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Indian Journal of Dental Education

Volume  16, Issue 2, April – June 2023, Pages 87-89
 

Review Article

Lasers in Clinical Dentistry: An Overview

Shivani Bhadule, Ritesh Kalaskar

Postgraduate Student, Professor & HOD, Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Government Dental College & Hospital, Nagpur 440003 Maharashtra , India.

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DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ijde.0974.6099.16223.5

Abstract

LASERS have become an integral part of dentistry. LASER is an acronym for ‘Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation’. Invention of LASER dates back to as early as 1917, when Albert Einstein put forward the theory of photoelectric amplification could emit a single frequency. The primary action of lasers on dental tissue is dependent on how well the chromophore (water, apatite minerals, pigmented substances, etc.) is absorbed by the laser tissue. Laser has various applications in endodontics, operative dentistry, periodontics, orthodontics, etc.


Keywords : Dentistry; Mechanism; Endodontics; Prosthodontics; Orthodontics; Cosmetic Dentistry
Corresponding Author : Shivani Nagnath Bhadule