Bridge prep, extraction and bone relief

[Benchwmer]

Glenn,
When you get the variable pulse width Ng:YAG like Ron you won’t have to worry about recession or about using Gelfoam to clot.
Same results, but more natural.
Great case, hope your patient appreciates the results.
Enclosed is a similar case done with the PerioLase, photo immediatly after extraction, clot set w/ Nd:YAG 3.0W 20 Hz 635 usec
Jeff

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[Robert Gregg]

Hi Glenn,

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I hope that my cases help a little to stimulate you to see what is possible and that my mistakes help you in preventing to make the same ones…….lord knows I make enough of them.

Just ask Bob……..

Your case presentation are the best!  Your dedication  to share your cases so we can all appreciate what is possible in your hands, with technology we now have available to us is superb!  Your willingness to listen to what others have to contribute is testimony to your graciousness…..

Thanks for all you do to contribute to the advancement of technology and especially lasers in dentistry!!!

Your “mistakes” are nothing compared to those I have made over the years….

Bob

[Glenn van As]

Thanks Bob……..you know this board, you , Mark , Al, the two Ronnies (hey wasnt there a British comedy abou them) challenged me to become better.

Tom Haney from Continuum forced me to become better using the laser for soft tissue after only using it for restorations in the beginning.

I started using it for frenectomies, biopsies, gingival recontouring around healthy tissue on Class Vs and was very surprised at how it planed tissue away.  Totally different than my soft tissue lasers.

Then started looking into bone and by god it works nice and then started thinking out of the box.

Mark does that very well, so do you with Perio.

The scope just is a godsend for video taping and for documentation and I know that the high mags have force me to think about dentistry (and lasers) in a totally different light.

I appreciate all the friendships I have made through my scope indoctrinations and I hope that people out there enjoy the presentations for all they are.  Examples of some laser dentistry that can always be improved but at least is graphical (pun intended) and photographic in nature to give a truer sense of what was done.

I do it only one way and you all have shown me other ways of doing things and this is how my education improves.

I do hope that people realize that I dont post because of any holier than thou mentality but just to help improve my work and this photography thing is like a hobby to me…….

I had a patient ask me what I do with all the photos today and I told them…….some I keep some I just look at and delete……some I post………

Its a hobby and a fun one.

ALl the best to you and everyone here.

Thanks for the kind words……..they make it allworth while.

Glenn

PS here are some new pics of me with the scope to show the video camera that we are attaching to the scope that shoots 3 chip digital video and I am getting pretty good color and little vignetting these days.

Makes me very very happy.

Cya

Glenn

[Robert Gregg]

Glenn–

Very cool!

What type of 3 chip camera did you get? Should be good for live-streaming video?

I’ve never felt your posts were “holier than thou”, but I have never been “threatened” by what you share or post. Sometimes what you post is simply “better than thou”, and that may make some feel uncomfortable. Those that feel you are preaching versus teaching are those who feel insecure about themselves….and I don’t include anyone here in Ron’s forum.

Your contributions are extremely valuable and appreciated by me and many who are quiet. We are all lucky to have you here on this forum sharing your creativity and skills.

You are a credit to our profession!

Bob

[Glenn van As]

Hi Bob: Thanks…….I just worry that sometimes people get the wrong idea about why I post.

As for the three chip video camera. It is cool. I have waited til now to purchase a camera and this one hooks onto my Xmount adapter on the scope.

It now gives me digital video at 550 lines of resolution and excellent color

i am still learning how to get it perfect as at times it gives me some vignetting at the borders but all in all I am very happy with the Sony TRV 950.

Wait til CDA and you can see some cases I have done.

So far I have done a couple of cool cases with the erbium and one with the diode.

Nothing earth shattering but all in all fun.

Glenn

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