Laser Dentistry

In our clinic we use the advanced and very popular Biolase lasers. WaterLase uses a unique, powerful interaction of patented YSGG laser wavelength and proprietary water/air spray that cuts, etches and shapes target tissues without contact, heat, vibration or pressure. So many procedures can be done painlessly with no anesthetic. WaterLase is also highly effective for gums, skin, bone surgery– more precise and with less bleeding than a scalpel! Truly Painless Dentistry!

Our services include:

Hard Tissue Procedures:
– Class I, II, III, IV and V cavity preparation
– Caries removal
– Hard tissue surface roughening or etching
– Enameloplasty: excavation of pits and fissures for placement of sealants

Bone Surgical Procedures: 
– Cutting, shaving, contouring and resection of oral osseous tissues (bone)
– Osteotomy

Soft Tissue Procedures: 
– Excisional and incisional biopsies
– Exposure of unerupted teeth
– Flap preparation – incision of soft tissue to prepare a flap and expose unerupted teeth (hard and soft tissue impactions)
– Frenectomy and frenotomy
– Gingival troughing for crown impressions
– Gingivectomy, Gingivoplasty, Gingival incision and excision
– Hemostasis: controlling bleeding

Root Canal/Endodontic Procedures:
– The WaterLase MD™ with Endolase™ Radial Firing Tips is indicated for disinfection of the root canal after endodontic instrumentation.
– Tooth preparation to obtain access to root canal
– Root canal preparation including enlargement
– Root canal debridement and cleaning
– Flap preparation – incision of soft tissue to prepare a flap and expose the bone Cutting bone to prepare a window access to the apex (apices) of the roots
– Apicoectomy
– Root end preparation for retrofill
– Removal of pathological tissues and hyperplastic tissue

Periodontal Procedures:
– Full, partial and split thickness flap
– Laser soft tissue curettage
– Laser removal of diseased, infected, inflamed and necrosed soft tissue within the periodontal pocket
– Removal of highly inflamed edematous tissue affected by bacteria penetration of the pocket lining and junctional epithelium
– Removal of granulation tissue from bony defects
– Sulcular debridement (removal of diseased or inflamed soft tissue in the periodontal pocket to improve clinical indices including gingival index, gingival bleeding index, probe depth, attachment loss and tooth mobility)
– Osteoplasty and osseous recontouring (removal of bone to correct osseous defects and create physiologic osseous contours)
– Ostectomy (resection of bone to restore bony architecture, resection of bone for grafting)
– Osseous crown lengthening

Other Procedures:
– Implant recovery 
– Incision and drainage of abscesses 
– Laser soft tissue curettage of the post-extraction tooth sockets and the periapical are during apical surgery 
– Leukoplakia 
– Operculectomy 
– Oral papillectomies 
– Pulpotomy 
– Pulp extirpation 
– Pulpotomy as an adjunct to root canal therapy 
– Root canal debridement and cleaning 
– Reduction of gingival hypertrophy 
– Soft tissue crown lengthening 
– Sulcular debridement (removal of diseased and inflamed soft tissue) 
– Treatment of canker sores, herpetic and aphthous ulcers of the oral Mucosa 
– Vestibuloplasty