Laser Education

During the past decade, laser technology has advanced to a level of precision that allows the non-invasive treatment for cosmetically enhancing procedures as well as serious medical conditions that in the past either had no effective remedy, or acceptable results could only be achieved through costly, painful or risky surgery.

To understand how this technology works, it is important to understand the technology itself, the tools of the trade, and protocols for their use in treating a wide variety of conditions.

A laser beam is very specific frequency of light that is monochromatic. It contains one precise wavelength of light. The wavelength of light, or frequency, is determined by the amount of energy released. The light released is also coherent and directional. It is “organized,” which means that all of the photons have wave fronts that launch in unison. This creates a tight beam that is highly concentrated and therefore able to precisely target a specific point.

When a particular frequency of light is directed at a specific tissue, it is absorbed by the naturally occurring pigment within that tissue. This remarkable process is called ‘selective thermolysis.’ In pigmented skin lesions, the targeted pigment is melanin, which after absorbing the laser’s energy will break up and disintegrate over the course of a few days, or turn into a scab and simply fall off in 1-3 weeks. In vascular lesions the laser energy is absorbed by the pigment in the hemoglobin, which instantly collapses and destroys the unwanted vein. Over the course of a few weeks the body simply dissolves and removes any remaining fragments of the destroyed vein.

Founder & CEO Asher Milgrom INTRODUCES AMA