Oral applications of ultra-short laser pulses - A new approach for gentle and painless treatment?

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6261 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Yousif, A ^a,b   Strassl, M ^a   Wieger, V ^a   Zoppel, S ^c   Wintner, E ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAGHDAD   (Iraq)

^c VORARLBERG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ablation thresholds of dental restoration materials; Ablation thresholds of dental tissues; Dental implant laser cleaning; Lasers in dentistry; Scanned ultra short laser pulses

Indexed keywords

DENTAL MATERIALS; DENTISTRY; PATIENT TREATMENT; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; TISSUE; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

DENTAL CAVITY; DENTAL IMPLANT LASER CLEANING; SCANNED ULTRA-SHORT LASER PULSES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 33747364206     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.686370     Document Type: Conference Paper

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