S2: Twenty-first Century Laser-Assisted Dentistry

This course is a prerequisite for Course S3

This presentation will contrast the daily challenges faced in the conventional delivery of a variety of dental procedures against the solutions offered through laser-assisted dentistry. This lecture covers various laser applications. These general applications include cavity preparations, various soft tissue procedures, endodontic preparation, and bony procedures such as crown lengthening and tori reduction. In addition, laser dental hygiene applications will be discussed. Examples of these procedures using both the diode laser and the hard tissue laser will be shown. 

Educational Objectives:

• Understand basic laser safety and physics. 
• Learn clinical applications of dental hard and soft tissue lasers. 
• Learn common laser dental hygiene applications.