Articles / A Leading Expert Discusses Vaginal LASER Therapy… Is This Really an Effective Treatment for Menopausal Vulvovaginal Symptoms? | Part 1
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Gynaecologist and Laparoscopic Surgeon; Royal Hospital for Women; Professor of Gynaecological Surgery, UNSW
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• A woman doesn’t need to have atrophy to have vulvovaginal symptoms due to menopause.
• Fractionated laser treatments only damages approximately 4% of the vulvovaginal tissue, so there is no full thickness burn and it is quite superficial.
• The clinical presentation is about symptoms, and we must change those symptoms to be recommending this as a reasonable and worthwhile treatment, because it is also not cheap. The cost of the treatment needs to be taken into consideration as well.• The outcome of Prof. Abbott’s double-blind, randomised and placebo-controlled trial was that laser therapy is not any more effective than placebo for the management of vulvovaginal symptoms due to menopause.
• We have to go to the science and make sure that this is driving our care for patients.
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Gynaecologist and Laparoscopic Surgeon; Royal Hospital for Women; Professor of Gynaecological Surgery, UNSW
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