Debris screening and heat diffusion in Er:YAG drilling of hard dental tissues

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2973, Issue , 1997, Pages 11-22

  Majaron, Boris ^a   Šušterčič, Dušan ^b   Lukač, Matjaž ^a  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b University Clinical   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Debris screening; Dentin; Double threshold; Enamel; Er:YAG; Heat diffusion; Laser ablation

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; DEBRIS; DENTISTRY; DIFFUSION; ENAMELS; ERBIUM; LASER ABLATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER BEAMS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION;

ABLATION EFFICIENCIES; ABLATION FRONTS; ABLATION PROCESSES; ANALYTICAL MODELS; DENTAL TISSUES; DENTIN; DOUBLE THRESHOLD; ER:YAG; ER:YAG LASERS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUMS; FLUENCE; HEAT DIFFUSION; HUMAN DENTINS; LASER FLUENCE; LASER PROPERTIES; SIDE EFFECTS; SIMPLE MODELS; THRESHOLD BEHAVIORS;

LASERS;

EID: 19544380334     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.273593     Document Type: Conference Paper

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