title: Diode laser application in soft tissue oral surgery.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Diode laser with wavelengths ranging from 810 to 980 nm in a continuous or pulsed mode was used as a possible instrument for soft tissue surgery in the oral cavity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Diode laser is one of laser systems in which photons are produced by electric current with wavelengths of 810, 940 and 980nm. The application of diode laser in soft tissue oral surgery has been evaluated from a safety point of view, for facial pigmentation and vascular lesions and in oral surgery excision; for example frenectomy, epulis fissuratum and fibroma. The advantages of laser application are that it provides relatively bloodless surgical and post surgical courses with minimal swelling and scarring. We used diode laser for excisional biopsy of pyogenic granuloma and gingival pigmentation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The diode laser can be used as a modality for oral soft tissue surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine, Dental Faculty, Guilan University of Medical Sciences,Gilan,Iran.
authors.forename: Ehsan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Azma
authors.affiliation: Laser Application in Medical Sciences Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Nassimeh
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Safavi
keywords: laser; oral surgery; soft tissue