title: [Lasers in dentistry 1. What is special about lasers?].
abstract: Diagnosis and treatment with lasers is becoming widely spread in dentistry. This article is an introduction to a series of articles that deal with the many dental applications of lasers. The article contains a summary of presently used lasers. It also describes the pertinent features of laser radiation: parallelism of the beam and narrow line shape in the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation. Finally, it summarizes the relevant processes of interaction of laser radiation with tissue: scattering, absorption, fluorescence and frequency-doubling.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: ten Bosch
mesh_terms: D003762:Dental Instruments; D003813:Dentistry / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D053685:Laser Therapy; D007834:Lasers
vernacular_title: Lasers in de tandheelkunde 1. Wat is er bijzonder aan lasers?