Clinical Uses

Clinical Uses

A WaterLase laser system equips a dentist to perform the full range of laser
procedures – from soft and hard tissue, to bone, endodontics and periodontics.

WaterLase Dentistry™ Clinical Uses

WaterLase® was first cleared by the US 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 and 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
  • The WaterLase MD™ with Endolase™ Radial Firing Tips is indicated for disinfection of the root canal after endodontic instrumentation.
  • 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
  • Waterlase MD™ Turbo Er,Cr:YSGG assisted new attachment procedure (cementum-mediated periodontal ligament newattachment to the root surface in the absence of long junctional epithelium).
  • 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