Handpiece for laser device
AssigneeIntermedic Arfran, S.A.
InventorFrancisco Javier ARCUSA VILLACAMPA
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Abstract
An electro-mechanical-type handpiece is specially designed to be used with a laser Generator, particularly those that use a CO2 laser and provide a laser beam in fractional mode. The fractional mode laser beam is provided in a pattern of homogeneous points aligned in rows, columns or diagonally, and such a pattern allows internal tissue along an entire length of a vagina of a patient to be treated and a pelvic floor of the patient to be retracted, such that a urinary bladder of the patient is elevated and, owing to the change in angle thereof, slight or moderate losses of urine are resolved or improved. In addition, the device can be used to treat the inner surface of the vagina of the patient, reducing vaginal laxity caused by childbirth and age.
Claims9
A handpiece for a laser device for supplying a laser beam in fractional mode and which is adapted to provide energy impacts on a specified area inside a vagina, the energy impacts comprising small burns which follow a certain pattern of homogeneous burn points aligned in rows, columns or diagonally so that the pattern of burn points stimulates tissue adjacent to these burn dots which causes the tissue to stretch, the handpiece being configured to be coupled to a barrel of a laser generator, wherein the handpiece comprises:
- a revolving mechanism with an essentially cylindrical configuration, which defines a proximal portion presenting a circular crown delimiting an entrance to which the barrel of a laser generator may be coupled, and a distal portion, having the same diameter as the proximal portion, wherein an open proximal end of a cylindrical part is coupled to an inner lateral side of the revolving mechanism;
- the cylindrical part being hollow inside, wherein the inner lateral surface of the revolving mechanism is in direct contact with an outer lateral surface of the proximal end of the cylindrical part, the cylindrical part being closed at a distal end and comprises:
- an opening in a portion of a surface near the distal end, and
- a one-face reflector mirror inside the cylindrical part, wherein the mirror is angled approximately 45° with respect to a longitudinal axis, the mirror being located in an interior portion of the cylindrical part coinciding with the opening, and being secured to the interior of the distal end of the cylindrical part by a support means;
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- an annular-shaped guide element, which is displaceably attached to a portion of the cylindrical part that is not directly coupled to the revolving mechanism.
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