Diode Dental Laser

Root-canal studies assess diode lasers as monotherapy for disinfection. Peri-implantitis studies assess them alone or alongside mechanical debridement.

Root-canal disinfection with a diode laser has no standard protocol. The evidence also has moderate to high risk of bias and high heterogeneity.

Conventional root-canal disinfection uses irrigation protocols. For peri-implantitis, conventional treatment was mechanical debridement, and the review could not support diode-laser use over it.

The proposed role is additional or alternative disinfection, not a single settled protocol that applies to every root canal or implant problem.

For peri-implantitis, the review could not support diode-laser use and called for clinical trials with long-term follow-up.