Laser-Assisted Dental Implantation

July 11, 2022 · 3 min read

In recent years, lasers have become extremely popular in dentistry. Many new manufacturers and laser types have appeared — diode, erbium, and others.

The main advantage of a laser over conventional surgery is that it seals the wound edges during the incision, which in turn provides benefits like no bleeding, a contactless approach, and sterility.

But there's another side to it — when a laser makes the tissue incision, the edges can no longer heal back together the way they would with a blade cut, precisely because of that same sealing effect (in some cases, not having the edges rejoin is actually desirable — then it becomes an advantage).

Another nuance is tissue overheating: every laser currently in use has a thermal effect on the tissue adjacent to where it's applied. Overheating bone tissue by just a few degrees causes irreversible damage.

That's why preparing an implant site with a laser is a fairly risky procedure, with more contraindications than indications. Only a specialist can decide which procedures actually call for a laser, and when it would do more harm than good.

When you get your implant procedure done at the Dobrozub clinic, you can be confident in our doctors' professionalism. We don't just regularly attend training courses taught by world-renowned names in dentistry — we also teach courses ourselves for Ukrainian specialists.