Nd:YAG lasers treating of carious lesion and root canal in vitro

Danqing Xia; Zenggui Mo; Gang Zhao; Fei Guo; Chao You; Ze Chen; Xiao Zhu; Zhengjia Li; Di Chen; Xiaohong Fan

doi:10.1155/2012/584079

Nd:YAG lasers treating of carious lesion and root canal in vitro

Danqing Xia
, Zenggui Mo
, Gang Zhao
, Fei Guo
, Chao You
, Ze Chen
, Xiao Zhu
, Zhengjia Li
, Di Chen
, Xiaohong Fan^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Dental caries is a transmissible bacterial disease process, with cavities at the end, and caused by acids from bacterial metabolism. The essence of dental treatment is to clean and disinfect bacterial contamination from the tooth. In this work, we tried to demonstrate the cleaning and disinfecting effects of Nd:YAG laser irradiation on dental carious lesion and root canal in vitro. Acousto-optic Q-switched quasicontinuous and Cr³⁺:YAG crystal Q-switched pulse Nd:YAG lasers were employed to treat caries lesion and the root canal, respectively. Results showed that acousto-optic Q-switched quasicontinuous Nd:YAG laser irradiation and Cr³⁺:YAG crystal Q-switched pulse Nd:YAG laser irradiation could rapidly clean decayed material and bacterial contamination from dental carious lesion and the narrow tail end of root canal with minimally invasive in vitro, respectively. It was concluded that acousto-optic Q-switched quasicontinuous laser irradiation may be a rapid and effective alternative caries treatment, and Cr³⁺:YAG crystal Q-switched pulse Nd:YAG laser irradiation may be an effective method for canal cleaning and disinfecting during root canal therapy.

Original language	English
Article number	584079
Journal	International Journal of Photoenergy
Volume	2012
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/584079
Publication status	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes

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