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ReviewMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2021

The Use of Lasers in Dental Materials: A Review.

Emmanouil-George C Tzanakakis, Evangelos Skoulas, Eudoxie Pepelassi, Petros Koidis, Ioannis G Tzoutzas

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Review in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Emmanouil-George C TzanakakisDepartment of Operative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Evangelos SkoulasInstitute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, 70013 Heraklion, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-8926-048X
Eudoxie PepelassiDepartment of Periodontology, School of Dentistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Petros KoidisDepartment of Prosthodontics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Ioannis G TzoutzasDepartment of Operative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-6249-7476

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lasers have been well integrated in clinical dentistry for the last two decades, providing clinical alternatives in the management of both soft and hard tissues with an expanding use in the field of dental materials. One of their main advantages is that they can deliver very low to very high concentrated power at an exact point on any substrate by all possible means. The aim of this review is to thoroughly analyze the use of lasers in the processing of dental materials and to enlighten the new trends in laser technology focused on dental material management. New approaches for the elaboration of dental materials that require high energy levels and delicate processing, such as metals, ceramics, and resins are provided, while time consuming laboratory procedures, such as cutting restorative materials, welding, and sintering are facilitated. In addition, surface characteristics of titanium alloys and high strength ceramics can be altered. Finally, the potential of lasers to increase the adhesion of zirconia ceramics to different substrates has been tested for all laser devices, including a new ultrafast generation of lasers.

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lasersinteringsurface micro-topographysurface texturingtitaniumzirconia

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PMID34207048
PMCPMC8234179

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