Gingivoplasty Using Diode Laser

WUHAN, China - Sept. 21, 2020 - PRLog -- Etiology- It may be due to altered passive eruption of teeth, dentoalveolar extrusion, short or hyperactive lip muscles, short clinical crown, extensive subgingival caries, and subgingival tooth fractures at dentogingival junction. Treatment is performed to improve the dental esthetic by increasing the clinical crown height, thus it restores the normal dentogingival relationships.

Treatment modality-.Gingivoplasty is a procedure reshaping the gingival tissue around the teeth. It is not a very traumatic or invasive procedure and often results in healthy, natural looking gums. It can be performed by periodontal knife/scalpel/rotary coarse diamond burs/electrosurgery etc. Moreover these techniques are prone to side effects and complications like surgical trauma, postoperative pain, swelling, bleeding after excision, poor patient acceptance and coronal migration of the soft tissue margins is also seen during healing which makes it difficult for recording the finish lines after the tooth preparation.

After evolution of LASERS, conventional techniques are replaced by LASER Gingivoplasty. PIOON Laser offers different wavelengths like 450nm/810nm or 980nm. Out of which 450nm can used in non-contact/contact mode whereas 810nm and 980nm are used in contact mode in order to perform gingivoplasty. The most preferred among them is 450nm wavelength.

Fornaini C et al. in 2016 carried out the study to compare the effectiveness of the different laser wavelength and they concluded that use of wavelength 450nm gives a proper contouring to the gingiva with less thermal damage to the tissues which accelerates the healing time.

Conclusion- Dental Diode lasers (http://www.pioon.com/) is very safe and useful for esthetic soft tissue management and thus it increases patient's compliance and satisfaction.