If you consider yourself somewhat of an anxious dental patient and are seeking extreme safety and comfort, you might consider laser treatment. Only 6 percent of general dentists own a laser for soft-tissue applications.  

Benefits of Laser Dentistry

Here are some of the major benefits associated with laser dentistry:

• Procedures performed using soft tissue dental lasers may not require sutures (stitches). 
• Certain laser dentistry procedures do not require anesthesia. 
• Laser dentistry minimizes bleeding because the high-energy light beam aids in the clotting (coagulation) of exposed blood vessels, thus inhibiting blood loss. 
• Bacterial infections are minimized because the high-energy beam sterilizes the area being worked on. 
• Damage to surrounding tissue is minimized. 
• Wounds heal faster and tissue can be regenerated. 

Application of Laser Dentistry

The application of lasers in dentistry opens the door for dentists to perform a wide variety of dental procedures they otherwise may not be capable of performing. Dentists using lasers in dentistry have become adept at incorporating the state-of-the-art precision technology into a number of common and not-so-common procedures.

Soft Tissue (Gum) Laser Dentistry Procedures

Other Laser Dentistry Applications