Journal of Oral Sign
  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 3

Recent approach for the treatment of oral leukoplakia: Diode lasers - A case report

  • Author:
  • Shally Mahajan1,, Vipul Kumar Srivastava2
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 122 to 124

1Department Of Orthodontics, U.P. Dental College, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

2Department Of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, U.P. Dental College, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

*Correspondence DR Shally Mahajan Reader, Department Of Orthodontics, U.P. Dental College, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Online published on 12 June, 2012.

Abstract

Over the past two decades, many lasers have become available for clinical practice. They have been efficiently used in dentistry for incision, excision, and coagulation of intraoral soft tissues. The present case report is of a female patient who reported to the dental clinic with leukoplakia in the buccal mucosa and the excision of the same was done using 810 nm diode laser.

Keywords

Oral leukoplakia, Buccal mucosa, 810 nm diode lasers