• Question: Are lasers involved in operations or plastic surgery etc?

    Asked by wentwardroyalchant to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 27 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by doctormd13.
    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      Tom?

    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      Yes. Any hospital you go into will have a cutting laser used in surgery. They are better than scalpels for many procedures because they don’t go blunt and they coagulate the blood vessels, reducing the amount of bleeding.

      Lasers are also used to break up kidney stones and we have a laser that is used by a plastic surgeon to reduce the appearance of some scars or other bumpy bits on the skin.

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