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The safe removal of water spray dispersed laser plume is not covered by ANSI Z136.3 Standard for Safe Use of Lasers in Health Care (2018 Edition)

By Peter Vitruk, PhD, MInstP ANSI Z136.3 Standard for Safe Use of Lasers in Health Care (2018 Edition) defines laser plume as one of the non-beam laser hazards since it

May 27, 2020

Soroush Zaghi, MD, Interviewed at the ALSC Symposium

We invite you to watch our interview with Soroush Zaghi, MD, an ENT, sleep apnea specialist, and medical director of the Breathe Institute in Los Angeles, CA. He lectures internationally

June 24, 2019

Richard Baxter, DMD, MS Interviewed Video

Dr. Richard Baxter’s Thoughts on Laser Frenectomies and the ALSC

We invite you to watch our interview with Richard Baxter, DMD, MS, the lead author of the best-selling book “Tongue-Tied: How A Tiny String Under the Tongue Impacts Nursing, Speech,

June 14, 2019

Hot Glass Tip Diode Frenectomies ARE NOT Laser Frenectomies

During diode laser soft-tissue surgeries, both the excessive thermal necrosis (from the heat emanating from approx. 1,000° Celsius charred hot glass (!) tip) and the excessive bleeding (from cuts by cold glass (!) tip that lost the char) can...

June 3, 2019

Soft-Tissue Cutting with Hot Glass Tip Diodes

Many dentists are skeptical about lasers in the age of Physics-denying “dental laser CDE” and “dental lasers” that are implant-melting-capable, bright-plasma-flash-blinding, or charred-ink-on-the-glass-tip-burning, and so...

December 6, 2017

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