Er:YAG laser for dentistry: Basics, actual questions, and perspectives

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2327, Issue , 1994, Pages 76-86

  Hibst, Raimund ^a   Keller, Ulrich ^a  

^a Abt Ffir ZahnArztliche Chirurgie und Rontgenologie ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; DENTISTRY; ERBIUM; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER TISSUE INTERACTION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

ABLATION EFFICIENCY; ABLATION THRESHOLDS; CAVITY PREPARATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; LASER PARAMETERS; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; ROOT CANAL PREPARATION; TEMPERATURE INCREASE;

DENTAL CUTTING TOOLS;

EID: 0002588307     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.197593     Document Type: Conference Paper

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