Laser dentistry

Laser dentistry can be a specific and efficient way to offer various dental methods. The potential of laser dentistry to improve dental procedures is based on the dentist’s ability to control output power and duration of tissue exposure (if gum or tooth structure), allowing treatment of an area Very specific focusing without damaging the surrounding tissue.

If you consider yourself a bit of an anxious dental patient and are looking for extreme safety and comfort, you might consider looking for dentists who have incorporated laser dentistry techniques into their practices and treatments. It is estimated that 6 percent of general dentists have a laser for soft tissue applications, with this number expected to increase over time.

As applications for dental lasers grow, more dentists will use the technology to provide patients with precision treatment that can minimize pain and recovery time.

Benefits of Laser Dentistry?

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

Procedures with soft tissue dental lasers do not require sutures.
Some laser dentistry procedures do not require anesthesia.
Laser dentistry minimizes bleeding because of the high-energy light beam that helps in the coagulation of exposed blood vessels, thereby inhibiting blood loss.
Bacterial infections are minimized because the high-energy beam sterilizes the area on which we are working.
Damage to surrounding tissue is minimized.
Wounds heal faster and tissues can be regenerated.

Laser dentistryApplication of laser dentistry

The application of lasers in dentistry opens the door to dentists to perform a wide variety of dental procedures that they might otherwise not be able to perform. Dentists using lasers in dentistry have become skilled at incorporating advanced precision technology into a number of common and not-so-common procedures.