Introduction

The dental laser is the latest in modern innovations for the 21st Century and is a new paradigm for patient comfort, according a painless experience and furthermore providing for durable and sustained Dental Practice. 

But Why Lasers?

Laser surgery does not mandate or require anaesthetic injections. (Not needed in > 93% of patients). The laser itself being a sterilizing radiation, it imparts a Bactericidal effect on the surgical area. This is of paramount importance in diseases of the gums where non invasive (without cutting with surgical blade) sterilizing of diseased gums can be effected. 

What kind of after-effects can I expect?

The dental laser often eliminates or mitigates the unpleasant after-effects associated with many conventional or normal dental procedures or dental surgery such as soreness, bleeding, inflammation, need to place stitches, and numbness. After laser surgery there is absolutely no bleeding, there is no necessity to place stitches after laser surgery and thereby no need to return to the dental clinic to remove them, no need to take antibiotics before or after laser surgery and painkillers are not needed most often or very minimal. 

Will it hurt?

Most patients find laser procedures remarkably comfortable. So comfortable in fact that in many cases, no numbing is required. People who have experienced laser treatment report feeling nothing more than the touch of the handpiece and an occasional slight sensation of warmth. 

Do I qualify?

The Laser surgery does not have any contraindications for Cardiac Patients, Diabetics or Hypertensives (High Blood Pressure),in fact it is a boon to such patients as it is beneficial being a sterilizing radiation.

Soft Tissue and other Procedures:

• Vestibuloplasty
• Frenectomy
• Flapless Periodontal treatment of pockets less than 8-10mm(LANAP)
• Operculectomy
• Sialoliths
• Mucocele
• Laser Bleaching
• Desensitization
• Fibroma/ Tissue Excision
• Implant uncovering in second stage surgery
• Painless Healing of Apthous or other ulcers
• TMJ Pain relief or Arthritic Pain
• Hard Tissue procedures
• Treatment of Infected implant sites as in perimplantitis
• Implant osteotomy
• Osseous recontouring without raising flaps
• Conservative preparations and restorations