Treatment of dental root fracture by medium energy CO2 laser and DP-bioactive glass paste. Part. II: Compositional, structure, and phase changes of DP-bioglass paste after exposed to CO2 laser.
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Fractured teeth are difficult to treat effectively. Currently, such as root fractures are usually treated by full-coverage restoration, root amputation, or tooth extraction. If the fusion of tooth fracture by laser were possible, it could offer a different therapy to repair fracture teeth. We tried to use a developed DP-bioactive glass paste to fuse or bridge the tooth crack line by a medium energy continuous-wave CO2 laser. The present report was focused on the phase transformation and rescrystallization of DP-bioactive paste during expose to the CO2 laser. The materials will examine by means of XRD, FTIR, DTA/TGA, and SEM. From the study, we could expect that the temperature increase due to laser irradiation must be over than 900 degrees C and the DP-bioactive glass paste could be melted in a short period of time after irradiation. In the study, we successfully developed a DP-bioactive glass paste which could form a melting glass within minutes after exposed to a medium energy density continuous-wave CO2 laser. The paste will be used to bridge the enamel or dentine surface crack by the continuous-wave CO2 laser in the near future.
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| Authors | Y C Tseng, F H Lin, C P Lin, W H Lan, J D Liao |
| Journal | Biomedical sciences instrumentation (Biomed Sci Instrum) Vol. 35 Pg. 285-90 ( 1999) ISSN: 0067-8856 [Print] United States |
| PMID | 11143363 (Publication Type: Journal Article) |
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