Anti-Snoring Laser System
Fotona’s TimeWalker® II NightLase® platform has emerged as an indispensable ally of medical professionals seeking to address the symptoms of snoring. Snoring is one of the most common disruptors of a good night’s rest, affecting up to 30% to 50% of adults over the age of 50.
TimeWalker® II NightLase® is carefully designed and optimized to provide a clinically effective and minimally-invasive solution for reducing the intensity of snoring and related symptoms, such as daytime sleepiness, dry mouth and scratchy throat. By embracing this transformative technology, healthcare practices can expand their treatment repertoire and meet the growing demand for innovative, patient-friendly ways to alleviate snoring-related issues.
Offering a treatment approach that not only diminishes the symptoms of snoring but enhances the overall quality of a patient’s sleep, TimeWalker® II NightLase® is not just a laser device, it’s a strategic investment and an invaluable asset to every modern healthcare practice.
NightLase® Anti-Snoring Laser Treatment: a Minimally-Invasive Method for Improving Sleep Quality
The patented NightLase® procedure is a fast, minimally-invasive and patient-friendly laser treatment for snoring. It decreases the severity of snoring and increases the quality of sleep.
NightLase® is recommended if snoring is caused by vibration in the oropharynx. For patients suffering from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), laser treatment can serve as additional supportive treatment that enhances the benefits of other prescribed OSA therapies.
Key Advantages of NightLase® Anti-Snoring Laser Treatment:
• Fast, safe, and effective
• Minimally invasive with no downtime
• Reduces the symptoms of snoring
• Increases the quality of a patient’s sleep
• Complements other obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and snoring treatments
• High success rate and patient satisfaction
• Effectiveness confirmed in randomized sham-controlled clinical trial
• Extremely easy for any doctor or dentist to perform
Unique, Patented Fotona SMOOTH® Technology
Er:YAG laser energy in patented Fotona SMOOTH® mode is used to heat the soft palate and tonsillar pillars, causing a tightening effect that keeps the soft tissue inside the mouth from vibrating with airflow. The unique non-ablative SMOOTH mode is gentle enough to be used on this sensitive tissue, but strong enough to provide clinically efficacious heating.
Offer More to Your Patients with TimeWalker® II NightLase® DUO
Fotona’s advanced TimeWalker® II NightLase® DUO model not only tackles snoring and its symptoms but also supports ComfortLase™ photobiomodulation (PBM) therapy – a clinically proven, non-invasive solution for a wide variety of wound healing and pain management applications. PBM procedures are fast, simple, non-invasive and highly effective at pain reduction.
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Patients’ self-evaluation of snoring before and 3 months after treatment
Courtesy of: Picavet VA, Dellian M, Gehrking E, Sauter A, Hasselbacher K.
Laser source: Er:YAG (2940 nm)
Bed partners’ feedback on snoring before and 3 months after treatment
Courtesy of: Picavet VA, Dellian M, Gehrking E, Sauter A, Hasselbacher K.
Laser source: Er:YAG (2940 nm)
*Picavet VA, Dellian M, Gehrking E, Sauter A, Hasselbacher K. Treatment of snoring using a noninvasive Er:YAG laser with SMOOTH mode (NightLase): a randomized controlled trial. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2023 Jan;280(1):307-312.
SMOOTH mode is a Er:YAG treatment modality that delivers laser energy onto the skin in a fast sequence of low-fluence laser pulses inside an overall super-long pulse of 200-350 msec. Because SMOOTH pulses are longer than the epidermal TRT, the effect of SMOOTH mode is gentle coagulative heating of the skin without any significant ablation of the epidermis.
StarWalker features a FRAC3 pulse mode which utilizes the short submillisecond pulse duration and high peak power density at 1064 nm to produce a self-induced three-dimensional fractional pattern in the epidermis and dermis, with damage islands that are predominantly located at the sites of targeted skin imperfections. Key applications of the FRAC3 mode include skin rejuvenation and removal of thin hair.
EFC (Energy Feedback Control) technology is a core safety feature which actively monitors each individual pulse’s energy level to ensure that the output energy is exactly matched to the practitioner’s chosen parameters throughout the duration of each treatment session.
Fotona’s innovative FracTAT® technology, based on high-energy pulses of fractional Q-switched Nd:YAG laser, enables extremely high peak powers to be concentrated in a matrix of tiny spots, inducing fractional photoacoustic shockwaves below the tissue surface (non-ablative mode) or even micro-puncturing the tissue surface (ablative mode) when higher energies are used.
