Ultra-short laser pulses in dentistry -a solution towards painless dental treatment?

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6344 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

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

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAGHDAD   (Iraq)

Author keywords

Dental restoration materials; Lasers in dentistry; Plasma mediated ablation; Scanning of laser pulses; Ultra short laser pulses

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DENTISTRY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PLASMA DEVICES; TISSUE CULTURE;

DENTAL RESTORATION MATERIALS; LASERS IN DENTISTRY; PLASMA EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; PLASMA MEDIATED ABLATION;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 33748708290     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.693398     Document Type: Conference Paper

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