Hard Tissue
General Indications*
• 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
* For use on adult and pediatric patients
Root Canal Hard Tissue Indications
• Tooth preparation to obtain access to root canal
• Root canal preparation including enlargement
• Root canal debridement and cleaning
• Laser root canal disinfection after endodontic instrumentation
Endodontic Surgery (Root Amputation) Indications
• 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 root(s).
• Apicoectomy – amputation of the root end.
• Root end preparation for retrofill amalgam or composite.
• Removal of pathological tissues (i.e., cysts, neoplasm or abscess) and hyperplastic tissues
(i.e., granulation tissue) from around the apex
Bone Surgical Indications
• Cutting, shaving, contouring and resection of oral osseous tissues (bone)
• Osteotomy
Laser Periodontal Procedures
• 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, infected, inflamed or necrosed 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