OBJECTIVE Our research aimed to detect the efficacy of non-surgical periodontal treatment with Nd: YAG laser and scaling and root planning (SRP) for chronic periodontitis. METHODS We recruited chronic periodontitis patients who have more than four teeth with clinical pocket depth of 4-8 mm. These teeth were distributed in four different zones within the oral cavity. Moreover, the teeth were s...

We present two patients with benign endobronchial tumours: polypi and a chondroma. Both were treated by Neodymium-YAG laser photoresection. There have been no signs of recurrence in the four years since treatment. Endobronchial resection by Neodymium-YAG laser is an effective treatment for benign endobronchial tumours.

Abstract: In this paper, a chatter free sliding mode control(SMC) strategy for chaos synchronization is proposed to the nonlinear uncertain chaotic systems in the presence of unknown bounded uncertainties and external disturbances. The sliding mode surface with differential operators is introduced to divert the discontinuous function swith term into the first derivative of the control input, an...

We seek critical points of the functional E(u) = j |Vw|, where Ω is Ω the unit disk in (R and u: Ω -+ S satisfies the boundary condition u = y on dΩ. We prove that if y is not a constant, then E has a local minimum which is different from the absolute minimum. We discuss in more details the case where y(x, y) = (Rx, Ry, ̂ Γ^R) and R <

Background: The aims of the present study were: [1] to evaluate whether Erbium-Doped: Yttrium, Aluminum and Garnet (Er: YAG) laser could be a prophylactic methods against transient bacteremia during scaling and root planing (SRP) [2] to confirm the efficacies of SRP with Er: YAG laser by clinical and microbiologic evaluations. Methods: Twenty chronic periodontitis subjects were randomly treated...

abstract today, the laser is used in a wide range of dental procedures. some of the advantages of some lasers in treatment of oral soft tissue lesions are: elimination of need for local anesthesia, minimal bleeding, fast healing, absence of postoperative complications and reduction of recurrence rate. for these reasons is was used for treatment of oral fibroma. to our knowledge this is the firs...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of raised intraocular pressure (IOP) after Nd: YAG laser posterior capsulotomy and its association with the energy used with raised versus normal intraocular pressure in pseudophakes. STUDY DESIGN Comparative, cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Ophthalmology Department, PNS Shifa Hospital, Karachi, from August 2008 to February 2009. MET...

Abstract Textured hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) matrix composite ceramics were prepared by hot-pressing using different contents of 3Y 2 O 3 −5Al (molar ratio 3:5) as the sintering additive. During hot-pressing, liquid Y Al 5 12 (YAG) phase showing good wettability to h-BN grains was in situ formed through reaction between and , a coherent relationship YAG observed with $${\left[ {010} \right]...

To date nearly all LII is carried out using Q-switched, flashlamp pumped Nd/YAG lasers with pulse lengths ~10 ns. Although these lasers are well developed and readily available for use in the laboratory and in commercial instruments, they are bulky, inefficient and often the most costly part of an LII system. Cheaper, more compact lasers are becoming available, but very few are able to match th...