New Technologies in Minimally Invasive Dentistry

Dear Colleagues,

In medicine and surgery, minimally invasive procedures are requested in order to reduce the post-surgery discomfort for the patients treated. In dentistry, progress is in the same direction in all fields. In diagnosis, CBCT reduced the invasiveness of examinations, enhancing the quantity and quality of the information. Digital scanners matched with the CBCT information and CAD/CAM technologies help to reduce the invasiveness of the surgical approach in implantology, and improve aesthetic treatments in orthodontics and in restorative dentistry. Lasers can provide minimally invasive treatments in periodontology and implantology, due to their decontaminating and photo-biomodulating effects. Tissue engineering can improve soft and hard tissue regeneration.

This Special Issue of Applied Sciences, "New Technologies in Minimally Invasive Dentistry", invites articles focused on research regarding the development of new technologies in dentistry. Experimental, theoretical, and computational studies in the field of dentistry are all encouraged.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Lasers in periodontology, peri-implantitis, orthodontics, and prosthodontics;
• Innovations in restorative dentistry, prosthodontics, orthodontics, and oral surgery;
• CAD/CAM in prosthodontics, implant surgery and orthodontics;
• Innovations in digital dentistry

Dr. Gianluigi Caccianiga
Dr. Dorina Lauritano
Guest Editors

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