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Shortly after this, we set up an American company, DermaLase Inc., based in Boston, to service the US market. We achieved FDA approval via our clinical collaborator in Chicago, Dr Jerry Garden.
The world's first commercial QS ruby laser for tattoo removal - the DLR-1. This was our 1996 model!! A real beaut...
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Whilst at Canniesburn Hospital, I also worked in the Port Wine Satin removal program using a pulsed dye laser from Candela (the second laser that company ever made, by Dr Horace Furomoto (in his garage, allegedly!!).
My boss, Plastic Surgeon Mr Bill Reid, wanted to remove PWS from children without scarring. In the video below, we see him and my colleague, Dr Brid McKibben, using her automated scanning system to deliver the dye laser pulses to the skin.
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Whilst treating many, many tattoos, we noticed that the ruby laser also vaporised hair. At that time, we were at pains to inform our patients that their hair would definitely grow
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