TOENAIL FUNGUS

OUR CLINIC HAS JUST INVESTED IN THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE IN THE TREATMENT OF TOENAIL NAIL FUNGUS WHICH IS THE Q-CLEAR LASER FROM ALMA LASERS.  WHAT MAKES THIS TREATMENT UNIQUE IS THAT EACH TOE IS TREATED WITH TWO SEPARATE AND UNIQUE LASERS IN EACH TREATMENT.  FIRST THE Q-SWITCHED LASER MODULE IS USED WHICH KILLS THE FUNGAL SPORES AND THEN THE ND:YAG 1064 LASER MODULE IS USED WHICH KILLS THE FUNGUS OR MYCELIUM. THIS LASER TECHNOLOGY INCREASES CLEAR NAIL IN PATIENTS DIAGNOSED WITH NAIL FUNGUS (ONYCHOMYCOSIS).

OUR OFFICE PROTOCOL IS 5 VISITS WITH ALL 10 TOES TREATED, SPACED AT ONE MONTH INTERVALS. THIS LASER IS VERY VERSATILE AS IT CAN ALSO PERFORM HAIR REMOVAL, TATOO REMOVAL, ETC., ALTHOUGH WE WILL NOT BE PERFORMING THESE PROCEDURES ON OUR PATIENTS.  THE MECHANISM HOW THE LASER WORKS IS THAT IT EMITS LIGHT ENERGY WHICH IS TRANSMITTED THROUGH THE NAIL PLATE TO THE NAIL BED WHERE IT IS ABSORBED BY THE PIGMENTED YEASTS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INFECTION.  THE ABSORBED ENERGY IS CONVERTED TO LOCALIZING HEATING WHCH KILLS THE INFECTING ORANISM AND RESULTS IN CLEARING THE SIGNS OF INFECTION OF THE NAIL.

BROUGHT TO YOU BY DR. HARDY AND MARZ HARDY, D.Ch., B.Sc., PODIATRIC MEDICINE, TORONTO CHIROPODIST AND TORONTO FOOT SPECIALIST AND THE TEAM FROM ACADEMY FOOT AND ORTHOTIC CLINICS

PROFESSIONAL FOOT CLINIC

416-465-8737

Toronto, ON Chiropodist Academy Foot and Orthotic

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