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Laser has yielded very accomplished results in all branches of medicine in last 30 years. Laser technology continuing to develop for the aim of being used in more advanced and deeper treatment  techniques and new applications in medical department provide vast benefits and it gets finalization of treatment in a very short time and high treatment accomplishment.
Laser has been firstly started to be used in gum treatments in dentistry and has been used successfully in incidents of simple gum operations.
Nowadays, laser has been used in a very successful way on behalf of patient and dentist in very vast area of Dentistry.
The most frequently used procedures are as follows:
All gum diseases and operations
Entire filling root canal therapies of tooth decays
Very successful in children teeth filling
Operations of entire jaw surgery
Whitening is 90-95 % is successful in one session in tooth whitening procedures
Successful in entire treatments of operation, cyst, abscess, biopsy and mouth diseases and all side lips, tongue and gums
Benefits of laser to patient and dentist in terms of dentistry applications are as follows:
1. Bleeding is less as absent according to classical techniques
2. Anaesthesia is used very little or cases in which is not needed are plenty.
3. Fear is removed in children and the ones scared of tooth injection and apparatus
4.It is used comfortably since anaesthesia and excitement (since there is no sound) are not available in heart-high blood pressure patients.
5. There is very little bleeding in diabetic and systematic patients and this crates very comfortable working environment
6. Wound healing is very fast in operation and gum diseases when compared with classical methods. The reason for this is that working site is sterilized or disinfected by laser during procedure.
7. Since full sterilization is provided in very difficulty canal root therapies, likelihood of tooth recovery is very high.
8. It has a successful application range in adults living bad experiences from tooth apparatus and the ones who will start treatment for the first time and the children who are very scared.
Dr. Mehmet Ali Özer
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