The possibility of dowel removal by pulsed Nd:YAG laser irradiation

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 268-274

  Takashina, Masaaki ^a   Ebihara, Arata ^a   Sunakawa, Mitsuhiro ^a,b   Anjo, Tomoo ^a   Takeda, Atsushi ^a   Suda, Hideaki ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alloy; Contact microradiography; Dental cement; Endodontic retreatment; Scanning electron microscope

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; TOOTH CEMENT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTIN; ENDODONTICS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MICRORADIOGRAPHY; NEODYMIUM LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TOOTH ROOT CANAL;

DENTAL PULP CAVITY; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; POST AND CORE TECHNIQUE; RADIOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036398780     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.10064     Document Type: Article

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