Er:YAG laser is a laser of 2,940nm wavelength that is highly absorbed in water and hydroxyapatite, therefore, it is an all-tissue laser, suitable for treating hard and soft oral tissues.
As dentistry develops, adding a LiteTouch™ Er:YAG Dental Laser to every dental clinic transforms it into a High-Tech Laser Clinic. The LiteTouch™ Er:YAG Dental Laser is a groundbreaking, advanced technology that allows you to treat conditions you would not have been able to treat before, expanding your treatment offering and bringing new and recurring patients into your clinic.
One of the LiteTouch™ Er:YAG Dental Laser’s main advantages is that it can perform minimal invasive modern dentistry (MID) which the drill does not. The ablation of soft and hard tissues is very precise, treating just the surface of the tissue with no damage to the surrounding or underlying tissue. The laser’s antiseptic effect disinfects the remaining healthy tissue ensuring less post-operative complications.
LiteTouch™ Er:YAG Dental Laser has a unique and proprietary technology called “Laser-in-Handpiece”™ (LIH™) that produces the energy in the handpiece, in close proximity to the treated area. The Handpiece is connected to the end of the applicator, eliminating the need for a delivery system. With no delivery system, the full amount of energy is transmitted to the treated tissue, ensuring little to no energy loss.
LiteTouch™ Er:YAG Dental Laser is the smallest all-tissue laser, compared to other Er:YAG dental lasers. It is light-weight, easy to mobilize and can be stationed close to the dental chair, ready for use during all clinical procedures throughout the day.
Service wise, thanks to the LiteTouch™ “Laser-in-Handpiece”™ technology, almost any problem with the laser can be resolved by easily replacing the applicator, allowing the dentist to continue working with no downtime.
All of the above and so much more, make the LiteTouch™ Er:YAG Dental Laser the #1 best-selling all-tissue dental laser worldwide.
All-tissue lasers deliver the laser energy from the “body” of the laser device, to the treated tissue, through various delivery systems. These delivery systems include fiber optic cables or articulated arms. The fiber optic cable is fragile, cannot be bent and tends to break, while the articulated arm is cumbersome for use. The LiteTouch™ “Laser-in-Handpiece” technology houses the entire laser mechanism within the handpiece, producing the laser in very close proximity to the treated tissue. This direct delivery of the laser energy to the treated tissue, minimizing energy loss and enhances the laser’s cutting capabilities.
If you would like to offer the most advanced dental treatments and best standard of care to your patients, broaden your offering, increase patient flow and expedite your return on investment, you are ready for laser dentistry.
Light Instruments, and its distributors, offer theoretical and practical courses on the use of the LiteTouch™ Er:YAG Dental Laser to beginners, advanced users and specialists. The courses include hands-on sessions where participants can personally experience the use of the LiteTouch™ Er:YAG Dental Laser.
The full list of courses is presented on the Education page on our website, and it is being updated on a regular basis.
With the installation of the laser, an experienced LiteTouch™ Er:YAG Dental Laser user will come to your clinic to personally instruct you when taking the first steps using the laser.
Adding the LiteTouch™ Er:YAG Dental Laser to your clinic will turn it into a high-tech, high-end clinic, upgrade its visibility and differentiate it from regular dental clinics. The LiteTouch™ Er:YAG Dental Laser will expand your treatment offering allowing you to treat patients you would not have been able to treat before.
Treating with the LiteTouch will outperform your current treatments. For example, the treatment of caries. Using the LiteTouch, this treatment can be performed with little-to-no pain, it requires little-to-no anesthesia and causes no postoperative complications.
All of the above make the LiteTouch™ the preferred tool not only by dentists but also by patients, who will spread the word about the treatments done using this advanced dental laser technology, which will attract more your patients to your clinic and increasing your clinic’s revenues.
The advantages of the LiteTouch™ Er:YAG Dental Laser are:
• No drilling sounds or vibration
• Reduced need for anesthesia
• Preserves more of the healthy tooth structure
• Less need for antibiotics
• Fast recovery and healing
• Requires fewer visits to the dentist’s clinic
• Less post-treatment discomfort
Yes, they are. LiteTouch™ tips can be sterilized and autoclaved, for reuse.
Many papers and research show that laser irradiation of enamel and dentin do not cause thermal damage to the dentinal pulp. When lasing with the LiteTouch™, while using air/water spray, temperature increase of the pulp does not exceed the threshold of 5.5ºC. Some studies even showed that temperature increase inside the pulp during lasing was lower, compared to the temperature generated by rotary instruments.
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The speed of the hard tissue ablation depends on the experience of the treating dentist, the clinical condition, the patient and the amount of water inside the tissue. Usually, for an experienced laser user, there is no significant time difference in hard tissue removal. Moreover, in many caries treatments, there is no need for anesthesia, which also reduces the overall time of treatment.
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One of the main goals of the root canal treatment is to eliminate bacteria from the endodontic space. While it is almost impossible to achieve it with the conventional Chemo-mechanical treatment. With the new Endo Tip, LiteTouch™ Laser will better disinfect the endodontic space by removing the smear layer and disinfecting the main canal, the lateral canal and the dentinal tubules, eliminating most if not all of the bacteria from all the endodontic space.
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With the new LiteTouch™ Endo Tip, the energy is delivered in a circular manner proving 3-dimensional disinfection of the endodontic space, including the walls of the main canal, the lateral canal and the dentinal tubules.
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Yes. We recommend to remove calculus using our Chisel tip.
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Yes. LiteTouch™ Laser removes the granulation tissue and disinfects the periodontal pocket.
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Yes. The LiteTouch™ Laser disinfects 360º of the implant’s surfaces and also disinfects the surrounding bone and gingiva.
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The average time for veneer removal with the LiteTouch™ Laser is between 1-5 minutes, depending on the veneer’s width, the amount of cement and the operators experience.
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Yes, in many cases of caries removal the LiteTouch™ Laser can be used with no anesthesia, however, as any treatment, it depends on the child’s compliance.
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It is important to remember that during childhood, the perception of a dental treatment as a "positive experience” is not only important for the success of the treatment itself, but also to avoid a new generation of odontophobic patients.
Pediatric dentists should apply certain special behavioral approaches when treating children. One of the most important approaches is the TELL-SHOW-DO approach.
As demonstrated in different studies, the LiteTouch™ Laser, is very well accepted by children during the “SHOW” step, thanks to its unique design. The LiteTouch™ does not look like a medical tool and in a child’s memory, they recall a SPACE TOY (robot look-a-like).This allows the dentists to proceed to the next step - the “DO” step.
Moreover, the lack of vibration and the soft sound of the LiteTouch™ during treatments are factors that contribute to the success of laser treatments with children.
Last, but not least important is the opportunity to use the LiteTouch™ for many different treatments without injected anesthetic, which is much feared by children (and adults). This makes the LiteTouch™ Er:YAG Dental Laser the tool of choice for Pediatric Dentistry.
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For a less traumatic surgery and faster healing it is recommended to use an Er:YAG laser to perform frenulectomies. The Er:YAG laser ablates the tissue layer-by-layer, compared to the diode laser that tears the tissue . Moreover, when using the Er:YAG laser with water/air spray it is possible to control the amount of heat and bleeding for bio-stimulating the healing process.
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It is possible only when the blood vessels are of a small caliber, using the LiteTouch™ Gentle Treatment mode without air/water spray.
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Yes. It is possible and it is better to do it with air/water spray in order to avoid artifacts of the histological examination.
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