Introduction

This issue of Seminars in Orthodontics is dedicated to devices that very few orthodontists are familiar with – but most orthodontists should become acquainted with. Since the introduction of the American Dental Laser DLase300 to general dentistry more than 30 years go, lasers have slowly but surely become the go-to tool for painless, bloodless surgical procedures in every area of dentistry – from perio dontal and oral surgical procedures to fixed prosthetics (troughing, ovate pontic site formation) to removable prosthetics (tuberosity and torus reduction, vestibuloplasty) to endodontics (canal preparation and sterilization) to operative dentistry (composite restorations) to cosmetic dentistry (zen ith adjustment, emergence profile adjustment) to pediatric and neonatal dentistry (tongue tie releases on 3 day old babies), and on and on and on.
Source: Seminars in Orthodontics - Category: Dentistry Authors: Source Type: research