Dental Implants Placement Using an Er:yag Laser - Two Case Reports

Since the first article by Bronemark about the modern state-of-the-art method of performing implant surgery, the accepted method of implant placement has been determining the location of the implant, raising a flap using a scalpel, elevating the full thickness flap using a periosteal elevator and then drilling a progressively larger opening in the bone using a very precise low speed drill with a progressively larger diameter, then placing an implant whose diameter slightly exceeds the opening prepared to accept it.