The book focuses on the “Textbook of Lasers in Dermatology”. The book “Textbook of Lasers in Dermatology” has the intention of sharing with the Indian dermatologists, and with the entire world, a text which gathers the knowledge acquired and improved through time, and the successful ways of solving special situations. The book “Textbook of Lasers in Dermatology” has 38 chapters, with more than three hundred pages, that cover all aspects of laser treatment, starting with the basic aspects, and continuing with the different kinds of lasers and how they are adapted to dark skins. It is written by about sixty authors, all of them great experts in the laser world in a light and entertaining fashion, demonstrating the authors’ experiences with different aspects of this branch of dermatology. It provides us with a thorough review of this form of therapeutics. With very good and explicit illustrations, diagrams, and appropriate tables, they offer an extremely useful volume that will surely become a reference text. The high quality and academic authority of the authors are unquestionable, facts that back up their work.

Contents

Chapter 1 Advent and Evolution of Lasers in Dermatology
Chapter 2 Physics of Light and Laser-tissue Interactions
Chapter 3 Setting up a Laser Practice
Chapter 4 Ethical Issues in Laser Practice
Chapter 5 Preand Postoperative Care in Laser Surgery
Chapter 6 Anesthesia in Laser Practice
Chapter 7 Cooling Devices in Laser Practice
Chapter 8 Ablative Carbon Dioxide Lasers in Dermatology Practice
Chapter 9 Treatment of Benign Tumors of Skin with Carbon Dioxide Laser
Chapter 10 Laserand Light-assisted Hair Reduction: Principles and Options
Chapter 11 Intense Pulsed Light Therapy
Chapter 12 Laser Hair Removal: Diode Laser
Chapter 13 Laser Hair Reduction with Neodymium Doped Yttriumaluminium garnet Lasers
Chapter 14 Evidence Based Approach in Hair Reduction
Chapter 15 Lasers and Light for Pigmented Lesion: Opportunities and Limitations
Chapter 16 Evidence Based Approach for Hyperpigmentary Diseases by Laser
Chapter 17 Lasers for Tattoo Removal
Chapter 18 Laser and Light Treatment of Acne
Chapter 19 Principles of Vascular Lasers
Chapter 20 Pulsed Dye Laser for Vascular Lesions
Chapter 21 Intense Pulsed Light for Vascular Lesions
Chapter 22 Long-pulsed Neodymium Doped Yttrium-aluminium-garnet Laser for Treatment of Vascular Malformations
Chapter 23 Evidence Based Vascular Laser Treatment
Chapter 24 Scar Reduction: The Principles and The Options
Chapter 25 Nonablative Laser for Scar Reduction
Chapter 26 Fractional Carbon Dioxide Lasers for Scar Reduction
Chapter 27 Erbium Doped Yttrium-aluminiumgarnet Laser Treatment for Scars
Chapter 28 Evidence Based Approach to Laser Scar Reduction
Chapter 29 Excimer Lasers
Chapter 30 Endovenous Laser Ablation in the Treatment of Varicose Veins
Chapter 31 Laser Lipolysis
Chapter 32 Cryolipolysis: Hype or Hope
Chapter 33 Lasers in Onychomycosis
Chapter 34 Laser Training in India and the World
Chapter 35 When Lasers Go Wrong!
Chapter 36 Purchasing a Laser: Tips and Tricks
Chapter 37 Ethical Promotion on Social Media of Laser Facilities Offered by a Dermatologist
Chapter 38 What is New in Lasers?