Soft Tissue Laser Surgery is different from Hard Tissue Laser Surgery (bones and teeth in dentistry) and Laser Eye Surgery (eye sight corrective surgeries) by particular types of lasers. Lasers differ from each other by the wavelength of light they produce. The most commonly used surgical laser in soft tissue surgery is the CO2 laser. The CO2 laser wavelength (10.6 micrometers) is highly absorb...

background: the aim of this study was to compare the effects of diode laser irradiation on wound healing in oral rat mucosa and also to measure the amount of inducible nitric oxide synthase (inos) and endothelial nos (enos) on oral wound healing. healing was assessed by histology and the amounts of enos and inos were measured by real‑time polymerase chain reaction (pcr). materials and methods: ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate in vitro and in vivo effects of Moses technology in Holmium laser and to compare it with the Regular mode in terms of lithotripsy efficiency and laser-tissue interactions. METHODS The Lumenis® Pulse™ P120H holmium laser system together with Moses D/F/L fibers were used to compare the Regular mode with the Moses modes in stone retropulsion by using a high-speed camera, an...

This digest gives areas of progress made in clinical and laboratory work relating to surgical disease. The digest is broken down into specialty areas so that you may wish to select only those of interest to your own practice. the first day a Symposium was held entitled "Shedding Light on Lasers". A review of this subject was published by Murray et al.1 Different types of laser are described and...

introduction: definitive treatment of oral leukoplakia is very important because of its recurrences and malignant transformation depending on the location, clinical feature,degree of dysplasia and etiological factors. there are different kinds of treatment for this lesion, but using high power laser has some advantages like less pain, swelling, prevention of metastasis, edema, less bleeding (dr...

Introduction: Skin cancer has been increased day by day, but it can be cured if it diagnosed early. After reviewing the scientific literature about 980 nm diode laser, and its multiple advantages on skin diseases. We studied in this paper the effectiveness of this type of laser on the progression of skin cancer among hamsters which were exposed to carcinogen on the bac...

Laser irradiation on hard tissue has produced a resistant surface that is likely to prevent caries. In this study, human enamel and dentine were exposed to nanosecond pulsed Nd:YAG laser with energy densities of 20-40 J/cm(2) and pulse width of 6 ns inducing chemical changes in these tissues. Infrared analysis of human dental enamel and dentine was performed using the KBr method (2mg sample/300...