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Article: Laser treatment to go: outpatient uses of healing light abound. (includes related article on light fantastic)
- Article from:
- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- October 1, 1987
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Laser Treatment to Go: Outpatient Uses of Healing Light Abound
"I pointed the disintegrator pistol downward and tickled the trigger . . .. Where the beam played, the floor dissolved,' said the title character of Buck Rogers, a 1929 comic strip set in the 25th century.
If Buck could come back from his fictional future to the nonfiction now, he'd no doubt be astounded at what's dissolved by laser beams today.
Indeed, medical uses for lasers abound. Certain skin defects are bloodlessly erased. Abnormal blood vessels in the eye are obliterated with minimal trauma to neighboring tissue. Deep within the body, too, via special instruments, lasers ...