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Treatment of cervical dentin hypersensitivity using neodymium: Yttrium–aluminum–garnet laser. Clinical evaluation
Author(s) -
Ciaramicoli Márcia T.,
Carvalho Rubens C. R.,
Eduardo Carlos P.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
lasers in surgery and medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.888
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1096-9101
pISSN - 0196-8092
DOI - 10.1002/lsm.10232
Subject(s) - dentin hypersensitivity , medicine , dentistry , dentin , nd:yag laser , delayed hypersensitivity , laser , physics , optics , antigen , immunology
Background and Objective The incidence of cervical dentinal hypersensitivity is related to the high number of non‐carious cervical lesions. This clinical research was developed in order to evaluate the Nd:YAG laser treatment of cervical dentin hypersensitivity after attempting the removal and control of etiologic factor after two different stimuli. Study Design/Materials and Methods Twenty patients participated in this study in a total of 145 teeth, where 104 received the Nd:YAG laser treatment and 41 remained as control. Results The results showed that there was statistically significant reduction of hypersensitivity as for the groups that received the treatment with Nd:YAG laser, as for the control teeth. However, the reduction of cervical dentinal hypersensitivity was statistically greater when there was the association of the removal of etiologic factors with the application of Nd:YAG laser. Conclusions We concluded that the laser irradiation was effective in the treatment of cervical dentin hypersensitivity after 6 months. Lasers Surg. Med. 33:358–362, 2003. © 2003 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.