Effects of low-level laser therapy on wound healing
Andrade Fdo S, Clark RM, Ferreira ML
Revista do Colegio Brasileiro de Cirurgioes · 55 citations
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How it was studied
- Design
- Systematic review (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People, plus animal or lab work
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Funding not disclosed
Publication
- Published
- 2014-04-01 · Rev Col Bras Cir · vol. 41 · issue 2 · pp. 129–133
- Publisher
- Brazilian College of Surgeons
- Cited
- 144 citations · more than 92% of similar papers · 3.4× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 31 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY-NC
- Research areas
- Laser Applications in Dentistry and Medicine · Wound Healing and Treatments · Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation
- Keywords
- Wound healing, Low level laser therapy, Laser therapy, Medicine, MEDLINE, Portuguese, Laser, Medical physics, Surgery, Optics, Biology, Physics
- MeSH
- animals, humans, wound healing, low-level light therapy
3 authors
From BR
- Fabiana do Socorro da Silva Dias Andrade
- Rosana Maria de Oliveira ClarkUniversidade Estadual de Santa Cruz
- Manoel Luiz FerreiraUniversidade Estadual de Santa Cruz
Abstract
Objective
To gather and clarify the actual effects of low-level laser therapy on wound healing and its most effective ways of application in human and veterinary medicine.
Methods
We searched original articles published in journals between the years 2000 and 2011, in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese languages, belonging to the following databases: Lilacs, Medline, PubMed and Bireme; Tey should contain the methodological description of the experimental design and parameters used.
Results
doses ranging from 3 to 6 J/cm(2) appear to be more effective and doses 10 above J/cm(2) are associated with deleterious effects. The wavelengths ranging from 632.8 to 1000 nm remain as those that provide more satisfactory results in the wound healing process.
Conclusion
Low-level laser can be safely applied to accelerate the resolution of cutaneous wounds, although this fact is closely related to the election of parameters such as dose, time of exposure and wavelength.
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