Postoperative Helium-Neon-Laser Irradiation in the Face and Neck Region

Soft lasers (i.e. He-Ne lasers of 2 mW and 5mW output respectively, lent by the firm of Silberbauer ) have been in use at this clinic for the last six years. Beside our own animal experiments (Strassl et al. 1983) and electron microscopy studies (Schenk et al. 1986, Porteder et al. 1986) and on the basis both of relevant literature (Kovacs et al. 1974, Mester et al. 1974, Ilaina et al. 1981, Silberbauer 1984, Mester A.F. and Mester A. 1986, Hubacek et al. 1986, Kovy et al. 1986, Benodicenti 1986) and of initial clinical results (Porteder et al. 1983), which would seem to indicate that healing is promoted, we have been using the low-power laser to an increasing extent in clinical praetice.