Lasers have been used in medicine and dentistry for a few decades with surprisingly good application in some areas and poor in others. The advantages of using lasers over scalpels include greater precision, a relatively bloodless surgical and post-surgical course, sterilization of the surgical area, minimal swelling and scarring, coagulation, vaporization, cutting, minimal or no suturing, and less or no post-surgical pain. Today I will discuss the advantages of using lasers in dentistry, along with some of the dieadvantages.

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