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Good morning Raquel, please tell us
what moves you to do this consultation?
- I came here to have
the onychomycosis on my nails treated.
- So far I did a lot of treatment.
For seven months I took oral medication (Lamisil)
which gave me no results at all and besides
I had stomach problems continuously,
nausea so I quit the treatment.
Then, I went to other dermatologist
which treated me with different types of lacques
for several months
even years and I also had no results.
- After that, I was hopeless
cause I didn`t know what else to do
with the fungus on my nails,
specially in summer when I was using sandals
which was not aesthetic at all
and on top of that I felt a lot of discomfort.
- Then one day I read in a magazine that
the Ricardo Hoogstra`s Clinical Aesthetic Center
they treated this type of nail infection
So I got an appointment for consultation.
- I started the treatment some weeks ago
and now I am getting to the end of it,
after several sessions I really notice
how my nails improved, really improved.
- Finally, I found a place where to treat
succesfully my onychomycosis.
Tell the audience who usually do not know
anything about this treatment
how did you feel during the treatment
- The first time, I felt
some discomfort during the treatment
because of the small heat the laser produces,
but after leaving the treatment room,
i felt nothing at all, no pain or discomfort.
Just during treatment you feel some discomfort.
Ok, lets see how your nails looked like
before the treatment.
This picture shows your nails
after the seventh session.
And this is after the seventh session.
Lets look at other pictures,
you can see the improvement.
- Yes, on another hand I clearly notice
the nail color change.
Before the treatment was a yellowish color
and now is much more transparent.
Look here you really notice a change
on this one.
Yes, they look healthy.
Ok, now in order for the people to have an idea
of how the treatment is performed,
we`ll do a treatment session now.
The patient is now on the patient bed
using laser protection goggles.
The treatment is performed like this.
When the patient starts feeling discomfort
because of the laser,
We move the laser around the area of the nail
we stop and move to the next nail.
so the fungus slowly starts to heat up
and denaturalize its proteins
and then produce death of the fungus
by photo thermolisys.
So we keep moving
until the patient complains and then we stop.
We treat all nails even the healthy ones.