Pulpal response to Er:YAG laser drilling of dentine in healthy human third molars

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 203-209

  Nair, P N Ramachandran ^a   Baltensperger, Marc M ^b   Luder, Hans Ulrich ^a   Eyrich, Gerold K H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ablation; Cavity preparations; Dental lasers; Pulpal effects

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ERBIUM; YTTRIUM;

ARTICLE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRILL; ENERGY; ERBIUM YAG LASER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; LASER; LONG TERM CARE; MICROSCOPY; MOLAR TOOTH; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; ODONTOBLAST; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; THICKNESS; TISSUE FIXATION; TOOTH EXTRACTION; TOOTH FILLING; TOOTH PULP; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VASODILATATION;

DENTAL PULP; DENTIN; DENTIN PERMEABILITY; HUMANS; LASERS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLAR, THIRD; NEODYMIUM; ROOT CANAL PREPARATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0346034599     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.10155     Document Type: Article

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