Hi Etienne…….here is a list. I will send some photos later this week…….to swamped right now. The list is off the top of my head.

1. Exposure of soft tissue and hard tissue impactions of teeth. I use both hard and soft tissue lasers ALOT for this.
2. Sulcular fibertomy after ortho.
3. Frenum removals to close diastemas both with and without brackets depending on the age of the patient
4. Gingivectomy for bracket placement on teeth and also when tissue is bunching up in places
5. Apthous ulcers or traumatic ulcers due to the brackets

There is five off the top of my head not even spending alot of time contemplating it.

Hope that gets you started.

Glenn

I discussed this with the ALD by email. IT is exactly as Allan mentioned.

The course must be provided by an accredited course provider.

The course must be recognized by the ALD.

I would be pissed off at Opus for this in my opinion because they are the ones leading you to believe that the course would be recognized by the ALD when they are not a recognized provider. If someone outside of the company provides the information then it will be recognized.

I hope that helps you, great stuff Allan and yes this is not good when companies mislead people on the ALD certification which is going to and is right now becoming alot harder to obtain.

Glenn

My patient is coming in today with the tongue parasthesia and I was just wondering how to figure out the Joules setting to treat him with a DIODE.

I dont have the NdYAG and so after 3 months of healing on his own , I am going to go in there and treat the dorsum of the tongue and the lingual tissue to see if I can get some improvement in the area.

I wanted to know about treatment regimens for this. I plan to treat him 1 week apart for a total of 4 weeks. At the end of 4 weeks if no improvement then I will refer him to the OS or to a neurologist.

Thanks in advance.

Glenn

Hello,
The orthodontists I know, and myself, often remove tissue between teeth that act as elastic bands to push teeth back appart after closing. This is most common with heavy frenum between front teeth. I used to do frenectomies with a scalpel and remove the tissue between the teeth as well. Now I use a laser and it is much less traumatic to the patient.

Good luck!

Extraction sites, that is ridge preservation still rely on keeping the alveolar “lip” from resorbing. So PRP alone doesn’t make sense w/o a bone graft material like BioOss, Puros, Grafton, etc.

Bob

Bob…….1 watt seems like alot (not really LLLT then). Yesterday I used .2w very close to the dorsum of the tongue, side and and the lingual nerve injury site as well as the lingual tissue. 2 min per site. 8 min total.

YOu are suggesting 1 watt which obviously is defocussed or it will cut. It wouldnt hurt because patient has no sensation in those areas. Do you worry about thermal burning of the tissue which of course due to the parasthesia the patient cant tell when its hot.

I know and understand that NDYAG might be better for this case but I dont have that choice. Patient is looking for ANY improvement.

How do the Joules formula work………

is 1 watt =1000 J/min

Just wondering out loud what settings, how defocussed it should be and how to tell when enough is enough.

THanks for the advice, I have to phone the patient tomorrow….. I sense at .2w I may have been too low but I told him we may need to do it several times.

Thanks

Glenn