These days, however, technology has progressed to the point that these old-fashioned tools are often not needed. Now ,dentists and hygienists can use laser technology to care for your teeth and gums.

Fiber lasers use an optical fiber doped with rare-earth elements (erbium, ytterbium, neodymium, etc.) as their optical gain source (the part that produces the laser's light). They emit high ...

At the Nonlinear Photonics 2010 conference, Nikolai Chichkov and colleagues from Hannover, Germany, described an erbium-doped fibre laser made ... medicine and dentistry. They may enable a variety ...

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At UAB Continuing Dental Education, we are proud to provide outstanding educational programs for our community. Our programs are a service that UAB School of Dentistry makes available to meet the CE ...

Even some of the simplest changes in a dental practice can save huge amounts of energy. This collection of articles from across the BDJ Portfolio explores sustainability and dentistry.

World-renowned faculty and highly skilled staff advance oral health locally and globally at the UAB School of Dentistry. Our faculty span an impressive range of disciplines and interests, while our ...

Routine dentist visits are paramount to maintaining a healthy smile. And with a dental insurance plan, you can avoid paying hundreds or even thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket costs.

When we first heard of [Ildar Rakhmatulin’s] plan to use OpenCV on a Raspberry Pi to detect mosquitos and then zap them with a 1 watt laser, we thought it was sort of humorous. However ...

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