Abstract
Now-a-days, almost every specialty area of dentistry is utilizing the powers of laser energy for therapeutic purposes. The diode laser is the most popular soft tissue laser and commonly used in dentistry. A diode laser with wavelengths ranging from 810 to 980 nm in a continuous or pulsed mode is used as a possible instrument for soft tissue surgery in the oral cavity. The 810 nm devices predominate in dentistry, whereas 810 nm is specific for hemoglobin absorption. Diode lasers have many advantages over traditional surgical and therapeutic techniques in addition to providing bloodless surgical and postsurgical course with minimal swelling, scarring, and others things noted are less pain, excellent hemostasis, rapid wound healing and bactericidal action with the minimally invasive procedure. In the present paper, we discuss various uses of the diode laser such as frenectomy, implant surgery, vestibular deepening, and gingival enlargement procedures in dentistry.
 Keywords: Diode laser; frenectomy, Implant Surgery, Vestibular Deepning, Gingival enlargement
Highlights
A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of photons
Even before the ruby laser, the idea of a semiconductor as an active medium was first published by Basov, Vul, and Popov in 1959, and was registered by the State Committee for Inventions and Discoveries of the USSR Council of Ministers with the priority date 7 July, 1958.(3) Lasers have been classified traditionally according to the physical construction of the laser i.e. based on the active medium e.g., gas, liquid, solid state, or semiconductor diode
In order to maximize the thermal reaction, there should be a close match between the laser wavelength and the chromophore(s) present in the target tissue
Summary
A laser is a device that emits light (electromagnetic radiation) through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of photons. A 35 year old male patient reported to the Department Dentistry,Anugrah Narayan Magadh Medical College and Hospital.Gaya,Bihar, of 3 months after the placement of 2 two- stage implants, for the second stage surgery. Diode laser was used at a setting of 2 watt, pulsed mode with 0.2 ms pulse interval to excise a circular piece of tissue covering each implant (Fig 7). A 20 year old female patient reported to the Department of Dentistry,Anugrah Narayan Magadh Medical College and Hospital.Gaya,Bihar with the chief complaint of unaesthetic exposure of roots of the lower front teeth, which started 2 years back (Fig 9). Case 4: A 19 year old female patient reported to the Department of Dentistry, Anugrah Narayan Magadh Medical College and Hospital,Gaya, Bihar with a chief complaint of gum enlargement in the lower front lower region since 1 month (Fig 12). Healing was uneventful and the gingival contour and size achieved was remarkable (Fig 14)
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