Early Intervention With Non-ablative Fractional Laser to Reduce Cutaneous Scarring

Bispebjerg Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cicatrix

Treatments: Device: non-ablative laser

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02645773

Early intevention

Details and patient eligibility

About

To investigate intervention with early application of non-ablative laser to prevent scarring in the skin

Full description

To intervene in scar formation at three different time-points

Enrollment: 16 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• good health
• men
• Skin type 2-3
• non-smokers
• presenting full medical record

Exclusion criteria

• active skin disease in test area
• resent UV-exposure in test area
• history of keloid
• current or resent cancer
• uncontrolled systemical disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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16 participants in 4 patient groups

Pre-laser

Experimental group

Description:

non-ablative laser Laser Pre-wounding low dose laser Pre-wounding medium dose laser Pre-wounding high dose

Treatment:

Device: non-ablative laser

Immediate-laser

Experimental group

Description:

non-ablative laser Laser low dose - immediate after wounding Laser medium dose - immediate after wounding Laser high dose - immediate after wounding

Treatment:

Device: non-ablative laser

Post-laser

Experimental group

Description:

non-ablative laser Laser low dose - post wounding Laser medium dose - post wounding Laser medium dose - post wounding

Treatment:

Device: non-ablative laser

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Untreated control wound