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  • Online course on laser application and growth factors in dentistry

Online course on laser application and growth factors in dentistry

  • 2 ECTS
  • Limited places
  • Online (Campus Sant Cugat)
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1. Introduction, history, the basics, laser classification and safety standards:

  • History and development of laser technology
  • Basic physics:
  • Nature, properties and sources of light.
  • Stimulated and spontaneous emission.
  • Generation of laser light (basic outline of a laser).
  • Features of laser light.
  • Laser transmission.
  • Types of emission.
  • Parametres.
  • Classification of lasers according to their action mechanism.
  • Safety rules for laser use. 

2. Neodymium and CO2 and their clinical potential:

  • Neodymium and CO2 in everyday practice: Introduction and overview of its clinical potential.
  • Indications and applications in dentistry.

3. Using erbium and diode lasers in periodontology (2 hours). 

  • Introduction to photodynamic therapy.
  • Treatment of radicular hyperesthesia.

4. The diode laser in soft tissue surgery:

  • Using lasers to deal with keratinised soft tissue structures: oral mucosa labial and lingual frenula, hemangiomas, minor salivary gland tumours. 
  • Using lasers to deal with keratinised soft tissue structures: epulis, gingivectomy, papillomas and fibromas.
  • Using a diode laser for vestibuloplasty.
  • Using a KTP or 532nm laser in surgery.

5. Orthodontic laser therapy: photobiomodulation during orthodontic movement.

Use of laser technology before, during and in the finishing (bleaching) of orthodontic cases.

Before: Corticotomies

During: Photobiomodulation during movement to facilitate dental movement and decrease the pain.

6. Laser use in dental aesthetics and after orthodontic treatment:

Gingival depigmentation

7. Dental bleaching and endodontics 

8. The erbium laser in dental conservation: laser interaction with enamel, dentin and cement.

Treatment of dental caries.

9. Laser periimplantitis treatment using lasers

10. The use of magnification in dentistry.

Use of L-PRF (plasma rich in platelets and leukocytes) and PRGF (plasma rich in growth factors). 

Lecturers/Professors 

Dr Vanessa Ruiz, Dr Isabel Sáez, Dr Patricia Bargiela, Dr Lidia Barreiro. 

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