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Laser for Hyperhidrosis?

Last week on the TV show The Doctors, a doctor from California appeared treating excessive under arm sweating with laser. Does this procedure really work? Does anyone know a doctor in South Florida who does this hyperhidrosis treatment?

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4 Doctor Answers | Asked by Mimi is S.Fla in Miami, Florida
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Laser for Hyperhidrosis of the Underarms

This procedure was described recently and I consider it experimental. It has been done by doctors in the Whitely Clinic in London, and is in my opinion, not considered standard of care in the U.S. Consider it like laser liposution 5 years ago in the U.S. It was being used as a marketing tool as it is chic to use lasers for everything, sometimes even if efficacy has not been proven. There is only case reports about this treatment strategy in the scientific hyperhidrosis literature. A case... more
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Laser for Hyperhidrosis

Because hyperhidrosis is such a problem for many people, all sorts of surgical treatments have been tried. These early surgical efforts used the only methods available. They included removal of the axillary skin and skin grafting!, and attempts to destroy the sweat glands by scraping under the skin (curettage), use of vaser ultrasound, 1064 YAG laser, and most recently Smartlipo Triplex/SideLaze 1440 laser. While there is novelty to the idea of using a laser to remove sweat glands, there... more
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Laser for hyperhidrosis - might be hype

There have been reports that ultrasound or laser can help hyperhidrosis. The challenge i see for both techniques is that you have be able to provide selective injury to the undersurface of the skin without causing a full-thickness injury. Axillary shaving where you physically excise and remove the sweat glands without injuring the skin has been shown to be highly effective in providing a permanent reduction to armpit sweating.
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Smartlipo Laser Can Help Armpit Hyperhidrosis

Hypersecreting sweat glands of the armpits have been treated with topical medications such as aluminum chloride. Other cases have been treated with BOTOX inections. Thoracoscopic Sympathectomy involves cutting nerves in the chest that cause the excessive sweating. For decades surgical removal with curretage has helped those with excessive axillary sweating. Liposuction of the sweat glands also is effective. The liposuction is delivered upward to the glands and not... more
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