results and conclusion: lasers are useful for soft tissue surgery in modern dentistry, especially in relation to pediatric patients due to the rapid and regular wound healing without sutures. introduction: epulis granulomatosa is a lesion which grows from an extraction socket. it can be misdiagnosed with lesions of the same clinical appearance such as: foreign body or pyogenic granuloma, or as ...

introduction: the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of photodynamic therapy in the treatment of experimental corneal neovascularization (nv) with benzoporphyrin derivative (bpd). methods: one group was considered as control (n=6 eyes) then, corneal nv was induced in 30 new zealand male rabbits (n=60 eyes) by placing 7.0 silk sutures at midstromal depth approximately1mm from th...

the purpose of these case reports is to analyze the results of gingivectomy and gingival troughing to determine the evidence on the effectiveness of laser-assisted soft tissue procedures and soft tissue management in aesthetic dentistry.the patients in these case reports underwent 980 nm diode laser assisted gingivectomy and gingival troughing to achieve immediate hemostasis and moisture contro...

laser is one of the sources that induce a biological effect in higher plants. the positive effect of laser on some crops has been proved. this research was carried out to study the effect of laser radiation on the accumulation of proline in spring wheat (triticum aestivum cv. kavir) under different nacl treatment levels. semi-coherent red beam, infrared beam and one-second harmonics of neodymiu...

BACKGROUND High-fluence diode lasers with contact cooling have emerged as the gold standard to remove unwanted hair. Lowering the energy should result in less pain and could theoretically affect the efficacy of the therapy. OBJECTIVE To compare the safety and efficacy of a low fluence high repetition rate 810-nm diode laser to those of a high fluence, low repetition rate diode laser for perma...

The actual market volume of high-power lasers for manufacturing is dominated by diffusion cooled CO2 laser systems at the multi-kW range and lamp pumped Nd:YAG laser systems at the kW range. Substituting the lamps by diodes the Nd:YAG laser in rod design entered the market as diode pumped solid state laser of the first generation. With output powers up to 6 kW the diode pumped rod is used in in...

We describe a compact, economic and versatile diode laser system based on commercial laser diode and a collimation tube, optically stabilized by means of feedback from a diffraction grating. Detailed instructions for the construction and operation of the diode laser system are presented. These instructions include machine drawings for the parts to be constructed. Our system offers single-mode o...

A KGd(WO₄)₂ Raman laser was pumped within the cavity of a cw diode-pumped InGaAs semiconductor disk laser (SDL). The Raman laser threshold was reached for 5.6 W of absorbed diode pump power, and output power up to 0.8 W at 1143 nm, with optical conversion efficiency of 7.5% with respect to the absorbed diode pump power, was demonstrated. Tuning the SDL resulted in tuning of the Raman laser outp...

The laser diode facet damage is one of the impeding factors of the high-power laser diode operation. To overcome this restriction laser diode facet coating can be utilized. During the high power operation of the laser diode, it is observed that the single layer anti reflection (AR) coating at the front facet shows optical damage while the multilayer high reflective coating at the back facet rem...