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Laser for Hyperhidrosis?
asked 3 years ago by Mimi is S.Fla in Miami, Florida
Latest answer by Young R. Cho, MD, PhD
Question viewed 2,792 times
Tags: armpit, laser
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?
3 answers to Laser for Hyperhidrosis?
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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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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...
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Hratch Karamanoukian, MD
Buffalo General Surgeon
Buffalo General Surgeon
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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...
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Keith Denkler, MD
Marin Plastic Surgeon
Marin Plastic Surgeon