Laser is one of the great marketing tools of medical history.
It can bounce beams off the moon, destroy enemy satellites in orbit around the earth, and burn through the hardest substances known to man. Read on, and learn the real history of laser in varicose veins. I've been treating varicose veins since 1979. The laser in use at that time was called the CO 2 laser, or carbon dioxide laser. It produced an intensely hot, white beam of light which could cut through human flesh.