[Possibilities for the use of lasers in dental surgery]

The use of the Nd:YAG laser in everyday oral surgery in patients with a hemorrhagic diathesis is reported. It proved successful in various hemorrhagic disorders mild forms of hemophilia A. The most essential including step forward seems to be that this may simplify the so far complicated treatment of this group of patients in a hospital, as it may enable outpatient therapy to be performed and considerably reduce the cost of treatment. In addition, the risk of hepatitis is smaller for all those patients in whom missing clotting factors have had to be substituted up to the present.