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Laser-Assisted Implant
Dentistry

A New Age of minimally invasive implant and soft tissue surgery is HERE!

Deka Laser 2-1

Laser-Assisted Implant Dentistry

Incisions for Traditional Implant Surgery

 

Replace your scalpel with a DEKARM Smart™ COLaser pulsed by UltraSpeed™ and revolutionize your implant practice. Maintain precision and reduce bleeding during the procedure while also improving patient comfort and enhancing healing post operatively.

  • Bloodless surgical field
  • Reduced surgical time
  • Decontamination while cutting
  • Minimal post op swelling
  • Greatly reduced post operative pain
  • Significantly less myofibroblasts and scar tissue formation
  • Scalpel is easier to use in many areas of the mouth 

Incision for sinus lift with DEKA surgical handpiece with 120 mirrored tip

Incision for sinus lift

Virtually bloodless surgical field after DEKA CO2 laser incision

Virtually bloodless surgical field

 

The new age of minimally invasive soft tissue surgery is HERE!

Tissue Punch for Flapless Implant Surgery

Achieve the ultimate minimally-invasive implant surgery by utilizing the DEKA Smart CO2 laser for tissue punches.

Gently sculpt tissue for ideal emergence profile on immediate temporaries

  • Preservation of surrounding keratinized tissue
  • Minimally invasive approach
  • Little to no post operative swelling
  • No need for sutures

Initial tissue punch

Soft Tissue Surgery - Tissue Punch

Completing the osteotomy

Soft Tissue Surgery - Completing the Osteotomy

Implant in place

Soft Tissue Surgery - Implant in Place

Immediate temporization

Soft Tissue Surgery - Immediate Temporization

Implant Uncovering


With the proprietary UltraSpeed pulse, the DEKA Smart CO2 laser preserves surrounding tissue during implant uncovering and enables immediate impressions with proper emergence profile - saving you and your patient valuable chair time.

  • Minimally invasive approach
  • Immediate impression at the time of uncovering
    • Saves steps
    • Predictable soft tissue levels
  • Opportunity to sculpt interproximal tissue and develop proper emergence profile
  • Minimizes patient post operative discomfort

Locate the implant for stage 2 surgery

Implant Uncovering - Locate the implant for stage 2 surgery

Begin implant uncovering with handpiece with 120 mirror 

Implant Uncovering - Uncover implant using handpiece with 120 mirror

Place healing collar or take impression at stage two surgery to save chair time

Implant Uncovering - Place healing collar

Peri-Implantitis Treatment

 

Rescue failing implants otherwise requiring extraction, bone grafting and replacement by decontaminating the implant surface with the DEKA Smart CO2 laser. It’s a simple way to enhance both patient care and implant practice profitability.

  • Decontaminates the implant surface
  • Does not transmit heat into the implant
  • Does not damage or surface modifications to the implant
  • Results in new bone formation on the implant
  • Saves patients from extraction, bone grafting & replacement surgeries

Initial radiograph

Peri-Implantitis Treatment - Initial Radiograph

Decontamination with DEKA Smart CO2 laser

Peri-Implantitis Treatment - Decontaminate with DEKA Smart CO2 laser

60 Day post operative radiograph

Peri-Implantitis Treatment - 60 Day post operative radiograph

Why DEKA?

Powered by UltraSpeed

DEKA’s proprietary UltraSpeed pulse combines power and gentleness for quick ablation with no charring - just a small band of coagulation that seals blood vessels, nerve endings and lymphatics

With a peak power of 150W, the DEKA Smart CO2 has a very quick and precise ablation of soft tissue.  The UltraSpeed pulse creates a tail of energy after the short but intense peak pulse, designed with enough thermal relaxation time, to allow the surrounding tissue to dissipate the heat and go back to rest before the next pulse.

 

power graph

For example, at 100 hertz (100 pulses per second) and Level 10 (10% duty cycle) the laser is only on (t-on) for 10% of each of the 100 pulses and off (-off) for 90% of each of the 100 pulses. The time off provides the thermal relaxation time needed by the irradiated tissue to lose 50% of the delivered energy (heat), without any heat conduction to the surrounding tissues.

Why CO2?

The Erbium laser (2,940nm) has the highest co-efficient of absorption in water of any of the lasers used in dentistry, however there is so much absorption that there is no residual heat energy for coagulation in soft tissue. CO2 has a 98% absorption rate in soft tissue and the remaining 2% provides the lateral thermal spread that seals blood vessels, seals nerve endings and seals lymphatics.

 

CO2 graph

For any laser to be therapeutic it must be well absorbed by the target tissue. Since oral soft tissue is 90-95% water, CO2 (10,600nm) is the preferred wavelength for soft tissue procedures because of its superior co-efficient characteristics into water and excellent homeostasis properties.CO2 ablates tissue very efficiently and virtually no energy penetrates beyond 0.1mm17 while ND:YAG (1,064nm), with Melanin as its main chromophore, has a penetration depth of 3-4mm.

810mm diode laser cut in soft tissue.  Scale:  1.5mm

810mm diode laser cut in soft tissue

DEKA Smart CO2 laser pulsed by UltraSpeed incision in soft tissue.  Scale:  1mm

DEKA Smart CO2 pulsed by UltraSpeed incision