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Dr. Everett Heringer was one of the first dentists in North Dakota to use the Waterlase® dental laser for soft tissue treatments. This tool has revolutionized patient care by making procedures more accurate and more comfortable, while shortening recovery periods. We can use dental lasers for a range of treatments, from gum contouring to deep pocket cleaning.
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I was one of the first
dentists in the state,
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in western North Dakota,
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to have what they call
Waterlase Laser Dentistry.
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What that is, it's a laser
that activates water,
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and it makes the water
be the way it works.
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You don't add direct contact
to laser at all to any of the tissue.
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It works through
the principle of ablation.
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I use it a lot in my office
for soft tissue contour,
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and I use it for gum lift.
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If somebody has a real gummy smile,
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you can use my laser,
the water laser, to lift that gum up,
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and it will just make
that gum look so nice.
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I can use it if a crown
is broken off to the gum line,
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and you don't want to do an implant,
and you want to save the tooth,
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then you can use the laser
to clean some of that excess tissue
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around the root that remains
or the tooth that remains,
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and you can restore
that tooth with a crown.
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Whenever you place a crown,
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lots of times there is inflammation
around the crown,
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so what the laser does,
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it helps your tissues
and the crowns to adapt better,
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better fitting crown,
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and also the healing process
is a lot faster with a laser.
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It's all non-surgical,
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and the patients really benefit
from using laser dentistry
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as opposed traditional
surgical dentistry in some areas,
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when you don't have to do it.
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In my office, we use that laser,
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and we use the other laser,
called a diode.
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The diode laser we use
in the hygiene department,
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and that's what the diode laser does.
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You can go use it
in the hygiene department for,
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we called it,
Laser Assisted Periodontal Therapy.
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What it does, it'll go
subgingivally down into the pockets,
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and it'll get any granulation tissue out,
and any infection and inflammation out,
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and it gives you a quicker,
non-surgical result.
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Valuable, valuable too,
in the hygiene department.
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That's, I think, what's really
one of the big things
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that separates me
from the other offices.
