Modern dentistry is now turning to use laser in every bit of dental specialty as the world experiment with laser as a cutting edge tool in almost every field. Smile Artistry, the dental clinic with modern approach and the pioneers in using latest equipments in south Kerala has started using dental tissue cut laser. We use diode dental tissue laser of the reputed AMD laser, USA.
Laser is used mainly for cosmetic dental works especially in the front teeth, where you need a high end skill and technique to improve your smile and look.
Using lasers for skin cutting is smooth and painless and the post treatment discomfort is less and swelling is almost nil. The gums and skin of your anterior teeth are shaped or contoured skillfully to give you an exceptional marvelous smile.
Designing your smile, and giving the required length and breadth for your front teeth using the ‘Golden proportion’ or ‘Golden theory’ may also need the crown lengthening , which is a procedure to expose that part of teeth covering the gum. The periodontal or gum surgical works which needs fine carving and shaping also use lasers. Plastic gum procedures are what we call as skin grafting for cosmetic gum procedures.
If you need to replace missing teeth, after a trauma or unfortunate incident the fractured teeth though minimal of teeth structure is left in gums, lasers give fast solution in exposing the hidden tooth structure. The lost teeth could be immediately replaced as early as possible since using lasers give faster healing.
In aged patients where only tooth stumps are there fixing teeth permanently in the remaining teeth and stumps are helped to a greater extent with the help of laser. Smile cutting lasers need less healing time and the blood loss is less those works to put back the teeth is very easy now.
Our Implantologist also use laser to directly fix the teeth to the bone or gums and things will be easier and faster. Infection could also be reduced since the heat produced by laser light brings the bacterial collection down, and hence used for gum surgeries to stop the gum disiease . To pull out the teeth or for extraction of teeth that are hidden in the bone, which we call impacted teeth post extraction swelling and pain will be less when laser is used for incision.
For Root Canal treatment or R.C.T. the failure chance while saving teeth with this treatment is highly reduced. The Root Canal is disinfected, with lasers, the laser probe being introduced into the canal and high sterilization is obtained.So success rate is high for Root treatment using lasers combindly.
Gum coloring or gum bleaching is done in our clinic using this laser. You get a new skin removing your darker skin of your gum and the result may last for years.
Any small growth or benign growth may also be excised neatly with lasers and total removal is possible. Apthous ulcer or hot sores of mouth could be given relief. So children preparing for exam and those having executive job will be happy because after after this procedure pain is reduced to a great extend which may otherwise extend for long days.
Cosmetic filling like inlays or onlays replace the lost tooth structure and make the tooth very strong after that. The lab procedure of making this procedure will be precise, since the impression of your teeth after preparation will be better if the margin of your shaped teeth is defined using lasers.
Gummy smile where a large part of your gum are seen while you try to give a broad smile is an appealing laser is also used to contour you gum to the required level so that your confidence is regained. Ceramic veneering are done in clinic and for this too we use lasers whenever there need be a shaping of the gum for that cosmetic work.
These are few instances where we use lasers in our clinic and there are different clinical situations where we find different use for laser in our clinic.