Laser Dentistry

The advantages of laser dentistry to both the patient and the practitioner are simply astounding. For patients, laser dentistry means less pain and anesthesia, less bleeding, easier healing, and a host of other benefits. For general, family, and cosmetic dentists, laser dentistry provides the opportunity to take dental practices to a whole new level. Dental lasers allow dental professionals to increase their competitiveness in the marketplace by expanding the range of services they are able to provide and making treatment more comfortable for their patients.

Dental lasers clinical uses:

• Excisional and incisional biopsies
• Exposure of unerupted teeth
• Fibroma removal
• Frenectomy and frenotomy
• Gingival troughing for crown impressions
• Gingivectomy
• Gingivoplasty
• Gingival incision and excision
• Implant Recovery
• Incision and drainage of abscess
• Oral papillectomies
• Reduction of gingival hypertrophy
• Soft tissue crown lengthening
• Sulcular debridement (removal of diseased or inflamed soft tissue in the periodontal pocket to improve clinical indices including gingival index, gingival bleeding index, probe depth, attachment loss and tooth mobility)
• Treatment of aphthous ulcers
• Hemostasis
• Lesion (tumor) removal