Laser Dentistry Overview

Laser dentistry can be a precise and effective way to perform many dental procedures. The outcome rests in the dentist's ability to control power output and the duration of exposure on the tissue, allowing for treatment of a highly specific area of focus without damaging surrounding tissues.

If you consider yourself somewhat of an anxious dental patient and are seeking extreme safety and comfort, you might consider laser treatment.

Benefits of Laser Dentistry

Here are some of the major benefits associated with laser dentistry:

• Procedures performed using soft tissue dental lasers may not require sutures (stitches)
• Certain laser dentistry procedures do not require anesthesia
• Laser dentistry minimizes bleeding because the high-energy light beam aids in the clotting (coagulation) of exposed blood vessels, thus inhibiting blood loss
• Bacterial infections are minimized because the high-energy beam sterilizes the area being worked on
• Damage to surrounding tissue is minimized
• Wounds heal faster and tissue can be regenerated

Application of Laser Dentistry

The application of lasers in dentistry opens the door for dentists to perform a wide variety of dental procedures they otherwise may not be capable of performing. Dentists using lasers in dentistry have become adept at incorporating the state-of-the-art precision technology into a number of common and not-so-common procedures.

Soft Tissue (Gum) Laser Dentistry Procedures

Other Laser Dentistry Applications