TY - JOUR 
A1 - Leco Berrocal, María Isabel
AU - Martínez González, José María
AU - Donado Rodríguez, Manuel
T1 - Clinical and radiological course in apicoectomies with the Erbium: YAG LASER
Y1 - 2007
SN - 16984447

UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11268/5450
AB - A study is made of the efficacy of the Erbium: YAG laser in granulomatous periapical lesions, based on clinical and radiographic controls. The study comprised a series of 45 patients amenable to periapical surgical treatment of incisors, canines and premolars. A conventional surgical technique was used, with silver amalgam retrograde filling and irradiation of the bone defect and remnant root cement with the Erbium: YAG laser. Clinical and radiographic controls were made during 24 months, assessing the absence of symptoms and the presence of pain, swelling or fistula and ossification of the lesions, respectively. The clinical course proved asymptomatic in 95.5% of the cases. As regards remodeling of the bone cavity, 77.7% had completed ossification after 24 months, 13.3% were in an advanced stage of ossification and 4.5% in an intermediate stage, while 4.5% showed treatment failure. In conclusion, the combination of silver amalgam and irradiation with the Erbium: YAG laser in periapical surgery showed a very high clinical success rate, with a 77.7% bone cavity remodeling rate after 24 months.

KW - Dientes-Enfermedades
KW - Boca-Cirugía
KW - Odontología
LA - eng
ER -