Proper use of Er:YAG lasers and contact sapphire tips when cutting teeth and bone: Scientific principles and clinical application

Dentistry Today

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Bornstein, Eric ^a,b,c  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Nomir Medical Technologies   (United States)

^c OpusDent ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

BONE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DENTAL EQUIPMENT; DENTISTRY; ENAMEL; ENERGY; GEOMETRY; HEAT; HYDROGEN BOND; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; IRRADIATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MOLECULE; ORAL SURGERY; PHOTON; QUANTUM MECHANICS; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TOOTH; VIBRATION; VOLUMETRY; WATER ABSORPTION; YAG LASER;

ABSORPTION; ALUMINUM OXIDE; ALUMINUM SILICATES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ERBIUM; HEAT; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; JAW; LASER SURGERY; LASERS; PHOTOBIOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; TOOTH; WATER; YTTRIUM;

EID: 4544228570     PISSN: 87502186     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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