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• Laser resurfacing: A method to change to the surface of the skin that allows new, healthy skin to form at the scar site.
• Laser therapy: An intense beam of light passed over the leg to eliminate spider veins.
• Laser treatment: An intense beam of light directed at the spider vein, which obliterates it through the skin.
• Latissimus dorsi flap technique: A surgical technique that uses muscle, fat and skin tunneled under the skin and tissue of a woman's back to the reconstructed breast and remains attached to its donor site, leaving blood supply intact.
• Light therapy: (Intense Pulsed Light) Pulses of light that can be used to treat discoloration and texture changes of the skin.
• Lipoplasty: Another term for liposuction.
• Liposuction: Also called lipoplasty or suction lipectomy, this procedure vacuums out fat from beneath the skin’s surface to reduce fullness.
• Local anesthesia: A drug is injected directly to the site of an incision during an operation to relieve pain.
• Local flap: A surgical procedure used for skin cancer in which healthy, adjacent tissue is repositioned over the wound.
• Lower body lift: Surgical procedure to correct sagging of the abdomen, buttocks, groin, and outer thighs.