Mechanism of water augmentation during IR laser ablation of dental enamel

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 186-193

  Fried, Daniel ^a   Ashouri, Nahal ^a   Breunig, Thomas ^a   Shori, Ramesh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CO2 laser; Dental enamel; Erbium laser; Infrared spectromicroscopy; Laser ablation

Indexed keywords

APATITE; HYDROXYAPATITE; WATER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENAMEL; ERBIUM YAG LASER; HOLMIUM LASER; INFRARED RADIATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; IRRADIATION; LASER SURGERY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TISSUE; TOOTH; WATER ABSORPTION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DENTAL ENAMEL; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; WATER;

EID: 0036381311     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.10085     Document Type: Article

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