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March 25, 2013
Articles about photomedicine applications in dental and oral health.
Trials and Errors
Trials & Errors Science is based upon trials and errors. Yes, even errors give serendipitous results; the discovery of penicillin is just one of them. Science starts with ideas, but has to be confirmed. Too often ideas are commercialized before read more
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Bisphosphonates and Lasers
Bisphosphonates and lasers Bisphosphonates have been introduced to treat osteoporosis. These substances can be administered orally or intravenously. The bisphosphonates have a high affinity to hydroxyapatite and are accumulated in bony structures. During bone remodeling, osteoclasts are exposed to read more
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Low Level Laser and Antibiotic Resistance
Low level laser and antibiotic resistance Jan Tunér “Antibiotic resistance is a type of drug resistance where a microorganism is able to survive exposure to an antibiotic” (Wikipedia). Some of the readers of this article would probably not be alive read more
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Dosing Made Easy!
Therapeutic lasers made easy for the dentist Jan Tunér DDS My colleagues often tell me that the use of laser phototherapy (LPT) is so complicated and that they do not understand all the difficult terms and parameters involved. But if read more
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Is laser therapy a useful tool for treating tinnitus?
Is laser therapy a useful tool for treating tinnitus? Jan Tunér DDS Abstract: Low level laser therapy (LLLT) has been suggested as a treatment modality for reducing tinnitus. The scientific literature is ambiguous and the suggested treatment- and laser parameters differ read more
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Evidence-Based Therapies and Their Pitfalls
Evidence based therapies and their pitfalls By Jan Tunér Many systematic reviews on LLLT fail to understand the importance of analysing the actual laser parameters, thus mixing apples and bananas. One systematic review overcoming such shortcomings is the excellent review read more
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Burning Mouth Syndrome
The Burning Mouth Syndrome and LLLT – a useful concept? By Jan Tunér Burning Mouth Syndrome (BMS) is a common disease but still a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge for clinicians. Despite many studie, its nature remains obscure and controversial; nowadays read more
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Recommended Reading…
Laser Dentistry LINK: Laser Jahr: 2010 Ausgabe: 01 (Translated: “Laser Year: 2010 Issue: 01″) read more
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Issue 1, Paper 1, 2012
Paper 1/2012 J Orofac Pain. 2010 Summer;24(3):293-7. The anti-inflammatory effect of low-level laser therapy on experimentally induced inflammation of rabbit temporomandibular joint retrodiscal tissues. Kucuk BB, Oral K, Selcuk NA, Toklu T, Civi OG. Department of Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, read more
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