Fotona leads the way in non-invasive feminine health treatments, combining cutting-edge laser and muscle stimulation technologies to enhance intimate wellness and confidence. These clinically proven solutions effectively address a wide range of gynaecological and pelvic health concerns with minimal discomfort and downtime.
Gynaecology
For Incontinence, Atrophy, Vaginal Laxity and Prolapse
Advanced Feminine Health Solutions with Fotona
TimeWalker® IntimaLaser
Precision Laser Therapy for Feminine Health
The TimeWalker® IntimaLaser uses Er:YAG and Nd:YAG laser technology to deliver gentle, non-surgical treatments for:
- Vaginal laxity
- Stress urinary incontinence
- Post-menopausal atrophy
Its patented SMOOTH® mode stimulates deep collagen remodelling and tissue regeneration, offering a pain-free, non-invasive alternative to surgery. This FDA-approved and clinically backed solution has been widely recognised for improving vaginal tone, elasticity, and overall intimate health.
StarFormer® IntimaWave
Electromagnetic Muscle Stimulation for Pelvic Strength
The StarFormer® IntimaWave is a high-intensity electromagnetic stimulation (HIFEM) system designed to strengthen pelvic floor muscles and enhance bladder control.
- Induces thousands of supramaximal contractions in a single session
- Restores core strength and prevents incontinence
- Completely non-invasive, with no downtime or recovery needed
This treatment is ideal for women looking to regain control, enhance pelvic function, and improve intimate wellness without surgery.
Which Solution is Right for You?
Both systems provide state-of-the-art, non-surgical treatment options for feminine health.
- Looking for a laser-based collagen-stimulating therapy? → TimeWalker® IntimaLaser
- Need a muscle-strengthening solution for pelvic floor health? → StarFormer® IntimaWave
Our team can help you choose the best option for your clinic and patients.
Get in touch today to learn how Fotona’s advanced technologies can transform intimate health treatments in your practice.
Laser & HITS Systems
For Gynaecology
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Key Facts SMOOTH®
- Minimal to no pain – No anaesthesia required
Gentle heating – Stimulates collagen remodelling and increases blood flow - Base wavelength: 2940 nm (Er:YAG SMOOTH®) – Non-ablative vaginal treatment
- Minimally invasive with no downtime
- Indications: Incontinence, vaginal laxity, atrophy, prolapse
The SMOOTH® mode: safe and non-ablative
Fotona’s unique patented SMOOTH® mode enables non-ablative treatment. In contrast to the other systems on the market, which promote collagen remodelling by causing tissue damage and subsequent fibrosis and repair, the Er:YAG SMOOTH® works subablatively and is, therefore, injury- and risk-free.
Because the energy is delivered using long heat pulses, a gentle, controlled temperature build up in the tissue is possible without causing tissue injury or bleeding. Using thermal diffusion, controlled heat acts in deep layers of the mucous membrane without causing superficial damage to the tissue, but with a significant remodelling (shrinkage and new collagen deposition) on the collagen fibres in the epithelium of the vaginal wall.
The minimally invasive SMOOTH® mode is a unique feature of FOTONA technology that does not injure the tissue; which is not possible with conventional Er:YAG lasers (insufficient penetration depth) or CO2 lasers (risk of necrosis). Delivering the optimal temperature at a sufficient tissue depth triggers neocollagenesis in the vaginal epithelium and thus the regeneration of the connective tissue quality of the vaginal wall.
There are currently 60 studies and publications – published in the most renowned international journals. Fotona has compiled the most important of them into a brand new current study compendium.
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ComfortLase™
Characteristics of Piano Level Laser Therapy (PLLT™) Using Novel 1064 nm Laser Handpiece Technology – Read Full text
1064 nm Nd:YAG laser light affects transmembrane mitochondria respiratory chain complexes – Read Full text
Case Studies on the Use of a New Flat-top Handpiece for Biomodulation in Dentistry and Medicine – Read Full text
STRESS URINARY INCONTINENCE – IncontiLase®
Efficacy and safety of intraurethral Erbium:YAG laser treatment in women with stress urinary incontinence following failed intravaginal laser therapy: a retrospective study – Read Full text
SUI in postmenopausal women: advantages of an intraurethral + intravaginal Er:YAG laser – Read Full text
Erbium:YAG laser treatment of female stress urinary incontinence: midterm data – Read Full text
Er:YAG laser in hysterectomized women with stress urinary incontinence: a VELA retrospective cohort, non-inferiority study – Read Full text
Comparison between erbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet laser therapy and sling procedures in the treatment of stress and mixed urinary incontinence – Read Full text
Non-ablative Er:YAG Laser Therapy Effect on Stress Urinary Incontinence Related to Quality of Life and Sexual Function: A Randomized Controlled Trial – Read Full text
Structural Reorganization of the Vaginal Mucosa in Stress Urinary Incontinence under Conditions of Er:YAG Laser Treatment – Read Full text
Non-Ablative Erbium YAG Laser for the Treatment of Type III Stress Urinary Incontinence (Intrinsic Sphincter Deficiency) – Read Full text
VAGINAL LAXITY – IntimaLase®
Treating Vaginal Relaxation Syndrome Using Erbium: Yttrium Aluminum Garnet Fractional Laser: A Retrospective Study – Read Full text
The efficacy of erbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Er:YAG) laser in the treatment of decreased sexual sensation: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial – Read Full text
Up to 3-Year Follow-up of Patients with Vaginal Relaxation Syndrome Participating in Laser Vaginal Tightening – Read Full text
Laser Vaginal Tightening (LVT) – Evaluation of a Novel Noninvasive Laser Treatment for Vaginal Relaxation Syndrome – Read Full text
PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE – ProlapLase®
Vaginal erbium laser versus pelvic floor exercises for the treatment of pelvic organ prolapse: A randomised controlled trial – Read Full text
Non-ablative vaginal erbium laser treatment of patients with cystocele and stress urinary incontinence – a retrospective study
Laser Treatment of Higher Grade Cystocele – Read Full text
VULVOVAGINAL ATROPHY / GENITOURINARY SYNDROME OF MENOPAUSE – RenovaLase®
Hyaluronic acid and erbium laser for the treatment of genitourinary syndrome of menopause – Read Full text
Efficacy of Two Laser Treatment Strategies for Breast Cancer Survivors With Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause – Read Full text
A study of the objective benefits and safety of Er-YAG laser in the treatment of genitourinary syndrome of menopause. – Read Full text
Sexual function after vaginal erbium laser: the results of a large, multicentric, prospective study – Read Full text
Short-term effects of an erbium/neodymium laser combination in superficial dyspareunia: a pilot study – Read Full text
Histological findings after non-ablative Er:YAG laser therapy in women with severe vaginal atrophy – Read Full text
Effects of non-ablative Er:YAG laser on the skin and the vaginal wall: systematic review of the clinical and experimental literature – Read Full text
Long-term Effects of vaginal Erbium Laser in the Treatment of Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause – Read Full text
Vaginal erbium laser as second-generation thermotherapy for the genitourinary syndrome of menopause: a pilot study in breast cancer survivors – Read Full text
Efficacy of Erbium:YAG Laser Treatment Compared to Topical Estriol Treatment for Symptoms of Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause – Read Full text
GENITAL LESIONS
Effectiveness and safety of ablative Er:YAG laser treatment for external genital warts – Read Full text
Surgical Treatment of Vulvar HSIL: Adjuvant HPV Vaccine Reduces Recurrent Disease – Read Full text
Ablation of CIN I and VAIN II Lesions with Er:YAG Laser – Read Full text
Er:YAG Removal of Vulvar, Perineal, Anal and Intra-anal Condilomas – Read Full text
OTHER
Sutureless Laser Labiaplasty of Labia Minora – Read Full text
Characteristics of Non‐Ablative Resurfacing of Soft Tissues by Repetitive Er:YAG Laser Pulse Irradiation – Read Full text
Variable Heat Shock Response Model for Medical Laser Procedures – Read Full text
Additional Research
Mesh Extraction Surgery and Laser Treatment for Pain After Mid-Urethral Sling Surgery: A Case Series.
A novel objective evaluation method, shear wave elastography, in the treatment of atrophic vaginitis by nonablative intravaginal Er:YAG laser, a randomized-sham controlled pilot study – Read Full text
Evaluating Non-ablative Erbium Yttrium Aluminium Garnet (YAG) Laser Treatment for Polypropylene Mesh-Induced Vaginal Erosion: A Case Series
Pathological Insights on Polypropylene Mesh Complications From Laparoscopic Sacrocolpopexy: A Case Series
Number of vaginal lactobacilli in postmenopausal women with vaginal atrophy before and after treatment with erbium-YAG laser: a randomized sham-controlled trial – Read Full text
Analysis of Predictive Factors for Return to Sports in Female Athletes With Stress Urinary Incontinence – Read Full text
A randomized trial comparing vaginal laser therapy and pelvic floor physical therapy for treating women with stress urinary incontinence – Read Full text
Comparison of Er:YAG and CO(2) laser therapy for women with stress urinary incontinence. Lasers in surgery and medicine – Read Full text
Superficial dyspareunia treatment with hyperstacking of erbium:yttrium-aluminum-garnet SMOOTH laser: a short-term, pilot study in breast cancer survivors – Read Full text
Erbium Laser Thermo-Therapy for Female Stress Urinary Incontinence – 18 months Follow-up – Read Full text
Vaginal erbium laser for treatment of stress urinary incontinence: optimization of treatment regimen for a sustained long-term effect – Read Full text
The Er:YAG vaginal laser for management of women with genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM) – Read Full text
Effect of Er:YAG Laser for Women with Stress Urinary Incontinence – Read Full text
Preliminary outcome of non-ablative vaginal Erbium laser treatment for female stress and mixed urinary incontinence – Read Full text
Comparison of Erbium-YAG laser treatment with TVT and TOT in Asian women with SUI – Read Full text
Effect of laser on pelvic floor strength and sexual satisfaction in women complaining of vaginal looseness: A randomized controlled trial – Read Full text
Laser therapy for the restoration of vaginal function – Read Full text
Treatment of female stress urinary incontinence with Erbium-YAG laser in non-ablative mode – Read Full text
Laser thermotherapy in pelvic floor dysfunction, randomised placebo controled study – Read Full text
G-Runner Robotic Vaginal Probe for IncontiLase® and IntimaLase® Treatment – a Pilot Study – Read Full text
Comparison of urethral sling surgery and non-ablative vaginal Erbium:YAG laser treatment in 327 patients with stress urinary incontinence: a case-matching analysis – Read Full text
Treating Vaginal Laxity Using Nonablative Er:YAG Laser: A Retrospective Case Series of Patients From 2.5 Years of Clinical Practice – Read Full text
Er:YAG laser treatment of urinary incontinence after failed TOT/TVT procedures – Read Full text
Predictive factors for the efficacy of Er:YAG laser treatment of urinary incontinence – Read Full text
The short-term outcome of laser in the management of female pelvic floor disorders: Focus on stress urine incontinence and sexual dysfunction – Read Full text
Baseline ICIQ-UI score, body mass index, age, average birth weight, and perineometry duration as promising predictors of the short-term efficacy of Er:YAG laser treatment in stress urinary incontinent women: A prospective cohort study – Read Full text
Effect of non-ablative laser treatment on overactive bladder symptoms, urinary incontinence and sexual function in women with urodynamic stress incontinence – Read Full text
Intraurethral Erbium:YAG laser for the management of urinary symptoms of genitourinary syndrome of menopause: A pilot study – Read Full text
Vaginal Erbium Laser: The Second-generation Thermotherapy for the Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause – Read Full text
Study of Proliferative Activity of Vaginal Epithelium in Women with Stress Urinary Incontinence Treated by Er:YAG Laser – Read Full text
Effects of Laser Procedure for Female Urodynamic Stress Incontinence on Pad Weight, Urodynamics, and Sexual Function – Read Full text
Patient Satisfaction with Vaginal Erbium Laser Treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence, Vaginal Relaxation Syndrome and Genito-urinary Syndrome of Menopause – Read Full text
Laser Vaginal Tightening with Non-ablative Er:YAG for Vaginal Relaxation Syndrome. Evaluation of Patient Satisfaction – Read Full text
Erbium Laser in Gynecology – Read Full text
Minimal Invasive Laser Treatment for Female Stress Urinary Incontinence – Read Full text
Rationale and Design for the Vaginal Erbium Laser Academy Study (VELAS): An International Multicenter Observational Study on Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause and Stress Urinary Incontinence – Read Full text
Laser Treatment of Vaginal Atrophy in Post-menopause and Post-gynecological Cancer Patients – Read Full text
Novel Minimally Invasive VSP Er:YAG Laser Treatments in Gynecology – Read Full text
Minimally Invasive Laser Procedure for Early Stages of Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI) – Read Full text
Additional Resources: visit the Laser and Health Academy* website for additional information about medical laser treatments that can be performed with Fotona laser systems.
The FDA has issued a warning regarding tissue-destroying treatments. However, these are not minimally invasive laser applications such as those carried out in the Er:YAG SMOOTH® mode. Read a response from FOTONA here .
PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE STRENGTHENING
An ideal compliment therapy to the Fotona Smooth Mode gynaecological applications
StarFormer® is Fotona’s latest innovation for gynaecology: high intensity Tesla magnetic stimulation (HITS™), enabling fast and easy strengthening of the pelvic floor muscles without effort.
The StarFormer® IntimaWave® treatment uses non-invasive, HITS™ technology to selectively target muscle tissues and provide strengthening, toning and firming of the pelvic floor muscles to effectively treat urinary incontinence.
How it Works?
StarFormer® can be used to stimulate both the pelvic floor and back muscles to treat all types of male or female urinary and faecal incontinence. During treatment, the patient remains clothed and sits on a comfortable IntimaWave® chair with built-in applicators in the seat and back of the chair. The magnetic applicators in the chair stimulate muscle contraction in the entire pelvic floor area, leading to increased muscle strength. The result is effective relief of uncontrolled urine flow.
The IntimaWave® treatment is gentle and fast, and no patient preparation is needed. The generated magnetic pulses harmlessly pass through the patient’s clothing, skin and bone, reaching otherwise inaccessible tissue. The therapy is non-invasive, painless and with no known side effects.
StarFormer®
Indications:
- stress incontinence,
- urge incontinence,
- mixed urinary incontinence,
- fecal incontinence,
- postpartum rehabilitation,
- pelvic floor muscle rehabilitation after surgery,
- chronic prostatitis,
- erectile dysfunction,
- problems due to poor circulation.
Key Facts
- Safe, quick and easy muscle strengthening
- Non-invasive
- Walk-in/walk-out procedure
- High success rate and patient satisfaction
- No preparation needed
GYNAECOLOGICAL KEY TREATMENTS
INNOVATION
IncontiLase Intra – urethral treatment: a unique Innovation in Incontinence Treatment
The intraurethral handpiece – hope for urethral sphincter weakness and severe stress incontinence
Decreasing tissue quality in the urethra results in decreased tone of the sphincter muscle (ISD Intrinsic Sphincter Deficiency). Utilisation of a unique intraurethral laser probe to treat the connective tissue directly along the urethra results in a change in tissue tone, thus strengthening and improving the quality of the urethral wall resulting in improved sphincter function. The handpiece is currently being tested internationally.