title: Critical appraisal. Pulpal temperature changes during power bleaching procedures.
abstract: Bleaching procedures are commonly used to enhance patient esthetics, either as a treatment means by itself or as part of a comprehensive multidisciplinary treatment plan. These three articles, two of which are outside the normally perused dental scientific literature, present different variations and results involved with in vitro pulpal temperature research. Interestingly, two of the articles include diode lasers, which have been suggested in other works to possibly reduce tissue inflammation.
authors.affiliation: Dental Residency Flight Commander, 81 Dental Squadron, Keesler AFB, Mississippi, USA. howard.roberts@us.af.mil
authors.forename: Howard W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.forename: Edward J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Swift