What is FemTouch®?

Lumenis® Femtouch for Improved Vaginal Health

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Lumenis® Femtouch for Improved Vaginal Health

We are excited to introduce Femtouch by Lumenis, the leader in female wellness and Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation.

With age and after childbirth, women start noticing symptoms related to their vaginal health that affect their quality of life and lifestyle. FemTouch addresses vaginal health related conditions by promoting the remodeling and rejuvenation of vaginal mucous layer. FemTouch is a safe and comfortable out-patient procedure, enabling your physician to offer you remarkable results just within several brief sessions lasting a few minutes each.

Amongst the many issues FemTouch can address include stress urinary incontinence, dyspareunia (pain with sex), vaginal dryness , and coarse internal vaginal tissue.  With up to three treatments, you can rejuvenate the internal and external vaginal tissue to reverse the affects of aging.  

We always worry about our external appearance.  Let’s take some time to think about our most intimate areas that are equally important to our lives.

You are invited to a private, confidential consultation with one of our medical professionals to see if this treatment could be right for you.  Call us at  480-771-2819

Epidemiology of Vulvo Vaginal Atrophy (VVA)

Vulvo vaginal atrophy (VVA) affects up to 80% of post-menopausal women. The symptoms primarily include vaginal dryness, irritation, itching, dysuria, and dyspareunia. These symptoms can adversely affect interpersonal relationships, quality of life and sexual function. The main cause for VVA is a drop in estrogen levels during menopause. The change in estrogen level causes the vaginal lining to become thinner, dryer and less elastic. As the urinary tract is also estrogen dependent and since the urethral epithelium originates from the same embryologic tissue as the vaginal epithelium, women with VVA may also have symptoms such as urge incontinence (UI) or stress urinary incontinence (SUI).

The Efficacy of Co2 Laser in the Treatment of VVA

Laser-based technologies and especially fractional CO2 lasers, have been proven to be safe and effective for a range of indications involving tissue remodeling over the past few decades.  Recent scientific literature shows that treatment with fractional CO2 lasers can be used also for treatment of vaginal health related conditions and specifically that it significantly improves symptoms of VVA in post- menopausal women.  In addition to symptoms improvement, histological data indicate that fractional CO2 lasers cause a thickening and a restoration of the vaginal mucosa.

The Femtouch Procedure

• FemTouchTM is a new procedure for treatment of vaginal health related conditions using a dedicated vaginal probe used in conjunction with the AcuPulse fractional CO2 laser system
• FemTouchTM delivers low continuous wave CO2 energy levels in a fractional pattern along the vaginal lining. Uniform delivery of the fractional pattern is achieved through a unique scanner designed to scan microbeams of 210μm each in a controlled and uniform manner
• Controlled small ablation/coagulation zones are created in the lamina propria using energy levels from 7.5 to 12.5mJ. The restriction of these parameters allow to provide effective vaginal remodeling process while limiting penetration depth to up to 600μm to ensure bromuscular layer safety. The fractional scanning pattern enables a quicker vaginal tissue healing
• To complement the intra-vaginal treatment, an optional external treatment of the introitus and vaginal vestibule is possible using the AcuScan 120 Microscanner
• In order to achieve optimal results, typically 2-4 treatment sessions are required at 4 week interval
• The FemTouchTM procedure is short and takes approximately 5 minutes to complete (full scan along the vaginal wall)

Watch a live FemTouch procedure performed by our lead nurse practitioner, Charity.

See how FemTouch Vaginal Rejuvination works.