Ablation of dental hard tissues with a microsecond pulsed carbon dioxide laser operating at 9.3-μm with an integrated scanner

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6843, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Assa, Shlomo ^a   Meyer, Steve ^a   Fried, Daniel ^b  

^a Inlight Corporation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Caries removal; CO2 laser; Dentin; Dentistry; Enamel; Laser ablation

Indexed keywords

(140.3500) LASERS; DENTAL HARD TISSUES; HARD TISSUES; INTEGRATED SCANNER; LOW COSTS; PULSE DURATION (PD); PULSED CARBON DIOXIDE LASER;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASERS; COBALT COMPOUNDS; DENTISTRY; GAS LASERS; HEALTH; LASERS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION;

TISSUE;

EID: 42149107003     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.778799     Document Type: Conference Paper

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