The Use of Carbon Dioxide Laser in Oral Tissues

Yıl 2007, Cilt: 1 Sayı: 4, 55 - 62, 01.06.2007

Yakup Üstün Onur Özçelik

Öz

In today’s world of technology, remarkableimprovements are taking place especially in thefield of medicine. The success rates of the performed medical applications are rising withregard to the modern technology; and parallelto these improvements, the expectations of thepatients are also rising. Patients are not seekingfor only a successful treatment; they also desireintraoperative and postoperative comfort.With the rapid improvement in laser technology after 1960’s, lasers have been widely usedin oral tissues. Patients are more willing to havelaser treatments instead of conventional treatments because by the use of lasers a widerange of bloodless and painless intraoral applications can be done. Laser applications areeasy and simple to perform for the dentists. In this article, the intraoral indications of carbon dioxide laser which especially has advantages for its use in oral tissues are reviewed

Anahtar Kelimeler

carbon dioxide laser, oral, indication

Karbon Dioksit Lazerin Ağız Dokularında Kullanımı

Öz

Günümüzün teknoloji dünyasında özellikle tıpalanında çarpıcı geliflmeler olmaktadır.Gerçeklefltirilen tıbbi giriflimlerin bafları oranları modern teknoloji sayesinde her geçen günbiraz daha artmakta ve hastaların hekimlerinden beklentileri de bu geliflmelere paralelolarak yükselmektedir. Artık hastalar hekimlerinin uygulayacağı tedavide sadece baflarıyıdeğil aynı zamanda ifllem sırasında vesonrasında konforu da aramaktadırlar. Lazer teknolojisinin 1960’lı yıllardan sonragöstermifl olduğu hızlı ilerleme sayesinde artıklazerler ağız içi dokularda yaygın olarak kullanılır hale gelmifltir. Hastalar lazer uygulamalarını konvansiyonel yöntemlere tercihetmektedirler çünkü lazer kullanımı ile ağız içindeki pek çok ifllem kanamasız ve minimal ağrıile gerçeklefltirilebilmektedir. Lazerlerin kullanımı difl hekimleri açısından oldukça basit vekolaydır. Bu yazıda özellikle ağız içi yumuflak dokulardakullanım avantajları olan karbondioksit lazerinkullanım endikasyonları gözden geçirilmifltir

Anahtar Kelimeler

Karbon dioksit lazer, oral, endikasyon

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