign cysts, polyps, nodules, Hemangiomas etc
- Tonsillectomy for lingual tonsils & carcinoma
- Palatouvuloplasty for Snoring
- T1/T2 lesions (Carcinoma)
- Recurrent lesion after Radiotherapy.
Larynx
- Recurrent respiratory layngeal papilloma
- Laryngeal-Tracheal Stenosis
- Nodules Vocal Cord, Reinke′s edema,
- Ca vocal cord (Glottic, early & advance)
- Ca Surpaglottis (Epiglottis, AE Fold, Arytenoid)
- Post Radiotherapy residual/recurrence
- Post Radiotherapy oedema (Presenting as dysphagia/dysnoea)
Plastic Surgery
- Melanomas (Superficial)
- Freckles
- Mole
- Burns (Superficial)
- Acne