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January 14, 2018
Where’s the harm in hype?
Where’s the harm in hype? By Peter A. Jenkins I recently came across an article on the ‘Science-Based Medicine‘ website, and in it I found the following statement relating to the often-large disconnect between the evidence and the marketing claims in read more
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New Books!
New books The literature on LPT/PBM is not overwhelming, so all additions of reasonable quality are welcome. Here are a few recent books: 1) Laser phototherapy – clinical practice and scientific background Lars Hode, Jan Tunér (2014). A thorough read more
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Biolight Technologies – another confounder on the laser market
Biolight Technologies – another confounder on the laser market By Jan Tunér People hearing about the potential of PBM can a bit skeptical. From the very beginning, the least skeptical persons were those already convinced about the magic of crystals, read more
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Facts and myths about Low-Level Laser Therapy
Facts and myths about Low-Level Laser Therapy By Jan Tunér There are many myths and city tales about LLLT/PBM. Let us have a look on some of the most common ones! Magnets There are lasers where the light is combined read more
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PBM? Do you have any scientific references for your claims?
PBM? Do you have any scientific references for your claims? By Jan Tunér Not too seldom, non-believers in PBM will ask for references, having difficulties in accepting what you say. Providing such references can take time and you may not read more
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PBM for healing of dental root fractures
PBM for healing of dental root fractures By Martin Kaplan DMD, Stoughton, Ma., USA Therapeutic lasers are known to be able to heal perforations between the pulpal tissue and the tooth cavity (1-5). It is obvious that odontoblasts and pre-odontoblasts read more
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New and old books
New and old books By Jan Tunér “Nothing new under the sun”, they say. And indeed, using light to heal is nothing new. But an effort to present light therapy in a scientific way is not very old, but older read more
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The role of coherence in laser phototherapy
The role of coherence in laser phototherapy By Tomas Hode, PhD Introduction The importance of coherence and laser speckles in LPT has been discussed over the last 30 years. Coherence [1] is often defined as a property of wave-like states read more
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Marketing Gimmicks 2: Gilding the lily, or pulling the wool?
Marketing Gimmicks 2: Gilding the lily, or pulling the wool? By Peter A. Jenkins MultiRadiance Medical promotes their FDA-cleared devices as ‘super-pulsed lasers’, with optical output powers of up to “50,000 mW”. This is quite misleading, to say the read more
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