Book Reviews

Dr. Fred Kahn has been actively involved in laser therapy for many years and is the founder of Meditech International in Toronto, Canada. The company has, beside a production unit, also two well visited clinics in the city. The equipment has a computerize

The body of knowledge regarding the properties and uses of laser devices continues to expand and improve our understanding of the mechanisms involved. Several recent developments have expanded and intensified interest in furthering clinical applications

“Lasers in Medicine and Dentistry” is a gargantuan attempt to cover, in a single publication, the use of low energy lasers in medicine and dentistry. Even with more than forty authors contributing to this book, it remains an ambitious effort to encapsulate

In 1967, Dr. Endre´ Mester (Hungary) wondered if the new ruby lasers (red light at 694 nm) would cause cancer. He shaved off the hair of mice, and irradiated one group, and not the other. The irrradiated mice did not get cancer, but their hair grew back