Laser therapy has numerous applications and may improve oral wound healing by encouraging cell regeneration, lessening pain, and modulating the immune system, but its use after tooth extraction ...

PEARL CITY, OAHU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Seven-year-old Audrey Cabanos had two cavities, but she wasn't anxious at all about seeing the dentist. "I told her there's no injection, it's going to be painless, ...

Laser gum surgery offers a minimally invasive alternative to traditional scalpel-based procedures, significantly reducing ...

Almost as soon as lasers were invented in the 1960s, curious dentists wondered if these powerful forms of light could be used on teeth, though those early lasers were much too crude for any useful ...

What effect does an erbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Er:YAG) laser have on the binding strengths of glass-fiber posts in root canal treatments? A new in vitro study measured the effect these ...

Laser dentistry has helped researchers discover more about the diets of our early human relatives. University of Utah scientists improved a method of testing fossil teeth, and showed that early human ...

I traveled to Mexico and decided to get my teeth whitened with a laser. It cost $200, which was cheaper than in the US, and I liked the results. Still, the experience left me wondering if I was going ...