In order to remove your wrinkles, the older generation of lasers would literally have to burn all the skin off your face.
The closest thing to LED photomodulation is a controversial procedure called nonablative laser treatment, which uses heat to burn away subsurface skin so that new cells will replace it.
If skin needs to be shaved or cut away, usually the burn victim will require a skin graft to cover the defect, he said.
It can also cause the patient's skin to burn more easily in sunlight.
The simple sandals can also shield feet against the beach's hot sand, which might otherwise cause skin to burn and blister on your walk to the water.
Investors should take careful notice of the field of tissue regeneration: companies like Advanced Tissue Sciences (nasdaq: ATIS - news - people ) and Organogenesis (amex: ORG - news - people ) that try to use skin stem cells to create replacement skin for burn victims.
When a drug is likely to cause a severe side effect--say, an increased risk of heart attack, an allergic reaction that causes the skin to burn or liver failure--the standard practice is to warn patients and doctors about the product's labeling, and to send out warning letters to physicians who might prescribe the medicine.
It is important to mention that this condition is not a burn, but just a skin condition that develops as a result of chronic exposure to moderate heat.
Right now, the only medical device based on this technology being sold in the U.S. is a product called TransCyte, which creates artificial skin used for burn patients.
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The closest thing out there to LED photomodulation is a controversial procedure called nonablative laser treatment, which uses heat to burn away sub-surface skin so that new cells will replace it.
It caused her outer skin layer to deteriorate and burn off, leaving at least 60 percent of her body as an open wound.
While burn damage is normally patched with pieces of excess skin from a person's own body, this does not work if the whole face needs to be covered -- the skin of the entire back is less than half of what would be needed to cover the full face and scalp, Siemionow said.
As well being sold to the DERA, skin was also used within the Trust to investigate wound healing and the preparation of artificial skin, as well as the treatment of burn wounds.
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