Treatment of dental decay by CO2 laser beam: Preliminary results
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Lasers in Surgery and Medicine
- Vol. 4 (4) , 311-321
- https://doi.org/10.1002/lsm.1900040403
Abstract
Results obtained from two clinical cases, representative of 1,140 human teeth treated by CO2 laser beam during 3 years, announce a new conception of treatment of dental caries. The beam (P = 4 – 5 W, energy density of 9 to 25 kw/cm2) causes a dentin healing which becomes sterile, chemically and physically more resistant than pathological dentin. In addition, this exposure leads to an activation of the dentinogenesis supported by X-ray, confirming histo-pathological results obtained from experiments performed on animals.Keywords
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