Lasers were introduced into the field of clinical dentistry with the hope of overcoming some of the drawbacks posed by the conventional methods of dental procedures. Since its first experiment for dental application in the 1960s, the use of laser has increased rapidly in the last couple of decades. At present, wide varieties of procedures are carried out using lasers. The aim of this review is ...

The aim of this study was to determine the cutting ability of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) diamond burs coupled to an ultrasonic dental unit handpiece for minimally invasive cavity preparation. One standard cavity was prepared on the mesial and distal surfaces of 40 extracted human third molars either with cylindrical or with spherical CVD burs. The cutting ability was compared regarding typ...

The death regulation of damaged pulp cells after cavity preparation is not well-known. In this study, we examined whether apoptosis is associated with the death regulation of damaged pulp cells. In normal rat molars, terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated labeling (TUNEL)-positive cells were not observed. Just after surgery, odontoblasts under cavities were TUNEL-positive, and these sig...

This two-part study consisted of: (1) a survey to assess current practice patterns, and (2) an experiment designed to assess the results of varying intraoral preparations. A 48 percent response rate was obtained from the survey of the 318 active members of the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons. This survey demonstrated that significant controversy continues regarding the efficacy of pr...

We report on the fast production and weakly destructive detection of a Fermi gas with tunable interactions in high finesse cavity. The cavity is used both far off-resonant light to create deep optical dipole trap, near-resonant reach strong light-matter coupling regime. cavity-based trap allows for an efficient capture laser-cooled atoms, use lattice-cancellation scheme makes it possible perfor...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine the temperature changes in the pulp chamber during cavity preparation with the Er:YAG laser (2940 nm) with a very short pulse (VSP). MATERIALS AND METHODS Nine groups of 10 intact molars each were used. One root of each sample was amputated and a thermocouple was inserted into the chamber. Class V cavity preparation in enamel was performed, and t...