Dental Lasers

Lasers are common in many areas of medicine today. They are widely used in surgery where they are used to reshape, remove, cut or repair diseased areas of the body. The laser is a high intensity focus beam of light, which causes a reaction in the cells of the body that allows in many cases a bloodless incision. In dentistry there are two types of lasers: hard tissue lasers and soft tissue lasers. Hard tissue lasers can actually remove tooth structure. This has a nice advantage in that there is no real “drilling” and thus can often be done without…