Fractional Laser Assisted Delivery of Anesthetics III

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare the effect of pretreatment with two different ablative laser modalities, a CO2 laser and an Er:YAG laser, and to assess the role of laser density in fractional laser assisted topical anesthesia.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Netherlands Institute for Pigment Disorders
• Collaborator: Academisch Medisch Centrum - Universiteit van Amsterdam (AMC-UvA)
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Carticaine; Epinephrine; Epinephryl borate; Racepinephrine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Fitzpatrick skin type I or II

• Age ≥18 years

• Patient is willing and able to give written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• History of keloid or hypertrophic scar formation or complicated wound healing

• Presence of any active skin disease

• Known allergy to local anesthesia

• Pregnancy or lactation

• Incompetency to understand what the procedure involves

• Current complaints of chronic pain or other alterations in pain sensation (e.g. due to diabetes mellitus or lepra)

• Current treatment with systemic analgesics or other medication that can influence pain sensation

• Current treatment with anticoagulants

• Fitzpatrick skin type III-VI

• Excessive sun tan