Dentin ablation with three infrared lasers

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 121-128

  Neev, Joseph ^a   Pham, Kevin ^a   Lee, Jon P ^a   White, Joel M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

laser tissue interaction; mechanical; plasma; thermal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENTAL CARIES; DENTIN; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER SURGERY; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOGRAPHY;

DENTIN; HUMANS; LASERS; TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030029927     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1996)18:2<121::AID-LSM1>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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