Fractional Laser Assisted Delivery of Anesthetics IIIb

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study are to compare the efficacy of two different commercially available local anesthetics on AFXL pretreated skin and to assess the role of the application time in this technique.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Netherlands Institute for Pigment Disorders
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Carticaine; Epinephrine; Epinephryl borate; Lidocaine; Racepinephrine; Tetracaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Fitzpatrick skin type I or II

• Age ≥18 years

• Patient is willing and able to give written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• History of keloid or hypertrophic scar formation or complicated wound healing

• Presence of any active skin disease

• Known allergy to local anesthesia

• Pregnancy or lactation

• Incompetency to understand what the procedure involves

• Current complaints of chronic pain or other alterations in pain sensation (e.g. due to diabetes mellitus or lepra)

• Current treatment with systemic analgesics or other medication that can influence pain sensation

• Current treatment with anticoagulants

• Fitzpatrick skin type III-VI

• Excessive sun tan