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Volume 2 Issue 3 (July-September, 2014)

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IMPERATIVE ROLE OF LASERS IN PERSPECTIVE FUTURE DENTAL RESEARCH AND ADVANCEMENTS: AN INSIGHT STORY
Puneet Kumar, Vineet Gupta, Arti Dixit, Simrat Marwah

Year: 2014 // Volume: 2/ / Issue: 3/ / Page: 114-117
1,4- Department of Community Dentistry, Shree Bankey Bihari Dental College, Ghaziabad,
2- Department of Oral Pathology, Shree Bankey Bihari Dental College, Ghaziabad,
3- Department of Community Dentistry, ITS Dental College, Ghaziabad.
Corresponding Author- Dr. Puneet Kumar, Departmemt of Community Dentistry, Shree Bankey Bihari Dental College, Ghaziabad
This article may be cited as: Kumar P, Gupta V, Dixit A, Marwah S. Imperative role of Lasers in perspective future dental research and advancements: An Insight story. J Adv Med Dent Scie Res 2014;2(3):114-117.

Laser is one of the latest technologies which promise the dentist and patient to deliver superior quality of dentistry. The advantages of laser dentistry over conventional approach are several e.g minimal bleeding, surgeries with no or minimal use of anesthesia, tooth preparations without creating micro fractures etc. This article highlights different types of lasers used in dentistry with mechanism of action especially emphasizing on the use of lasers in Prosthodontics, its advantages, disadvantages and limitations. This article is an attempt to create more awareness about lasers amongst clinicians and to make use of it for better practice. The continued development of laser technology may lead in creating a different branch in dentistry “Lasers Dentistry”.

 
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