Temperature Changes Resulting from a Gaalas Laser in the Decontamination of a Failing Dental Implant (Clinical Report‪)‬

Introduction and Related Research Lasers, an acronym for Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation, have an extensive history that is still being developed today. The first conception of the laser was by Newton in 1704, when he stated that laser light was not like ordinary light. He said that it was an organized beam of particles. The earliest operating laser was created by Theodore Maiman on May 16, 1960 at the Hughes Research Laboratory in California. The next revolution was semi-conductor lasers, first designed by Robert Hall and his associates at the General Electric laboratories in Schenectady, New York in 1962. "Diode lasers now involve many different materials and forms, can be quite small and inexpensive, and are by far the most common type of laser. They are used, for example, in supermarket bar-code readers, in optical-fiber communications, and in laser pointers." [1].