Optical penetration models for practical prediction of femtosecond laser ablation of dental hard tissue.
Peter L WoodfieldAndrei V RodeDzung DaoVan Thanh DauSteve MaddenJames Laurence WalshHeiko SpallekLee WalshAndrew J SuttonOmar ZuaiterAlaa HabebTimothy R HirstLudovic RappPublished in: Lasers in surgery and medicine (2024)
The findings have value for planning automated dental restorative treatment using femtosecond lasers. The measurements and analysis give estimates of the optical properties of enamel and dentin irradiated with an infrared femtosecond laser at above-threshold fluence and the proposed models give insight into the physics of femtosecond laser processing of dental hard tissue.