Patent ID: 9333036
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: A61B

Claim Text:
1. A method of treating a vocal fold pathology, comprising: focusing pulsed laser light using a lens into a sub-epithelial focal volume of the vocal fold; wherein the pulse duration of the laser light is a nanosecond or less and wherein the pulsed light has a wavelength of between 600 nm and 2250 nm; wherein the focused pulsed laser light ablates sub-epithelial tissue of the vocal fold in the focal volume to form a sub-epithelial void in the vocal fold and wherein tissue ablation caused by the laser light of the vocal fold tissue is confined to the sub-epithelial focal volume; and directing a substance into the sub-epithelial void, wherein the substance is confined within the sub-epithelial void to treat the vocal fold pathology.