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Lasers are amazingly versatile! They can do everything from vaporizing a bulldozer from 2000 feet away to delicate surgery on eyes, as long as the doctor remem
by linsomniac 8y ago
Lasers are amazingly versatile! They can do everything from vaporizing a bulldozer from 2000 feet away to delicate surgery on eyes, as long as the doctor remembers to change the setting from "Bulldozer" to "Delicate". (Dave Barry)
- King-Aaron 8y agoAnecdotally, I was at a recent dental tech expo in Sydney and was allowed a chance to play with one of the dental lasers on display. The guy running the stand showed us how to peel the shell away from the membrane of an uncooked egg, before then winding the dial right up and letting me saw a lamb jaw bone in half with it. They really are pretty impressive devices.
- linsomniac 8y agoA decade or more I had a dentist that stayed towards the front of the technology curve, and he had an argon laser that he used for some fillings. My memory is that they were small fillings and he did it without pain killers, there was no whine from the drill, etc. I think he needed to "rough up" the hole that the laser made, which was done with the drill thing at low speed. I really liked him, but there was a combination of his location being inconvenient, and one of his dental techs was terrible, so I switched.