METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR CONTOURING TISSUE BY SELECTIVE APPLICATION OF ENERGY

摘要

Methods and apparatuses for contouring, shaping and/or directionally shrinking tissue by selective application of energy are disclosed herein. One embodiment of a method of contouring tissue includes determining a contraction direction along which the tissue is to be preferentially contracted and applying energy to a plurality of discrete elongated exposed regions of tissue spaced apart from each other among non-exposed regions of tissue. At least one of the exposed regions can be oriented such that a longitudinal dimension of the exposed regions is generally transverse to the contraction direction.