Abstract :
Dental caries as the most prevalent infectious disease
may affect the child population’s health, growth and development (1, 2). Accordingly, appropriate dental treatments are required to restore oral and subsequently general health.
Most child patients cope with in-office routine dental
treatments by receiving communicative behaviormanagement techniques. However, there are some indications for
general anesthesia where in-office services cannot be conducted (3, 4). On the other hand, there has always been
an attempt to use the technology of the day in pediatric
dentistry. One relevant advanced modality is laser therapy,
which can be suggested as an appropriate alternative of
conventional dentistry (5).
Laser therapy is well known as acceptable by child population due to its minimally invasive nature (6, 7). By using
laser, minimum amount of sound hard tissue is removed,
allows for conservative tooth preparation and low risk of
pulp exposure (8). There are several applications of various types of laser in pediatric dentistry (5). Laser is a useful
tool to diagnose and monitor carious lesions (7, 9, 10). In
the field of caries prevention, laser is used for the increasing of enamel surface resistance against acid attack, and
for the conditioning of tooth surface for sealant placement
and preventive resin restorations (5, 7). Another hard tissue application is for tooth restoration and pulp therapies
