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December 2, 2002 at 2:39 pm #3380 Reply

whitertth
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lased this abscess on a 75 y/o male…while tooth is hopeless abscess healed…I left calculus there on purpose to see how it would heal even with an irritant present…and it healed nicely….

December 2, 2002 at 6:28 pm #10691 Reply

Anonymous
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Ron,
I edited your post because you had uploaded the image 003 about 7 times. Try and keep your picture sizes in the 400×600 pixel range as they will fit nicely on the screen. Go ahead and try the post op again- after you click upload then click on the thumbnail 1x-this will put the code in your post linking to the image- it won’t put the image in until you actually post.

What laser used?Settings?Why did you decide to leave the calculus?

Welcome to the board.

December 2, 2002 at 8:59 pm #10692 Reply

whitertth
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I left the calculus to see if ti would affect healing obviuosly it didnt…waterlase setting was at 1.25 with 15 air and 13 water

December 3, 2002 at 1:21 am #10696 Reply

2thdoc
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Ron K,
Why not remove calculus and use the watelase in the pockets to see what it would do with this hopeless tooth( since you weren’t extracting anyway)?

December 3, 2002 at 3:25 am #10693 Reply

whitertth
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i did do that after….i just wanted to see even in the presence of an irritant how would my healing be….so far so good…..

December 3, 2002 at 4:55 am #10698 Reply

Robert Gregg DDS
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I wouldn’t call that tooth hopeless. It is healing nicely, the laser created a “closed system”, now sit back and watch the bone fill in.

What type of laser and what power and parameters did you use?

December 3, 2002 at 5:57 pm #10694 Reply

whitertth
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waterlase as indicated…15 air/13 water….. this is a one week post op…will post other photos when i see patient

December 4, 2002 at 2:26 pm #10697 Reply

2thlaser
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Ron, Welcome to the forum. Everyone, I met Ron in NYC last weekend at the Greater NY meeting. He is a great asset to our forum. He has a LOT of laser experience to share, so ask him questions also. He uses a Waterlase, and is very excited as well. I have also treated an abcess like this with GREAT success. Flew by the seat of my pants on it, and it worked great. Awesome stuff Ron, keep up the posts!
Mark

PS…Great meeting you BTW. Spinach anyone!!?!

December 5, 2002 at 3:08 am #10695 Reply

whitertth
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That spinach was pretty awesome wasnt it? I wonder if we lased that spinach how long would it take us to get i that crispy.
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