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Biophotonics in Dentistry

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APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
Volume 12, Issue 9, Pages -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app12094254

Keywords

biophotonics; dentistry; laser; quantum dots; graphene; carbon nanotube

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This review paper focuses on the application of photonics in dentistry, including surgical applications, dental biomaterials, diagnosis, and treatments. Biophotonics is regarded as the application of photonics in medicine, while photonics is a technology for creating and connecting packets of light energy. The paper extensively discusses the main elements of photonics in dentistry.
The aim of this review paper is to concentrate on the use and application of photonics in dentistry. More than one hundred review and research articles were comprehensively analysed in terms of applications of photonics in dentistry, including surgical applications, as well as dental biomaterials, diagnosis and treatments. In biomedical engineering, various fields, such as biology, chemistry, material and physics, come together in to tackle a disease/disorder either as a diagnostic tool or an option for treatment. Engineers believe that biophotonics is the application of photonics in medicine, whereas photonics is simply a technology for creating and connecting packets of light energy, known as photons. This review paper provides a comprehensive discussion of its main elements, such as photoelasticity, interferometry techniques, optical coherence tomography, different types of lasers, carbon nanotubes, graphene and quantum dots.

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