Laser Surgery and Medicine

Laser in oral surgery and medicine — Part II

gery for a wide range of indications. In this article, we focus on its surgical uses. The success of the surgical treatment of lesions in the oral cavity depends greatly on knowledge of the aetiology and histology of the lesion. There are pathologies that can be treated with laser, such as cancer sores and hyperkeratosis. Others, like candidiasis, cannot be treated with laser. Furthermore, lase...

Medicine and Surgery

This Society, which has honoured me by electing me its President, is called the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society. The name implies that it concerns itself with both of the great branches of special knowledge with which we doctors have to do. I take as the subject of my address, " Medicine and Surgery." The term medicine has at least three Meanings. The first finds expression in the vernacular as

Bloodless Medicine and Surgery

Laser Medicine and Medical Imaging

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an emerging technology for micron-scale cross-sectional imaging of biological tissue [1, 2]. Enhancing the resolution of OCT images continues to be a very active field of research. The longitudinal resolution in OCT images is inversely proportional to the optical bandwidth and proportional to the square of the center wavelength of the light source. Ultrahig...

[Laser surgery].