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Laser surgery is a type of surgery that uses a laser (in contrast to using a scalpel) to cut tissue.

Examples include the use of a laser scalpel in otherwise conventional surgery, and soft-tissue laser surgery, in which the laser beam vaporizes soft tissue with high water content.

Laser surgery is commonly used on the eye. Techniques used include LASIK, which is used to correct near and far-sightedness in vision, and photorefractive keratectomy, a procedure which permanently reshapes the cornea using an excimer laser to remove a small amount of the human tissue.^[1][2][3]

Types of surgical lasers include carbon dioxide, argon, Nd:YAG laser, and Potassium titanyl phosphate, from among others.

Contents

• 1 Effects
• 2 Equipment
• 3 Applications
  • 3.1 Soft tissue
    • 3.1.1 Dermatology and plastic surgery
    • 3.1.2 Eye surgery
    • 3.1.3 Endovascular surgery
    • 3.1.4 Foot and ankle surgery
    • 3.1.5 Gastro-intestinal tract
    • 3.1.6 Oral and dental surgery
    • 3.1.7 Spine surgery
    • 3.1.8 Other surgery
  • 3.2 Hard tissues
• 4 References