Treatment of periodontal pockets with a diode laser

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 302-311

  Moritz, Andreas ^a   Schoop, Ulrich ^a   Goharkhay, Kawe ^a   Schauer, Petra ^a   Doertbudak, Orhun ^a   Wernisch, Johann ^b   Sperr, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Microbiology; Root; Scaling

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE LASER; HUMAN; MOUTH HYGIENE; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PREVENTIVE DENTISTRY; PREVOTELLA INTERMEDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; DENTAL SCALING; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LASERS; ORAL HYGIENE; PERIODONTAL INDEX; PERIODONTAL POCKET; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PREVOTELLA INTERMEDIA; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 0031815990     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1998)22:5<302::AID-LSM7>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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