Held right on the show floor, the Laser Workshop provided attendees with the opportunity to listen to world-class speakers while getting hands-on with lasers from various companies.
I sat in on one of the workshops, “Hands on Lasers for Dentists and Dental Hygienists,” during which Mitchell Lomke, DDS, and Angie Mott, RDH, went through case studies that demonstrated laser usage. Attendees were then able to get hands-on experience doing a variety of dental procedures for both soft- and hard-tissue applications.
Aside from just being really cool to see lasers such as DenMat’s SOL and NV Microlaser in use (as I had never seen a laser being use on a cow jaw), it was also really neat to see attendees—both dentists and hygienists—walk away with a recommended tool guide of sorts, courtesy of Dr. Lomke, that any clinician can use as a shorthand for laser usage in their practice.
