13th World Congress for Laser Dentistry

26-28, April 2012

Barcelona, Spain

Meeting Abstract

Sponsors: World Federation for Laser Dentistry

- Oral Presentation 66

TITLE: A new non surgical laser approach to eliminate periodontal pockets.

AUTHORS: Aragüés A, España A, Arnabat J.

University of Barcelona. Private practice limited to laser periodontics in Burgos at Esencial

SOURCE: Med Oral Patol Oral Cir Bucal. 2012 May 1;17(Supplement1):S66.

* doi:10.4317/medoral.17643565

http://dx.doi.org/10.4317/medoral.17643565

Abstract

Introduction: For so many years, the way the periodontal disease has been diagnosed, treated and maintained has suffered many changes and modifications because of the appearance of different instruments and techniques. Until now, the conventional way of dealing with the periodontal diseases included a first stage of the treatment (non surgical approach) and a second stage of the treatment (surgical approach) wich is necessary in most of the moderate or advanced stages of the pe-riodontal diseases. With the use of different types of lasers, many of the cases in wich a second stage of the treatment should be needed, could be treated without the need of a surgical procedure.

In this study, we present a new way of treating those remaining pockets without the need of a surgical procedure. This approach to treat the periodontal pockets with laser will prevent the vast majorityof the surgical treatments needed when the conventional technique is used to treat the 4 to 6 mm residual pockets

Aim of the study: The aim of this study is to reduce the number of periodontal flap surgeries in order to give the patients a less invasive and more confortable treatment by using this diode laser.

Objective: To measure the depth of the periodontal pockets before and after the laser treatment in order to quantify the reduction of the pockets after each laser application.