A brief literature review and own clinical experience in preventing oral mucositis in children using low level laser therapy
The article describes the experience of clinical application of low-level laser therapy in pediatric oncology for the prevention and treatment of chemotherapy complications such as oral mucositis. For this, for the first time in the world noninvasive laser blood illumination is symmetrically used on the sinoca-rotid zone (on the projection of the common carotid artery symmetrically) and popliteal fossa in order to stimulate the phagocytic activity of leukocytes. None of the 23 children who underwent laser therapy course had any complications: 6 children aged 7 to 17 years (mean age 13.5 years) with osteogenic sarcoma, 4 children aged 5 to 15 years (mean age 9 years) with Ewing sarcoma, 10 children aged 1.5 to 10 years (mean age 5.2 years) with central nervous system tumors, 4 children aged 4 years (2) and 8 years (2) with rhabdomyosarcoma and one child aged 6 years with the Wilms tumor.