Podlase
CO2 Podiatry Surgical Laser
The spectral absorption of water provides the CO2 Podiatry Surgical Laser with the ability to coagulate, vaporize, or cut, tissue depending on the power density and the energy level applied by the surgeon. When the laser beam is defocused, the laser vaporizes the soft tissue, and when the laser is focused the laser can cut like scalpel.
The laser beam is a highly concentrated and powerful beam of light that interacts with tissue in some extraordinary ways. Surgeons use CO2 lasers because of their outstanding precision. The laser beam is so accurate that an area less than one millimeter in diameter can be treated, while scarcely affecting surrounding tissue.
Benefits of CO2 Podiatry Surgical Laser
Laser surgery has a number of advantages over traditional cutting and cauterizing surgical techniques in that there is little or no bleeding, virtually no swelling, minimal pain for patients post-surgically, and such precision that only diseased tissue is removed.
The Miran CO2 Surgical Laser, for example, produces minimal swelling and scarring compared to conventional methods, and frequently reduces the length of surgery and postoperative healing. The procedures are generally less painful and, therefore, reduce the necessity of anesthesia.
Treating Verrucae with the Podiatry CO2 laser
Since warts in the foot area are reoccurred frequently; treatment of verrucae is frustrating for the patient. The use of liquid nitrogen on plantar warts, in most cases is not effective, and the patient may have to pay several visits to the podiatrist's office to get a temporary relief. The most effective form of treatment for warts seems to be the CO2 Podiatry Laser by reducing the number of treatments, and avoiding surgical procedure in selected cases. The patients may experience further benefits due the laser's precision such as minimal bleeding (the laser seals small blood vessels), no burning, (healthy tissues adjacent to the verrucae are unaffected), contact free surgery (causing less edema and surgical trauma), and reduced chance for infection (the laser sterilizes the treated area due to high energy levels).
