Dr. Nichole Cauwels
Dr. Kendra Zuercher
6100 W. 41st St. Suite 101
Sioux Falls, SD 57106
605-361-1900

Laser Technology

 

Hard Tissue

  • All classes cavity preparations 
  • Caries removal 
  • Hard tissue surface roughening and etching 
  • Tooth preparation to obtain access to root canals 
  • Root canal preparation 
  • Root canal debridement and cleaning

Bone

  • Cutting, shaving, and contouring osseous tissues 
  • Osseous crown lengthening 
  • Osteoplasty and ostectomy
  • Apicoectomy – including cutting a window access to the apex 
  • Root end preparation for retrofill 
  • Removal of pathological and hyper plastic tissues from around the apex

Periodontal

  • Full, partial, and split thickness flaps 
  • Laser curettage 
  • Laser removal of diseased soft tissue within the periodontal pocket
  • Removal of granulation tissue from bony defects 
  • Sulcular debridement to improve clinical indices such as gingival bleeding, probe depth, and attachment loss

Soft Tissue

  • Excisional and incisional biopsies 
  • Exposure of unerupted teeth 
  • Fibroma removal 
  • Frenectomy and frenotomy 
  • Gingival troughing for crown impressions 
  • Gingivectomy and gingivoplasty 
  • Hemostasis and coagulation 
  • Implant recovery 
  • Abscess incision and drainage 
  • Operculectomy 
  • Papillectomy 
  • Pulpotomy and pulp extirpation 
  • Pulpotomy as an adjunct to root canal therapy 
  • Soft tissue crown lengthening 
  • Treatment of herpetic and aphthous ulcers 
  • Vestibuloplaty

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