Clinical Uses

Waterlase® is fundamentally transforming the way patients experience their dental visits.

LASER DENTISTRY

Waterlase® was first cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to cut tooth structure in 1998 and since that time has received numerous additional clearances from the FDA for a wide range of procedures on teeth, bone and gum tissue.

LASER HARD TISSUE APPLICATIONS

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

LASER SOFT TISSUE APPLICATIONS I

SOFT TISSUE PROCEDURES INCLUDING PULPAL TISSUES

• Excisional and incisional biopsies
• Exposure of unerupted teeth
• Fibroma removal
• Flap preparation - incision of soft tissue to prepare a flap and expose the bone
• 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

LASER SOFT TISSUE APPLICATIONS II

• 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 of inflamed soft tissue
• Treatment of canker sores, herpetic and aphthous ulcers of the oral Mucosa
• Vestibuloplasty

LASER COSMETIC PROCEDURES

BONE SURGICAL PROCEDURES

• Cutting, shaving, contouring and resection of oral osseous tissues (bone)
• Osteotomy

LASER ENDODONTICS

ROOT CANAL/ENDODONTIC PROCEDURES

• 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

LASER PERIODONTAL THERAPY

LASER PERIODONTAL PROCEDURES

• Full thickness flap
• Partial thickness flap
• 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, etc.)
• Osseous crown lengthening