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Lasers : Redefining the Art & Science of Dentistry (Part I)
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Lasers is a light that has specific properties which are useful in medical and dental field. Whenever we talk about any equipment or treatment in particular say braces or aligners, it is pertaining to orthodontic specialty, a scaler, it relates to periodontics BUT rarely do we ever come across an equipment that is having multidimensional implementation. This series of articles is an attempt to write a technology, that is LASERS which has applications in every stream of dentistry.
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