Ron

Where do I get a camera like yours? The images are really nice. I’ve tried to put together my own setup, but the project is stalled & I need to move on.

By the way, I just purchased a Waterlase @ Townie I & I need help getting up to speed.

Cordially, Joe

Ron,II don’t know how I missed this thread. Great case!
It really does help to have cases like this posted for others to see.

Ron,

I remembered the lessons from this post of Sept 2002 about using the laser to assist with broken tooth extractions.

It was a lifesaver for us (me and the patient) since conventional techniques would have been difficult.  She is 91, early Alzheimers, gaggle of pills including anticoagulants, chronic abscess only draining thru the canal (and associated pain), heavy tissue overgrowth on the lingual and proximals.

I used the new-for-me Z-6 tip, 9 mm long, at a setting of 3.5W and 20W/50A for troughing the bone wide enough to get an elevator on it.

I did notice that I had to trough past the line angles to make the elevation of the root easier.

Erbium is not the best in coagulation, however I used no water and .75W on the internal aspect of the socket to “boil up” a clot reminiscent of the clots shown by Bob Gregg using the FR Pulsed Nd:YAG. The attempt was not to produce a large clot, but to treat the source of the bleeding along the walls of the socket starting at the apex.

Thanks for posting back in 2002 with pictures, Ron.  It was “timely” for me.

Patients daughter reported that only Tylenol was taken post-op and that the bleeding was minimal, stopping almost immediately.