Treatment system and method

Abstract

Methods and apparatuses for treating a root canal in a tooth or hard and/or soft tissue within a tooth and surrounding tissues by pulsing a laser light into a reservoir, preferably after introducing liquid fluid into the reservoir, so as to disintegrate, separate, or otherwise neutralize pulp, plaque, calculus, and/or bacteria within and adjacent the fluid reservoir without elevating the temperature of any of the dentin, tooth, bones, gums, other soft tissues, other hard tissues, and any other adjacent tissue more than about 5° C.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A device for producing a photoacoustic wave effect used in medical and denial applications comprising a laser system, a laser fiber optic coupled to the laser system at a proximate end, said laser fiber optic having a flat, blunt and/or modified tip located at a distal end for the purpose of generating a photoacoustic wave.