Caries Management with the Light

Abstract

Since lasers were first used for cavity preparation in 1964 by Goldman et al., there have been several reports of their application to clinical dentistry. They are widely used for incising oral soft tissue, hemostasis, coagulation, and evaporation in oral and periodontal surgery, and have recently been reported a new finding about the caries treatment. We report that the possibility of the caries diagnosis, caries prevention, selective removal of the caries with the light.