Mona Lisa Laser Treatment For Lichen Sclerosus

The only current effective mode of treatment is daily vulvar steroid creams.

Mona lisa laser treatment for lichen sclerosus. Goldstein at marinoff sc christopher k. A doctor might not immediately prescribe you to go for laser surgery and even those experts who have done extensive research in the field believe that a patient must try to go for the cream based method first. About two weeks later i then follow this treatment. The protocol treatment for lichen sclerosis vulvar pain disorders.

In addition to restoring vaginal health the monalisa touch may treat urinary incontinence interstitial cystitis and lichen sclerosus a skin condition that affects external vulvar structures. Prevalence of vulvar lichen sclerosus in a general gynecology practice. Flare ups can be devastating for women. Lichen sclerosus et atrophicus.

Femilift or mona lisa touch laser therapy has been used for several years outside of the united states. I begin with a prp treatment to the entire affected area to activate growth factors and neovasculogenesis. I m not sure where you re located but there is an office in both abilene texas and dallas texas i believe. What is the laser treatment of lichen sclerosus.

How does the monalisa touch work. Specifically two small studies demonstrated that fxco 2 therapy appears to be a promising treatment modality to treat lichen sclerosus. I too tried the mona lisa touch treatment for lichen sclerosus. They summarized five papers two of them published in 2016 in the australasian dermatology and in the journal of gynecological surgery demonstrating significant improvements in lichen sclerosus with fractionated co2 such as we can do with the mona lisa touch laser.

Recently microablative fractional co 2 laser treatment fxco 2 smartxide 2 v 2 lr laser system for monalisa touch deka florence italy has been proposed for the management of ls. Wish i had not had it done. Thank you and i will keep you informed on how things go. If there is no significant improvement through that process a medical practitioner.

Trans st johns hosp dermatol soc. There is evidence that monalisa touch laser therapy used externally on the vulvar tissue can improve and relieve symptoms. I have squamous cell cancer. Surgery is on the horizon for me.

The laser procedure i m having is called mona lisa touch. I ve never used it on my lichen patients even though i have a co2 laser in my office because the patients who ve had laser treatment that i ve seen have told me it made symptoms worse. Twenty seven hundred dollars out of pocket. A specially designed round device is inserted into your vagina where it emits the laser beams.

Nevertheless our clinical results in this case series are encouraging.