The caries-preventive potential of subablative Er:YAG and Er:YSGG laser radiation in an intraoral model: A pilot study

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 312-317

  Apel, Christian ^a   Birker, L ^a   Meister, J ^a   Weiss, C ^b   Gutknecht, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMINERALIZATION; SURFACE HARDNESS; TEST SURFACES;

LASER ABLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROHARDNESS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LASER APPLICATIONS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMINERALIZATION; DENTAL CARIES; ENAMEL; ERBIUM YAG LASER; ERBIUM YTTRIUM SCANDIUM GALLIUM GARNET LASER; HARDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; PILOT STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL ENAMEL; DENTAL ENAMEL SOLUBILITY; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEODYMIUM; PILOT PROJECTS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOOTH DEMINERALIZATION;

EID: 4444221314     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2004.22.312     Document Type: Article

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