Introduction:

In accordance with the scientific and technological progress of society, new and improved techniques are being implemented in dental practice that are aimed at offering effective, faster, and more conservative treatments that reduce the levels of fear and anxiety in patients.

Objective:

To interpret the benefits of using laser therapy in the dental field by means of a review of the literature.

Methods:

This was an exploratory study, aided by hermeneutics to interpret the literature review. It was observational, cross-sectional, descriptive, and retrospective. The searches were carried out in the following databases: Lilacs, Pubmed, Sciencedirect and randomized clinical studies were searched.

Results:

252 articles were found, of which 7 were selected according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Favorable results were found on laser in the specialties of surgery, endodontics, periodontics, and oral pathology, in comparison with therapies considered as gold standard. thus, demonstrating that the use of laser is better or equally effective than conventional treatments, since it reduces the level of time in interventions, in surgical treatments it avoids bleeding and the use of suture in some cases, besides being well accepted for patients because it also avoids the presence of pain when applying it.

Conclusions:

Using laser for dental interventions an improvement can be obtained or at least the same result as applying conventional techniques, which proves that its use is feasible.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )