Laser Dentistry: Enhancing Dental Treatment with Lasers

Laser Dentistry: Enhancing Dental Treatment with Lasers
Consumer Guide to DENTISTRY

Laser dentistry can be a precise and effective way to perform many dental procedures. The potential for laser dentistry to improve dental procedures rests in the dentist’s ability to control power output and the duration of exposure on the tissue (whether gum or tooth structure), 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 looking for dentists who have incorporated laser dentistry techniques into their practices and treatments. It is estimated that 6 percent of general dentists own a laser for soft-tissue applications, with that number expected to increase over time.

As the applications for dental lasers expand, greater numbers of dentists will use the technology to provide patients with precision treatment that may minimize pain and recovery time.

Laser dentistry is a new technique that can improve the precision of your treatment while minimizing pain and recovery time.
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 tissues can be regenerated.

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