Patent ID: 11963831
Assignee: nan
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A dental procedure performed on target tissue in a client's mouth without anesthetic or anesthesia, said procedure comprising the steps of:
preconditioning the target tissue in the client's mouth using a laser device to produce analgesia in the target tissue, the laser device having a light guide adapted to deliver light to the target tissue, the laser device being constructed to produce light having a center wavelength in a wavelength range of 2750 nm to 11500 nm, to provide an energy fluence in an energy fluence range of 50 J/cm2 to 100 J/cm2, and to operate in a free running pulsed mode providing 60 μm bursts at a frequency of at least 50 Hz, said step of preconditioning including the steps of:
a) selecting a combination of average optical output power and preconditioning time to administer low level laser therapy to the target tissue in the client's mouth using the laser device;
b) adjusting the laser device to deliver light through the light guide of the laser device at the selected average optical output power; and
c) directing light delivered through the light guide of the adjusted laser device toward the target tissue in the client's mouth for the selected preconditioning time thereby providing analgesia to the target tissue in the client's mouth; and

removing oral tissue from the preconditioned target tissue in the client's mouth during said analgesia.