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  • July 5, 2003 at 3:48 pm in reply to: Tip Activation #10813

    Kenneth Luk
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    Hi Vince and David,
    I’ve been that monkey since I joined this forum. Great game, isn’t it?

    Ron,
    What settings are you using with your diode on these pockets?
    I thought you’d be using your Periolase for this treatment. Do you just want to try it out?

    Ken

    (Edited by Kenneth Luk at 11:56 am on July 5, 2003)

    July 5, 2003 at 4:41 pm in reply to: Tip Activation #10804

    Anonymous
    Spectator

    Ken,
    I am using the PeriolaseMVP7 ( this olden days post -Sept 02- just got reactivated by vince) and will not go back to it . My diode is ‘parked’ in my last operatory for my hygienists to use for whitening and for an associate (soon to be a reality, I hope) to use.

    When I was using it for perio I used 1.0CW, activated tip, to deepithelialize and 1.8W 50/50 pulsed, non activated tip, for decontamination.

    Finally, I hope you’re  feeling like…

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    …is short lived. Jump in and fire away with the questions as I’m sure others or myself may be wondering about the same thing.

    Rained has stopped, time to get back out on the lake-have a great weekend everyone!

    July 6, 2003 at 1:39 am in reply to: Biolase Investment #9401

    Swpmn
    Spectator

    Letter I received last week:

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    Al

    July 6, 2003 at 11:40 am in reply to: Continuous vs. pulsed ????? #7891

    Kenneth Luk
    Spectator

    David,
    I’m almost banned from logging on!
    I’ pretty good at hearing the faintest advancing movement to my direction! Good Luck!

    Ron,
    you must be able to type with lightening speed OR your wife is very much occupied. Very detailed answers!

    Ken

    July 7, 2003 at 12:58 am in reply to: Cerac 3D #6431

    sampat13421
    Spectator

    If bonding technique is good, and occlusion is correct, then sensitivity is essentially a non-issue. Overall success rate and patient satisfaction is quite high. The patients love the fact that they don’t have to come back for a second visit.

    I have not sent any single unit restorations to the lab in almost a year: I do stain and glaze the anterior crowns.

    If I can think of any negatives, then it would be the learning curve, although with the new software it is much, much less.

    Sam

    July 7, 2003 at 11:31 pm in reply to: Continuing Education #3039

    Anonymous
    Spectator

    Anyone else going?rock.gif

    July 7, 2003 at 11:34 pm in reply to: WCLI East Coast #8297

    2thlaser
    Spectator

    I am. I look forward to meeting anyone who is going from this board, let me know!
    Mark

    July 8, 2003 at 12:32 am in reply to: Gingivectomy with waterlase #9999

    dkimmel
    Spectator

    Mickey, I also am rather new at this laser stuff. Hopefully some of the others will jump in here if I am wrong or have other ideas.
    The answer is yes and no. I find at the lower power settings .25- .50 with 11%Air and no water – I often touch the tissue. It is like pealing the layers of the tissue off. Different tissue will requiring changing your settings. The more fibrous the higher the power setting and the more delicate the tissue the lower the power setting. You will know this by charring. If the tissue chars  defocus and no longer touch the tissue or decrease your power and continue to wipe the tissue away.
    If you defocus at these settings it will seem to take forever to remove the tissue.  It will also seem to take forever if you stay at .25 wt and wipe the tissue away. I only do this if it is a small area.
    If you increase your watts and increase Air and water you will get a faster removal of tissue. You will also get  a greater chance of bleeding and a punched out appearence of the tissue.
    I have just started doing this a little different. I now use 5.5w with 75% A and 40% W with a G4 tip defoused.  Defoused is key. You do not want to touch the tissue. You want to start out at about 15mm and work into about 10mm. With maginfication you will just start to see when the tissue is being removed. I no longer get a punched out look. It is a smoother looking reduction, nice and even. It is faster as more surface area is being removed in a defoused  mode. Hemostatis is the best I have had so far.
    DAvid

    (Edited by dkimmel at 8:34 pm on July 7, 2003)

    July 8, 2003 at 12:47 am in reply to: WCLI East Coast #8289

    dkimmel
    Spectator

    How do you guys find the time???
    This year has killed me being out of the office. I just convinced my wife to let us spend the last days of our vacation at the Microdentitry meeting! I would be pushing my luck to ask if we could spend the first few days of our vacation at the WCLI meeting! Unless – you know if the have any gardens in Atlantic City?
    David

    July 8, 2003 at 1:39 am in reply to: Gingivectomy with waterlase #9998

    Anonymous
    Spectator

    Ok guys,

    My turn for a question (or 2).

    If you are using the er,cr:YSGG and are touching tissue, are you not inside the focal point and thus defocused and doing the same thing as being defocused at a point further out from the focal point (say 1mm before vs. 1 mm past focal point)?

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    It seems to me that the key to Mickey’s question is -how do you want to remove the tissue- abalate or incise? and the answer to that question determines the positioning of the tip.

    Finally, I’d like some input as to whether anyone seems to find their tips are less efficient after touching tissue?

    July 8, 2003 at 2:36 am in reply to: WCLI East Coast #8304

    Swpmn
    Spectator

    Me. We should have an LDF get together for those of us going.

    I only have the online schedule which isn’t very specific. Do the lectures run simultaneously so that you have to choose one in the AM and one in the PM? Are the “Advanced and Specialty Programs” hands on sessions?

    Al

    July 8, 2003 at 3:41 am in reply to: WCLI East Coast #8302

    Glenn van As
    Spectator

    I would love to go but dont think it would be a good idea yet , and also am interested in going to the microdentistry meeting here in Vancouver…..WINNER OF THE 2010 WINTER OLYMPIC BID……..

    YEE HAW

    now back to you regular programming.

    glenn

    July 8, 2003 at 4:35 am in reply to: Bad taste in my mouth #10220

    Ian
    Spectator

    Hi Glenn, et al
    First time postin here. As far as I know, when my Argon was on the fritz, Brian the tech sent to repair it, showed me a set of filters at the laser head . When we push the selector, we choose a filter and get our wavelength. The HGM unit we have do not operate in multiline mode nor do they use different currents, as far as I know.
    How did you cut that core. They are tough as hell, although not as tough as In-ceram

    July 8, 2003 at 12:34 pm in reply to: Cerac 3D #6428

    marc andre gagnon
    Spectator

    I AM A CEREC USER SINCE 4 YEARS AND A LASER USER SINCE 2 YEARS .YOU CAN USE ERBIUM FOR ETCHING THE TOOTH AFTER THE PREPARATION OF THE TOOTH FOR DESENSIBILISATION BEFORE CEMENTATION. THE MOST IMPORTANT LASER FOR ME IS THE DIODE 980 FOR THROUGHING BEFORE TO TAKE IMPRESSION WITH CEREC

    July 8, 2003 at 1:26 pm in reply to: WCLI East Coast #8298

    2thlaser
    Spectator

    Glenn,
    You are always invited, and the timing is ok….Congrats on the Olympiad, I am making my reservations to stay with you now…in writting, so that no one else gets dibbs! See you at the WCM!

    Al, the lectures are all back to back, but the specialty classes are where you will have to choose lecture or class…mine, the advanced restorative with Stu, is part lecture part hands on. Hope that helps!
    Mark

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