LASERS IN DENTISTRY - Practical text book

It is with pleasure that I preface the book by Dr. CAPRIOGLIO Claudia and VITALE Marina Consuelo, result of a methodical and uninterrupted work since more than ten years. VITALE Marina, become today international boss in the field of lasers in pediatric dentistry, fact honour with teaching that we inculcated to her. She learned the fundamental ones from this technology thanks to her father, Giovanni VITALE, doctor dermatologist in Italy at Saronno, and his higher education in France at Paris, the Faculty of Dental Surgery Paris-V under the authority of Professor Robert WEILL and the University Paris-XII in the Laboratories of lasers of Professor Sigrid AVRILLIER. Her research tasks led to the improvement of the knowledge of the effects of a great number of radiations, various wavelengths, on hard mineral dental tissues. They were presented in the great international congresses, in the United States, in Israel, in South America and in Japan, and were in particular published by International Society for Laser in Dentistry under the aegis of Professors L. POWELL, J. FRAME, I. ISHIKAWA, S. LOH and F. MELCER-DAUCHY whose scientific contributions, with the important world projection of the lasers in dentistry, were decisive for that this technology is definitely recognized and applied. This book on lasers in dental daily practice is the sum of works of the new teams which constituted them-selves on each continent, in the large university towns and it is the real sign of the vitality of this technology in the discipline. This international collaboration proves that micro-dentistry laser, like micro-oral surgery laser, painless, touch less, non-invasive and sterilizing can be applied in dental daily practice, general or paediatrics, for the largest good of our patients. Doctor Jacques Melcer Former Professor of the Paris-V University Member of the Academy of Dental Surgery President of I.S.L.D. 1988-1990 (International Society Lasers in Dentistry)