Surgical and Non-surgical Laser Applications in Dentistry: An Update
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2022) | Viewed by 8750
Special Issue Editors
Interests: oral medicine; oral surgical pathology; laser application in oral surgical pathology; implant rehabilitation of oncologic patients or affected by oral mucosa/jaw diseases
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Interests: laser dentistry; oral medicine; oral laser surgery; laser-tissue interaction; mini-invasiveness
2. CAD/CAM Center of Dental Medicine, Research Institute, Medical University—Plovdiv, 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Interests: laser dentistry; laser teeth whitening; prosthetic dentistry; esthetic dentistry; CAD/CAM; 3D printing
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Dear Colleagues,
Laser use in dentistry and oral surgery is nowadays a well-recognized and constantly improving alternative to conventional techniques. Laser use has entered all areas of contemporary dentistry and can be applied with great success for numerous surgical and non-surgical procedures. The main advantages of lasers (diode, KTP, Neodimio:YAG) are: excellent hemostasis during cuts, bactericidal effects, biostimulation, transmucosal coagulations of vascular lesions. Surgical lasers change tissues now only by means of ablation, coagulation, and evaporation, but also by stimulating the natural healing processes in cells. Other lasers and laser-emitting diodes (LED), applied with lower power than surgical ones, also play the role of ‘biostimulators’, while Erbium:YAG and Erbium:YSGG provide atraumatic bone resection. Additionally, there is an increasing interest in combining different dyes with therapeutic lasers.
This Special Issue proposes to provide a meeting point between the various methods and types of lasers in dentistry and oral surgery and thus evaluate the current state of the art and provide information as standardized as possible on which laser is most suitable for a specific dental/oral mucosa therapy/treatment. Reviews of the literature are welcome, as well as case reports or case series on specific topics. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: standardized laser technique and parameters for oral mucosa disease treatments, standardized laser technique and parameters for tongue and labial frenectomy, laser use in the surgical management of potentially malignant and malignant lesions of the oral mucosa, the state of the art in laser application in periodontology, laser-assisted smile design, soft- and hard-tissue laser crown lengthening and fcrown lengthening, laser treatment of periimplantitis, histological assessment of oral tissue–laser interaction, laser teeth whitening, laser applications in endodontics, laser photobiomodulation (LLLT), and photodynamic laser therapy.
Dr. Saverio Capodiferro
Dr. Georgi Tomov
Dr. Rada Kazakova
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- laser
- laser oral mucosa diseases treatments
- surgical lasers
- oral laser surgical pathology
- laser-assisted crown lengthening
- low-level laser therapy
- photodynamic therapy
- laser teeth whitening
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