It the treatment of infertility for example, when a woman is suffering from endometriosis (an over growth of uterine tissues into other areas of the reproductive system, interfering with their operation) then a laparascopy procedure can allow a surgeon to use a laser within the patient’s body, removing the errant tissue and possibly restoring chances of conception.

Likewise, when normal conception is interfered with and egg fertilisation has to take place in a laboratory setting then the problem of the egg’s coating being too tough can prevent implantation in the mother’s body from succeeding.  Here a laser is used to make an opening in the shell, weakening it so that the embryo is more easily able to emerge and implant itself in the uterine wall.

This is only the impact of lasers in one area of medicine, there are many more to consider.  So unless technology continues to advance in these fields, you can see how many people’s lives would have been affected, or in the cases of thousands of children, never have happened at all.  Lasers clearly have more to offer medical advancement than just their use in tattoo removal.