1999 Volume 11 Issue 2 Pages 96-102
It is well accepted that with lasers, there are two modalities of treatment. One is the use of the photobiodestructive effect, as for example, in laser surgery where high reactive level laser therapy (HLLT) is used as a scalpel, and the other is the use of the photobioactivating effect, otherwise known as low reactive level laser treatment or laser therapy (LLLT)(1-8). Since October 1996, we have performed laser therapy as an adjunctive treatment to 73 female patients being treated for infertility either by artificial insemination or by other assisted reproduction treatments (ART). The average age of the patients was 39.3 years, the average period of treatment prior to this study was 8.98 years. The average number of ART was 15 times. Two types of lasers; the 632.8nm, helium-neon laser and the 830nm diode laser were used in this study. An average of 21 laser treatment sessions was performed on the patients resulting in 14 confirmed pregnancies and 11 live births.
