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. Is this normal? I turned the setting all the way up, tissue was nice and healthy, but I just kept pecking at the tissue trying to go through it. It would cut just a bit, then I would clean it off, then activate it again with articulating paper. I broke the tip twice pressing forward to make the darn thing
November 14, 2024
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Pt was a hyper-gagger. Good times. Note that even on multiple attempts the mesial (bottom) marge is consistently clear. That's the biggest advantage of gingival troughing--when done correctly. Too little and you can't see the margin, too much and you tramuatize the tissues and the patient. ...
October 30, 2014
Laser Dentistry
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Hello everyone, we are used to bleaching of gum pigmentation, but has anyone performed bleaching of lips ? Being in Middle East lots of ladies are complaining of dark lips and darkening with age , any tips please ? Also I have Biolase epic 10 , thanks a lot Nothing ? No clue?I got nothing but would
December 18, 2016
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the patient. I have a diode laser that I use daily for soft tissue things and I would not want to practice with it...but I can live without the hard tissue laser...The Er is great with thick gingiva though and its faster than the diode for removing bulky gums post ortho, etc.
February 18, 2025
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Crown #15 had an gumline level margin. Decay was at least 3mm below the margin and the gums. The main problem was going to be access. Since I felt decay going up into the crown, I cut out the bottom 2mm of the metal crown margin. I created the lower part by trimming away enough gum tissue so I
November 05, 2014
Laser Dentistry
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Hi there: this female patient of mine who is new to the practice has been mentioning to other dentists about a hard piece sticking out of her gum on the upper right hand premolar region in the attached tissue. I thought that this was a minimally invasive method to remove the root. Patient healed
July 20, 2014
Laser Dentistry
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do you use this laser for? Just about anything you'd use a 558 bur for ;) Endo - PIPS - search DT, lots more on that. Restorative - composite preps, gum troughing Surgery - extractions, crown lengthening, frenies Snoring tx Wrinkle tx Sorry for the short list--long day.
October 29, 2014
Laser Dentistry
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hi there laser dt i am considering buying an AMD laser soon. in my part of the world (the middle east) dark gums are quite the cosmetic issue, and i want to make sure that the diode laser i'm about to purchase can perform this task sufficiently. if anyone can direct me to any resources online
July 31, 2016
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affordable. Laser-assisted gum treatment will give you back a healthy mouth that supports our teeth for the quality of life for many years to come. Ed, I copied this from your website. Can you tell me what codes you use for these perio procedures and what plans u have seen reimbursement from.? Thanks
June 13, 2014
Laser Dentistry
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Ive recently started researching the purchase of the periolase for gum therapy. This is an expensive piece of equipment. Specially here in Australia. My question is in regards to the ROI I have a partnered (2 dentist / 1 hygienist) clinic. We are considering the LANAP. We already own
December 08, 2014
Laser Dentistry
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resources available? Thank you It's a rare case that you can just trim the gums with a laser for crown lengthening. Mine sits on a shelf collecting dust Last guy I worked for use to use a laser for crown lengthening. Ive never heard of this before... You can diode and an end cutting bur.Or an all
August 13, 2020
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a cord today. Laser is definitely more satisfying... more fun. Works great, not necessary. Have some extra $? Do it!With or without cord, 3Ms retraction paste is great stuff. If the bleeding and gums are only a problem interproximally, try placing a sectional wedge under
March 01, 2018
Laser Dentistry
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like the puffy gums interproximally and told the patient that I would be more than happy to remove the excess tissue since I did the frenectomy? Whatever, I touched up the frenum again since he was numb, and don't really know what the ortho wanted as the referral from 1 week ago said the frenum
June 17, 2019
Laser Dentistry
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fold BEFORE you attempt to perform this procedure....otherwise your malpractice carrier might be calling me to bail you out of causing a perfectly healthy but slightly hypersensitive tooth to become non-vital/necrotic.....and of course you can document that you have been personally trained by someone
September 12, 2022
Laser Dentistry
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and systemic issues? Could it be toxins from the bacteria? Bacterial toxins cause the body's responses to fight infection which breaks down the bone and tissue that support teeth. If not treated, the bones, gums, and tissue that support the teeth are destroyed...killing bacteria is the main point
October 07, 2015
Laser Dentistry
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love feedback. What are your after care instructions? I was happy with the results.... Patient was stoked! I'll post post-op in a few weeks.I'm sure pt was ecstatic. What kind of anesthesia are you using here?What reasons are there that you wouldn't do a lingual frenectomy on a healthy patient
July 18, 2014
Laser Dentistry
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plaque, pigmented material, and caries without ANY effect on the enamel that hard tissue laser would have. This conserves the maximum amount of healthy enamel, and provide for the much appreciated undercuts. Autolase cure Composite resin complete. Cool. But why did you fill that tooth
February 18, 2018
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, recurrent decay removed, and prep finished with laser. I had to use a slow speed round bur to finish the mesial excavation because i simply couldn't see it well. I know it would have been much easier to drop a mesial box, but that would have meant removing about 6mm of healthy tooth structure just
June 05, 2014
Laser Dentistry
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suppuration on photo. 6 weeks post-op: It's still to early to re-probe this case, but note the healthy color of the tissue. Also, mobility decreased to + without splinting. I did not charge much at all for this case since I honestly thought I would be extracting this tooth soon after treatment
January 10, 2007
Laser Dentistry
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but relatively healthy crest levels? Perio charting, discussion with the patient about persistent pocketing, finish the prophy, then laser application to the 5mm pockets for example? I have been employing diodes in hygiene for years. Their main use by the hygienists is to biostimulate healing of ulcers
January 06, 2023
Laser Dentistry
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-session regimen of therapy to treat the same teeth is professional lunacy. Compliance will be through the floor. Conventional pocket reduction surgery or LANAP, is, barring later disease recurrence, a once and done therapy. 980 Diode Clinician: Mrs. Jones, I can treat your gum disease with an annoying
April 24, 2020
Laser Dentistry
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in the osteotomy. The Periolase Hygiene Blast Protocol maintains implants in a healthy state. The SOLEA cannot be used in implant dentistry except to lay a flap. If you use in in the osteotomy it will cut and damage the bone. If you use it on the implant it will pit the implant.
December 29, 2022
Laser Dentistry
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allowed me to have a nice niche and allow me to have the patient flow to do the type of dentistry I like doing. I dont see this changing once we are up and running again. Stay safe , positive and healthy. Just had my MD waterlase serviced for $1500. Had to prepay to get on site service. Told to get
October 17, 2020
Laser Dentistry
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cauterizer. Only it gets gummed up with tissue debris in like 2 seconds and then it is doing very little. Punchline: if you want a laser that functions the way you fantasize that a laser functions, you need a CO2 laser, and new you are looking at 40k+. Bob is an authority, maybe THE authority, so
October 04, 2024
Laser Dentistry
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on a simple, two-step procedure: Irrigate:The specially formulated Periowave photosensitizing solution is topically applied to the gums at the treatment site. It then preferentially attaches to the harmful bacteria and toxins associated with periodontal disease. Illuminate:A thin, plastic light
September 24, 2017
Laser Dentistry
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every once and a while...that'll pay for a weeks worth!...that's a joke by the way, just so you know.Jimthanks guys, will...Try and sterilize the tips.....they will melt the plastic.GlennEDIT I think of laser tips and fibers in the same light as needles. One doesn't stick a needle into gum tissue
August 20, 2014
Laser Dentistry
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on pocket depths from the top down and not bottom of the pocket upThea if pockets shrink its a weakAttachment prone to unzipDiodes can make the tissue healthier in appearance ie stippling through their LLLT effect also known as PBMDiodes as Bob says have limited improvement in CAL unless its a pseudo
April 25, 2024
Laser Dentistry
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the patient pay extra so the dentist can have 4 day weekends and a mild schedule. Their patients are happy to pay. I would vote no. Retraction is part of the procedure.Sounds like a medical procedure bill when using a laser for retraction does the gum recede after awhile due to the use of the laser
October 12, 2019
Laser Dentistry
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. I use the x-ray as an aide and it helps them understand that the margin is def sub g and will make the case more difficult. This also aides in post op care seeing as they now understand it is not a typical crown prep so they may be a bit more sore as a result on the gum tissue. Pt will also know
May 13, 2017
Laser Dentistry
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diode for a couple of years. Great on healthy tissue. Not so much for inflammation.Well, everyone's experience is different of course. I packed cord for 20 years and I was also pretty good at it (less so now as I don't do it very often!). I almost always touch up the margin after the first pass
June 24, 2016
Laser Dentistry
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the top down. Patients notice less bleeding on probing, healthier tissue in appearance ( stippled) but recession is the likely cause for pocket reduction ( not always but likely). Remember when there is a disinfected laser pocket, the epithelium moves far faster than bone to fill up that space. Full
February 06, 2016
Laser Dentistry
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be known that matter a lot. For ex, we had no idea that LANAP will work better if the gums are inflamed on the day of the treatment. This has a huge impact on our decisions to refer a case early on or not. And I wonder about how much more there is to know, if a GP is working with a LANAP providing
March 08, 2018
Laser Dentistry
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their gums with a 15 blade. Parents love the idea their kids aren't walking out all packed in bloody gauze after they spent thousands on ortho. It can remove all porcelain restorations without the need to section and pry them off. It allows me to do gingivectomies and class V resins to the base
April 15, 2022
Laser Dentistry
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opinion is to not charge for it, but here's some food for thought: If a patient presents with a condition, such as very subgingival decay or inflamed gums that bleed profusely, which makes a procedure much more difficult to successfully accomplish, should we charge more for it? Here are two
October 17, 2019
Laser Dentistry
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, as I bought mine in 2009), but there is no comparison and in my opinion it is worth twice the price of any Erbium out there. Regards, Josh WeintraubI had the Solea laser for aproximately 3 months and had to make a difficult choice whether to keep it. On the positive side it ablated gum tissue
July 30, 2015
Laser Dentistry
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that I finally stopped his gums from bleeding for the first time in 10 years after doing LANAP: I've already explained that over and over, i don't want to repeat myself. Hope to see at least one of YOUR clinical cases so we can discuss about genuine deeds, not just words... Take care YOu always
April 27, 2024
Laser Dentistry
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than some thing they had to use a grounding plate for to burn some gum tissue away. You can find good used or refurbished diode lasers for $1500-2500 with...Really? I never had anyone complement me about the laser or make an issue about a grounding plate. And that's perfectly fine. For myself, I
July 30, 2018
Laser Dentistry
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for the advice!Sweet! Did you wear your eye protection this time???? Just kidding, just kidding, Why sooooooo Seriouuuuuuuusssss?????Here is one from yesterday where without my iLase, I would not have been able to see anything at all. The dark gums are not charred. I used some vicostat to stop
May 31, 2016
Laser Dentistry
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and she had several significant problems related to breastfeeding. The day after doing the procedure, she reported a 70% improvement in nursing. When I saw them again 1 month later her son had gained a much healthier amount of weight since his previous visit. Seeing results like that and helping
April 02, 2014
Laser Dentistry
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of simply removing the old restoration with Solea I have to make a trough around the whole filling so therefore I remove healthy tooth structure to remove a filling. Or I can preserve tooth structure using a handpiece. Handpiece wins every time. I figured I would chime in here as I have been a Solea user
April 02, 2023
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selling dental laser systems. The Waterlase system uses a patented combination of water and laser to precisely cut hard tissue, such as bone and teeth, and soft tissue, such as gums, with minimal or no damage to surrounding tissue. The Company also offers the LaserSmile(TM) system, which uses a laser
July 14, 2006
Laser Dentistry
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by Biolase for LBR. A uninitiated tip is used by the hygienist to kill bacteria in the sulcus. It is used for all periodontal patients and those patients who present with bleeding gums. We charge $30 for the entire month. It takes the hygienist about 5 minutes to treat the entire mouth. All
September 13, 2020
Laser Dentistry
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procedures 7W is enormous overkill. Cutting tissue at this power can cause thermal damage to adjacent healthy tissue or cut deeper than is necessary. CAO Group's lasers are mostly 810, because it covers the range of common and everyday soft tissue procedures. There are a lot of good lasers out
November 17, 2017
Laser Dentistry
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nonsense came from. Solea penetrates enamel 2 microns, healthy dentine maybe a little more. In my experience, there is significantly less post op sensitivity when the laser is the last thing to touch the tooth. Way fewer tooth aches after restorative appointments. Way less post op endo needed. As someone
November 08, 2020
Laser Dentistry
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have to touch the screen to change the power output In addition to being great on teeth, SOLEA removes gums and bone very cleanly. With the waterlase, I always felt like I needed more power. With SOLEA, I actually have to back off the foot pedal. That was the moment I realized that SOLEA
January 27, 2017
Laser Dentistry
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with little or no effect on healthy epithelium. Lasers can be used to treat, ulcers, lesions, desensitizing at the CEJ, they can treat venous lake / Hemangiomas, without scarring. The assumption of lasers only being used once or twice a year is a shame. With the right laser and the right training lasers
July 18, 2018
Laser Dentistry
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of disease. We do not perform LANAP (due to research as I have discussed on several other threads) but FWIW I think the beneficial results of LANAP are due to its rigorous approach and application. Just buying a laser and sticking it under the gums for a ride will inevitably lead to disappointing
October 13, 2017
Laser Dentistry
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treatment modality can effectively adress the genetic factors though. Not yet anyway. The way I see it is that as long as you got teeth with gums around them and a living pt, you got a susceptible host. Of coarse there are varying degrees of susceptibility depending on genetics and systemic factors
January 21, 2014
Laser Dentistry
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the upgrade we have 1 DT and 1 ATS model. Sincerely, Dr. Bethany Jensen I have been using hard and soft tissue lasers for 13 years. I have had Fotona lasers , most recently the Lightwalker. Fotona is a great company with a long healthy track record. I have tried all the others, make sure whatever you buy
October 22, 2021
Laser Dentistry
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dental hygienists on Friday last week in Calgary and a fair amount of my discussion was about the Periolase and what it does, other lasers mentioned in the discussion included Erbium, Er,Cr:YSGG, diodes, even Photodynamic therapy......they all have roles in helping our patients achieve healthier
November 09, 2017
Laser Dentistry
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